Seven migrants, apparently Cuban, arrived in the Cayman Islands aboard a homemade boat, reported authorities in that British overseas territory located south of Cuba.
The Customs and Border Control Service of the Cayman Islands (CBC) detailed that on Wednesday, May 8, seven migrants in a boat were spotted off Queens Highway, at approximately 5:30 a.m.
CBC and its partner agencies responded to the scene; but the immigrants said that they wanted to continue their sea journey; so the authorities monitored them until they left their radars.
"At approximately 9:30 a.m. the vessel was heading WNW off the coast of Cobalt, West Bay, approximately 2 miles offshore, heading west, about 2-3 knots The vessel was monitored by CBC from the ground until it was out of line of sight," the entity stressed.
In the Cayman Islands there are dozens of Cuban migrants who spend years waiting for the results of their asylum applications, in prisons and doing poorly paid forced labor.
Since January of last year authorities of that territory and the Cuban ones They agreed to resume deportation flights.
In the context of the Cuban migration crisis, dozens of rafters have reached its shores in recent years; And given the reports of mistreatment in detention centers and deportations, many rafters decide to continue their journey.
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