Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

Sandokan · May 15, 2023

28 Cuban migrants who reached Florida evade detention and deportation, whereabouts still unknown – Babalú Blog (babalublog.com)

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December 17, 2022 by Carlos Eire

From our Bureau of Successful Escapes From Socialist Utopias with some assistance from our Bureau of Successful Evasions in the Florida Straits

Some Cuban rafters have just beaten the odds by landing undetected in Florida. Back in Cuba, a relative of one of the migrants claims that he received word that all 28 passengers of the rustic vessel had landed in Florida, but no one in the U.S. has confirmed this, much less revealed their whereabouts.

So, officially, these 28 are still missing. They’ve been lucky thus far, if it is indeed true that they reached land safely. But what lies ahead for them can best be described as an obstacle course. Without proper identification, life in the U.S. will be difficult and perhaps very expensive. Buying false documents is possible, yes, but costly and potentially troublesome.
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Well, these are the lucky ones that manage to escape. They reach land safely, avoiding deportation.

Sandokan · May 29, 2023

Coast Guard searching for 9 Cubans after boat capsizes (local10.com)

Chris Gothner

Published: December 19, 2022

LAKE WORTH BEACH, Fla. – Crews from the U.S. Coast Guard searched for nine suspected Cuban migrants in the waters off Palm Beach County, the agency said Monday morning.

According to the Coast Guard, a good Samaritan rescued a person from the water near Lake Worth Beach Sunday afternoon.

“The survivor reported he and (nine) others left Cuba on Dec. 10 (and) the vessel capsized early Sunday morning,” the Coast Guard tweeted.

The search and rescue efforts come amid an upsurge in Cuban migration to South Florida.

After two days of searching the Coast Gard suspended the search for the 9 people missing. The conclusion is that they were lost at sea. The death toll continuous to rise. They die by dehydration, by drowning or ripped apart by the sharks.

Sandokan · Jun 15, 2023

Dry Tortugas National Park closes after nearly 300 migrants land over 2-day span (local10.com)

Park expected to remain closed for several day

David Dword

January 2, 2023

KEY WEST, Fla.

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– Dry Tortugas National Park closed Monday morning after scores of migrants arrived in the Florida Keys, and the park will remain closed for the time being.

Officials on Sunday said nearly 300 migrants arrived at the park over the past two days.

Law enforcement and medical personnel will evaluate and transport the migrants to Key West, officials said.

In a separate incident, authorities in the Florida Keys encountered 160 asylum seekers on Sunday. As of late Sunday afternoon, Border Patrol had responded to 10 migrant landings since midnight.

“More than 160 refugees have landed mostly in the Middle and Upper Keys, as well as many as 300 on the Marquesas Keys and at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas,” Monroe County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Adam Linhardt confirmed Monday.

Linhardt said the agency “has been assisting federal law enforcement agents with a spike.
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Cuban rafters are getting smart and landing on keys that than are not guarder as well as the mayor ones by the Coast Gard patrol boats, given they a chance to scape deportation by keep raft jumping to other nearby keys. Their arrival in large number cause the closure of Dry Tortugas National Park that is only accessibly by boat. In October and November about 14,000 Cuban rafters have been encountered in Florida.

Sandokan · Jun 30, 2023

At least 69 Cuban migrants disappeared in the Caribbean Sea in 2022 - Latin america News (latin-american.news)

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January 25, 2023

MIAMI, United States. – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported this week that at least 69 of the 321 migrants who died or disappeared on maritime routes in the Caribbean Sea in 2022 were Cuban.

However, the figure could be higher, since only half of the disappeared could be identified.

According to Disappeared Migrants Project From the IOM, which carries out daily monitoring of these people, the number reported in 2022 constitutes a record and represents a sharp increase compared to that of 2021, the year in which only 180 deaths and disappearances were reported on the routes of the Caribbean Sea.

Of the total number of disappeared in 2022, 80 Haitians, 56 Dominicans and 25 Venezuelans were also identified.

“The main cause of death was drowning caused by bad weather conditions that make navigation difficult and the use of precarious boats in poor condition or that are not suitable for navigation on the high seas,” considered the IOM, an organization that belongs to the United Nations.
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Migrants death toll is extremely high. The estimate number of Cuban rafters attempting to escape, mostly by sea in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, from 1959 to 2022 surpass 260,000. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that only one in four rafters who have attempted to escape has been successful, 40% have been captured and most of them send back to Cuba and about 35% of the rafters have died in their attempt to scape, around 91,000 dead, an staggering figure.

