Images of the 14 Cuban rafters are released after making landfall in Florida

Images of 14 Cuban migrants who made landfall on Thursday morning in the Florida Keys aboard a rustic boat were spread on social networks, and show the moment in which the rafters recover from a journey of almost 30 hours.

The day before, the head of the Border Patrol in the Miami Sector, Samuel Briggs II, had reported that the migrants arrived on Thursday morning in Tavernier, near Key West and Islamorada, in a rustic wooden and metal boat with a sail of coat.

A video posted by the Only in Dade Instagram account shows images of the rafters, who after disembarking sat down to wait for the authorities at a sales stand where they ate and bought soft drinks.

When asked about the length of the trip, one answered that between 25 and 30 hours.

Apparently the group was mostly men, only two women are seen sitting on a bench.

Then images of the boat are shown, anchored to the ground and with an oar still touching the sea.

The rafters could be repatriated to Cuba in the coming days, as has happened with the migrants who have arrived on US soil by sea in recent months.

This did not previously happen with migrants who landed in the United States, who were processed and finally admitted to the country. Now they are subjected to severe credible fear interviews and deported.

In an interview with CyberCuba, attorney Willy Allen, an immigration expert, said that the US government has increased the rigor of credible fear interviews for those who are intercepted on rafts trying to make landfall.

He explained that the United States Government "does not want to have a massive success in arrivals by sea" and this happens, he added, because they "study history" and do not forget that Jimmy Carter lost his re-election in 1980, against Ronald Reagan, in part, "because he allowed Mariel" and this "created a very big problem for him."

Also to Bill Clinton, who was governor of Arkansas at the time. That explains what he did later with the rafters. "He didn't receive them. He sent them to pick them up and sent them to Panama and Guantánamo."

Despite this situation, rafter trips do not stop. Last March the largest cruise ship in the world, the 'Icon of the Seas', rescued 14 Cubans on the high seas and took them to Honduras.