This weekend, United States Border Patrol agents detected 24 Cuban rafters trying to enter the country.
This was confirmed via Twitter with the following message: “over the weekend, US Border Patrol agents and LE partners responded to a migrant landing in Dry Tortugas National Park and encountered 24 Cuban migrants.”
According to the information provided, one of the Cubans was transferred to an area hospital due to dehydration.
In January of this year, before the announcement of the humanitarian parole for Cubans, federal authorities they had to close Dry Tortugas National Park (almost 70 miles west of Key West) for the arrival of almost 300 people on rafts.
Although the numbers of emigration by sea have decreased and immigration policies have been tightened, there are still Cubans who try to reach the United States in homemade boats.
Since last April 27, migrants who are intercepted at sea will be indefinitely ineligible for humanitarian parole processes for Cubans and Haitians.
Likewise, the Customs and Border Protection Service (CBP) has reported that those who attempt to enter the United States irregularly and lack a legal basis to remain will be subject to “expedited deportation to their country of origin and ban on re-entry for five years.”
DEPORTATION OF CUBANS
The truth is that after such a risky journey, deportation awaits these Cubans.
In August 2023, the fifth deportation flight to Cuba from the United States took place, with 29 Cubans on board. As it became known, all the migrants returned to the island had an I-220B order. The majority of detainees presented “deportation arrest” forms, however, more than 90% of them were denied.
To date, 287 people have been deported to Cuba on five flights. In the first of them, 123 migrants returned to the country, on April 24.