Sandokan · Jul 16, 2023

Five dead, 12 missing after Cuba migrant boat sinks | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News — World — The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News

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Five people died and another 12 were unaccounted for after an improvised boat they were using to reach the United States from Cuba sank, official Cuban media reported Friday.

A serious economic crisis is fuelling an unprecedented exodus from Cuba, particularly to the United States.

“Five deaths have been reported,” the Cubadebate newspaper reported on its website, adding that survivors said “the incident occurred due to strong waves.”

It said two coastguard boats headed to the scene in response to a call for help, rescuing 11.

Witnesses said 12 people from the boat were missing, the report said.

The migrants, all from the municipality of Cardenas, 115 kilometers (70 miles) east of the capital Havana, “left the country illegally on January 23 through Torrontela” trying to reach US territory, it said.

Cuban rafters deaths keep piling up. They continue to prefer throwing themselves into the sea, and in this case, like in many others, losing their lives than remaining oppressed by the Castroist communist regime.

The boat sank the next day.

Many Cubans have taken advantage of a visa exemption in Nicaragua, an ally of Havana, since the end of 2021 to try to reach the United States through Central America.

Emigration by sea, through the Florida Straits, has also skyrocketed in recent months.

The United States Coast Guard has intercepted 5,321 Cubans at sea since October 1,

Sandokan · Jul 31, 2023

Cuban migrants fly into Key West airport on motorized hang glider | CNN

By Paradise Afshar, Melissa Alonso and Zoe Sottile, CNN

Published 4:48 PM EDT, Sat March 25, 2023

Two Cuban migrants flew into Key West International Airport in Florida on Saturday on a motorized hang glider, local police say.
CNN — Two migrants from Cuba landed at Key West International Airport in Florida on Saturday via a motorized hang glider, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

The pair landed at about 10:30 a.m. local time, and were not seriously injured, the sheriff’s office announced on its website.

Both men were turned over to the custody of the US Border Patrol.

“There were no interruptions in service and operations continue as normal,” Richard Strickland, director of airports at Key West International Airport, said in a statement.

The image shows a means of transport that simulates a kind of winged motorcycle. The one used by the two Cuban migrants belong to the Cuba Aviation Club. Flying for 90 miles in this motorized hand glider is another way Cubans start to use to escape from the Castroist communist regime. During decades Cubans have used mainly two escape routes, on rickety boat to cross the Florida Straits and from a country in Central or South America to enter through the south border of U.S. These scape routs have skyrocketed in recent months.

Sandokan · Aug 15, 2023

Balseros use smartphones to navigate the Cuba to U.S. voyage - Rest of World

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From Havana to Key West on a surfboard and a cellphone.

By LIDIA HERNÁNDEZ-TAPIA

17 APRIL 2023 • HAVANA, CUBA

Navigation apps allow Cuba’s seaborne migrants to download and operate maps offline.

The maps help migrants plan their routes better to avoid dangers at sea.

The combination of digital technology, increased mobile internet access on the island, and user-friendly maritime apps has forever altered the way traditional migration is being conducted.

Last summer, Pablo Mantilla Masa, 34, set out to sea on a kite surfboard, armed with a smartphone loaded with OsmAnd, a maps and navigation app. It provides free nautical charts, with which he trained for months, tracking his speed along the coast of his native Cuba’s Varadero beach. Mantilla’s ultimate aim was to combine his surfboard skills with the charts on his phone to make the risky crossing across the sea to Florida. It would be his fourth attempt to migrate by sea since 2010.

“On one occasion, I spent four days wandering out at sea until I was able to make it back,” Mantilla told Rest of World, recalling a previous failed attempt. “Spending a night at sea is terrifying. But during the day, the sun weighed on me, I suffered from dehydration, back pain, and vomiting.”
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This new generation of rafters is using technology that wasn’t available to their predecessors. Reaching Florida’s coast ninety miles away on a surfboard or a “rustic vessel”, is now somewhat less dangerous with the apps help. The number of those that have died trying to escaped is very high.

