A group of United States federal agents detained 32 Cuban immigrants who arrived on Tuesday aboard a boat in the Florida Keys. According to the Border Patrol, the group of immigrants who had made landfall in the United States in the early hours of the morning in Marathon.
The chief of the patrol in the Miami sector, Walter N. Slosar, reported on Twitter that the group of federal agents approached the place, where they found 32 Cuban citizens, 27 of them men and 5 women. The immigrants were subjected to a medical examination and placed in the custody of the United States authorities to later be subjected to deportation in their territory.
During the beginning of June, the United States Coast Guard Service (SGC) deported 25 rafters this Sunday, bringing to 3,940 the immigrants that the US authorities have returned to the island from different nations so far this month. this year.
The figures of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) this group was made up of 16 men, eight women and one minor, who were sailing towards the coast of the United States and who were later intercepted by the coast guard.
This would be the 50th return carried out in 2023 by the US authorities with 2,949 people, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Interior (Minint). In addition, this week another four Cubans were deported from the Cayman Islands.
The Cuban authorities warned about the danger and life-threatening conditions that illegal departures from the country by sea represent and the irresponsible involvement of minors. Cuba also received three other groups of 27, 66 and 24 irregular immigrants this month.
On the other hand, the Customs and Border Protection Office affirmed that in December 2022 more than 44,000 Cubans arrived at border points for a cumulative 313,488 immigrants throughout that year.
With information from EFE
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