The US Coast Guard (USCG) repatriated 27 migrants to Cuba this Tuesday,
The return was made after intercepting 3 separate illegal immigration voyage vessels near Key West, the USCG of the Seventh District said in X.
Irregular and illegal maritime migration is dangerous and often life-threatening, they warned.
Last Friday, the USCG rescued 34 Cubans who were clinging to a boat which sank nine miles off the Florida Keys.
The incident occurred when the immigrants were spotted by a boater who notified the authorities and remained at the scene until rescuers arrived, the Local 10 channel reported.
The Cubans were around the sunken boat secured with some ropes, and according to their first statements they had been at sea for at least two days.
At the end of October, for its part, three Cuban rafters made landfall in the Florida Keys, where after disembarking they were detained by a crew of the United States Border Patrol (USBP).
In the largest irregular exodus from Cuba in the history of the United States, 4,210 Cubans have been returned to the island from January to August, after being intercepted during their sea crossings, according to official sources of the Cuban regime.
Raftsmen who are intercepted at sea are returned to Cuba in their entirety and are not later eligible to legally immigrate to the United States.
Meanwhile, in statistics released by the US Department of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), it was known that 200,287 Cubans entered that country by its land borders in the recently concluded fiscal year 2023 (FY2023).
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