Sandokan · Aug 31, 2023

Coast Guard repatriates 27 people to Cuba > United States Coast Guard News > Press Releases (uscg.mil)

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Aug. 5, 2023

MIAMI – Coast Guard crews repatriated 27 people to Cuba, Saturday, following three separate migrant interdictions in the past week originating from Cuba.

The Coast Guard and its Homeland Security Task Force - Southeast partners will continue to be a presence in the air and on the waters to detect and deter migrants from attempting to unlawfully enter the U.S. via maritime domain.

“The Coast Guard and our partners remain vigilant in our mission to rescue and repatriate migrants attempting to unlawfully migrate to the U.S.,” said Lt. Matthew Miller, Coast Guard Seventh District. “It is important to remember hurricane season is in full swing, using a safe and legal pathway can be the difference between life and death.”

Since Oct. 1, 2022, Coast Guard crews interdicted or encountered 6,967 Cuban migrants. Once aboard a Coast Guard cutter, all migrants receive food, water, shelter and basic medical attention.

Under the Biden administration, Cuban rafters are not welcome to U.S. anymore, since they are “attempting to unlawfully migrate to the U.S.” They shall try the “lawfully migration” through the Mexico-U.S. border.

Boots · Aug 31, 2023

Sandokan said:
Under the Biden administration, Cuban rafters are not welcome to U.S. anymore, since they are “attempting to unlawfully migrate to the U.S.” They shall try the “lawfully migration” through the Mexico-U.S. border.

Another racist Trump administration decision against brown people.

Sandokan · Sep 15, 2023

Cuban Migration by Sea: Deaths & Disappearances in 2023 - Havana Times

By Loraine Morales Pino (El Toque)

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HAVANA TIMES – At least 11 Cubans have lost their lives in the Florida Strait so far this year, while another 54 are missing. While we know two boats and their 37 crew members managed to reach their destination, the illegal routes that people take, feeling like they have no other choice -, are leaving more and more families in distress and mourning.

The first of these unfortunate events took place on January 23, 2023, in front of the Cardenas, Matanzas coast, when a tragic shipwreck took the lives of at least 11 people and left nine missing. The boat, with a crew of approximately 31 people, had left the island the day before from Torrontela, with the objective of reaching US soil. The boat capsized in Cayo Cruz del Padre, and only 11 survivors were rescued.

Then, on June 28, 2023, the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted and transferred 14 Cuban migrants and one dead body to the Bahamas, after the US Coast Guard stopped the group. During the intervention, the authorities tried to resuscitate the Cuban who had been unconscious for 30 minutes, but he didn’t survive unfortunately.

Throughout history, the sea route has been the most used by waves of illegal migration between Cuba and the US. It’s estimated that approximately 125,000 Cubans left the country in 1980 with the Mariel boatlift; and 14 years later, in 1994, over 30,000 Cubans were involved in the so-called Rafter Crisis.
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“It’s estimated that approximately 125,000 Cubans left the country in 1980 with the Mariel boatlift; and 14 years later, in 1994, over 30,000 Cubans were involved in the so-called Rafter Crisis”, and “between October 2022 and June 2023, 389,082 Cubans were recorded to have reached the US. Border.” People voted with their feet.

Sandokan · Sep 30, 2023

Before January 1959, when Fidel Castro took over Cuba, the country received immigrants from all over the world. For example, the Cuban embassy in Rome had more than 5,000 applications from Italians wanted to live in Cuba, and a similar number of Spaniards solicited visas at the Cuban embassy in Madrid to travel to Cuba. Actions speak for themselves.

Sandokan · Oct 14, 2023

After a long lull, 3 Cuban migrant boats land in the Florida Keys within one week | News | thebrunswicknews.com

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David Goodhue, Miami Herald Jul 6, 2023

MIAMI — After a roughly monthlong lag in arrivals to the Florida Keys, the third migrant boat in a week carrying people from Cuba came to shore in the island chain, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The latest group — six adults and one child — arrived around 11 p.m. Wednesday night, said Adam Hoffner, division chief for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Miami sector. They came to shore in a homemade boat in the small Upper Keys city of Layton, Hoffner said.

The day before, 32 people from Cuba came ashore the Middle Keys city of Marathon around 5 a.m.

And on Sunday, three Cubans made landfall in a small migrant boat at Truman Waterfront Park in Key West, according to the Border Patrol.

