havana/The Border Patrol processed for deportation 21 Cuban nationals this past Monday in the Marquesas Keys. The acting head of the Miami Division, Samuel Briggshe characterized the operation as part of border protection and to prevent illegal migration.
The official has recorded the arrival of 68 immigrants from Cuba until April 22. All are processed for export. As usual, the US authorities emphasize that these people “will not be able to enter the US for five years, as well as they will not be eligible to ask for asylum.”
Briggs recalled that the border is closed to illegal immigration. Since March of last year, the Republican governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, ordered 250 police officers and soldiers to be sent to the Florida Keys to stop rafts, mostly Haitians, fleeing from the violence.
“They will not be able to enter the United States for five years, and they will not be eligible for asylum”
The acting commander of the Border Patrol recalled that, as part of these patrols, last Friday they seized a speedboat with 31 Haitians in Key Biscayne in a “maritime smuggling incident”.
That same day, they arrested four migrants who were being transported in a vehicle. Briggs pointed out that these people had entered illegally through the “southwest border” and were moving to Florida.
The Governments of Havana and Washington have a bilateral agreement so that all migrants who reach the territory of the United States by sea will be returned to the Island, and from April 2023 they started deportation flights for people “unauthorized” who were detained on the border with Mexico.