All of the people who arrived this week will be processed for removal back to Cuba, Border Patrol officials said.
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Escaping in home maid rafts is dangerous and very often a deadly voyage. The real problem is the Castroist communist regime, whose actions prompt Cubans to flee their country no matter what happen to them.

Sandokan · Oct 31, 2023

Record-breaking numbers of Cuban migrants entered the U.S. in 2022-23 - POLITICO

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More Cubans have come to the country in the last two years than did the 1965-1973 Freedom Flights.

The uptick in Cuban migration comes as Cuba’s economy has stagnated over the last few years. | Ramon Espinosa/AP
By ERIC BAZAIL-EIMIL
10/24/2023 07:34 PM EDT
A record-breaking number of Cubans have arrived in the U.S. over the last two years, according to updated data released by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Agency.

Slightly fewer than 425,000 Cubans were encountered at U.S. ports of entry in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, according to CBP, and 200,287 of those arrived in fiscal year 2023, which ended in September. Most were apprehended at the U.S. border with Mexico, a marked change from previous waves of migration.

Those figures have smashed records. More Cubans have come to the U.S. in the last two years than came during the Freedom Flights, which saw 270,000 Cubans leave the island over a roughly eight-year period between 1965 and 1973. They are also greater than the combined numbers of Cubans who left during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift and the 1994 Balsero crisis.

The sharp uptick in Cuban migration comes as Cuba’s economy has stagnated over the last few years, leading to widespread blackouts, shortages of food and medicine and deteriorating quality of life for the country’s inhabitants.
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From December 1965 to April 1973 a period of 7 years and 5 months, through the Freedom Flights, an estimate of 279,318 Cubans enters the U.S. as refugees. During the Mariel Boatlift, from April to October of 1980, a period of 5 months, a total of 124,776 Cuban refugees left towards U.S. through the Port of Mariel. On August 5, 1994, the upraising known as the “Maleconazo”, thousands of people rioted in the Havana Malecon. Castro accused the U.S. of encouraging Cubans to leave illegally. He said that anyone who wanted to leave the country could do so without any obstacles, which started the crisis. About 35,000 Cuban rafters were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Gard during a period of 5 weeks and transported to Guantanamo Base, allowing the majority to emigrate. A total of around 439,000 Cubans refugees entered the U.S. in a period of 7.5 years, equivalent to 58,533 per year.

Sandokan · Nov 15, 2023

During the fiscal years 2022 and 2023, close to 425,000 Cubans entered tin U.S. through the U.S. border with Mexico, equivalent to 212,500 per year. This is an unprecedented exodus. “When a people emigrate, their rulers are not needed.” - José Martí.

Sandokan · Dec 1, 2023

The enormous exodus of 200,287 Cuban refugees from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023 through the south border of U.S., overshadow the exodus of 124,776 Cubans refugees to the U.S. by the port of Mariel in 1980. Cuba, with a population of around 11.3 million, locate the island in four place of the countries that had contributed the most migrants to the U.S. in fiscal year 2023. But Cuban rafter that reach Florida coast in makeshift vessels are send back to Dr. Castro Island. What a Machiavellian approach.

Sandokan · Dec 16, 2023

As crisis deepens, Cubans scramble to migrate by any means | Reuters

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By Dave Sherwood
November 9, 20233:11 AM PST - Updated a month ago

HAVANA, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Cuban Idalberto Echavarria maneuvered his wife Olga in a wheelchair to the front of the line at Terminal 2 of Havana's airport, dodging luggage and a sea of people bidding farewell to friends and family.

The crowded terminal, a launch point for Cubans making their way by air to Nicaragua then overland to the United States, is one barometer of the frenzy to migrate from the communist-run island nation.

For many, like Echavarria and his wife, it has also become a last resort as Cuba's economic crisis deepens with no end in sight.
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The hemorrhage of Cubans leaving the island and trying to cross the border to the U.S., is unstoppable. Lack of food, water, electricity and worsening sanitary conditions, have created an exodus in the last two years of more than 400,000 Cubans leaving the island.

Sandokan · Dec 31, 2023

Seven Cuban Rafters and a Dog Are Rescued Off the Coast of Mexico – Translating Cuba

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Sailors from Mexico rescued the rafters and a dog near Isla Mujeres. (Semar)
14ymedio, Mexico, December 5, 2023 — The Mexican Navy rescued seven Cuban rafters and a dog this Monday who were adrift on a boat 76 nautical miles from Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo. According to the authorities, a foreign ship detected the migrants because of the barking of a dog and provided details of several people on “a small wooden raft that was propelled by a sail” who were asking for help.

Upon arriving at the scene, the sailors found two women, five men and the pet, who were put on an official boat and taken to land. One of the rafters said that “he had not drunk water or eaten for two days” and that there had come a time when he thought they would die at sea.

The authorities told them that, after being examined by a doctor and receiving food at the Puerto Juárez naval station, they would be handed over to Immigration. One of the women asked the sailors not to deport them. “We don’t want them to put us in jail.” she said. “If they return us they will treat us like criminals.”
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The exodus of Cubans by sea continues to be unstoppable. On November 28, another 12 rafters were detained by the Mexican police after disembarking in the hotels zone of Cancun, Mexico.

Sandokan · Jan 15, 2024

Seven Cuban Rafters and a Dog Are Rescued Off the Coast of Mexico – Translating Cuba

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Sailors from Mexico rescued the rafters and a dog near Isla Mujeres. (Semar)
14ymedio, Mexico, December 5, 2023 — The Mexican Navy rescued seven Cuban rafters and a dog this Monday who were adrift on a boat 76 nautical miles from Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo. According to the authorities, a foreign ship detected the migrants because of the barking of a dog and provided details of several people on “a small wooden raft that was propelled by a sail” who were asking for help.

Upon arriving at the scene, the sailors found two women, five men and the pet, who were put on an official boat and taken to land. One of the rafters said that “he had not drunk water or eaten for two days” and that there had come a time when he thought they would die at sea.

The authorities told them that, after being examined by a doctor and receiving food at the Puerto Juárez naval station, they would be handed over to Immigration. One of the women asked the sailors not to deport them. “We don’t want them to put us in jail.” she said. “If they return us they will treat us like criminals.”
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The exodus of Cubans by sea continues to be unstoppable. On November 28, another 12 rafters were detained by the Mexican police after disembarking in the hotels zone of Cancun, Mexico.

Sandokan · Jan 30, 2024

Coast Guard repatriates 56 migrants to Cuba > United States Coast Guard News > Press Releases (uscg.mil)

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Jan. 2, 2024

MIAMI — U.S. Coast Guard Cutter William Flores’ crew repatriated 56 migrants to Cuba, Tuesday, following multiple interdictions off the Florida Keys.

Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations crews interdicted three separate unlawful migrant voyages off Florida's coast and in the Florida Straits from Dec. 26, 2023 through Dec. 29, 2023.

“As we enter the new year, the Coast Guard and our Homeland Security Task Force-Southeast partners remain committed to patrolling the Florida Straits, Windward and Mona Passages to prevent and deter unlawful entry into the U.S. by sea,” said Lt. Cmdr. John W. Beal, Coast Guard District Seven public affairs officer and HSTF-SE public information officer. “Migrants attempting to circumvent lawful pathways to enter the United States by sea will be rescued and repatriated to their country of origin or departure. Do not take to the sea.”

Coast Guard crews repatriated 235 migrants to Cuba in fiscal year 2024, which began on Oct. 1, 2023.

Once aboard a Coast Guard cutter, all migrants receive food, water, shelter, and basic medical attention.

Cubans rafters are fleeing political oppression because their situation in Cuba is very desperate. Under the Biden administration they are not welcome to U.S. anymore, since they are “attempting to unlawfully migrate to the U.S.”. But migrants entering “unlawfully” through the U.S. south border at record high, are allow to stay. What a despicable act by the Biden administration.

Sandokan · Feb 16, 2024

A Cuban Rafter Dies of Hypothermia and Hunger in Search of the American Dream – Translating Cuba

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14ymedio, Havana, 31 January 2024 — Raúl Martínez Torres, the Cuban who went missing from the group of 13 rafters who were rescued this Monday by a cruise ship and taken to Mexico, died during the trip. “He died of hypothermia and hunger on January 16 during the crossing,” Osiel Hernández told 14ymedio, explaining that the young man’s body “was thrown into the sea” on the crossing. On Tuesday, his family had “a photo of the boy to keep watch over him,” he adds.

Before he left the Island, Martínez Torres had doubts but decided to go on the raft in search of the American dream despite the fact that he “didn’t know how to swim.” The others took care of him as far as possible, but “his health deteriorated even more due to the lack of food,” explained Hernández, who is in now in Mexico, waiting for a response from Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to be able to travel to the United States.

They ran out of food and relied on fishing for several days. However, Martínez Torres stopped eating. He was shivering and not making any sense before he died. They kept his body for days, “but it began to decompose,” and they decided to throw it into the sea, says Hernández.
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Another Cuban rafter die. They prefer to risk their lives than remaining in Cuba oppressed by the Castro’s communist regime with no future what so ever. They are lucky that Mexico government suspended the deportation of Cubans and will give them the opportunity to remain in Mexico.

Sandokan · Mar 1, 2024

Cuban smuggling plan goes awry. One man shot, more than a dozen scatter in Miami-Dade County | News & Features | ArcaMax Publishing

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MIAMI — A smuggling operation involving almost two dozen Cuban migrants grew tense and almost deadly last week when the group refused to spend the night in a container on a Redland farm over concerns about a 2-year-old child, several law enforcement sources have confirmed.

Fights broke out. Most of the migrants fled in different directions on the farm. A smuggler chased down and shot one of the migrants, injuring him badly, according to police. Nearby residents who heard the gunshots called police, who were able to round up most, if not all, of the migrants.

The alleged shooter got away. The injured migrant — shot in the stomach and the foot — was taken to a nearby hospital. The remaining migrants who told police they hadn’t eaten in days, were fed and given water.
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Relatives pay smugglers to bring Cubans to South Florida by boat. In this case, about 20 migrants were releases when their relatives pay for their release to the smugglers. The rests were locked up in a container overnight in a farm until they got paid. They refuse to be locked up, fight broke up and they fled in different directions and one of them was shot down by a smuggler. Most of them were rounded up by the police. It is not known many Cubans have been smuggled into South Florida in recent years.

Craig234 · Mar 11, 2024

Sandokan said:
Again the backdrop of the Castros tyranny “reforms” greeted by the mainstream media, Cubans continue to risk their lives to escape from workers paradise. Five more victims of the Castro brothers, the cause of this tragedy.

End the immoral US sanctions, and stop immorally implying they aren't causing a lot of harm.

Sandokan · Mar 16, 2024

20 people from Cuba arrive in the Florida Keys on a migrant boat, Border Patrol says (yahoo.com)

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Thu, February 29, 2024

A migrant boat with 20 people on board arrived Thursday morning in the Florida Keys, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The boat made it to the shallow waters near Long Key around 7:30 a.m., the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office online dispatch records show.

The Border Patrol, in a statement released on X, described the boat as a
“makeshift” vessel. The agency did not immediately respond to questions about the people’s condition when they were encountered by agents.

As in most cases of Cuban migrant arrivals, the group will likely be processed for removal back to their homeland.

So far, all Cubans rafters that are detain by the Border Patrol are sent back to Cuba. This year already 226 Cubans rafters have been sent back to the island, since they are “attempting to unlawfully migrate to the U.S.” What a despicable and cruel act by the Biden administration.

Sandokan · Apr 2, 2024

The US Will Deport 24 Rafters Who Landed on Monday in the Florida Keys – Translating Cuba

The rafters made landfall on Duck Key, in Monroe County (Florida)
14ymedio, Havana, 20 March 2024 — The United States Border Patrol processed for deportation 24 rafters who landed in Duck Key, Monroe County, Florida. The Cubans were arrested on Monday by Fisheries and Wildlife officers, who handed them over to the Border Patrol, reported the acting head of the Miami Sector, Samuel Briggs.

The detainees told the officers that their journey lasted two days, after they left the Island from the northern side. The authorities provided them with medical assistance and, after certifying that they were in good health, reminded them that those who illegally enter U.S. territory will be deported and will not be able to enter the United States within a period of five years, in addition to not being eligible to seek asylum.

The detainees told the officers that their journey lasted two days, after they left the Island from the northern side.

Between January and February, the same officer Briggs also recorded the arrival of 45 rafters. A group of 20 Cubans arrived on the last day of December in the Florida Keys, while another 25 made landfall in January in Biscayne National Park. All were listed for deportation.
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The Biden administration is returning to Cuba those who arrive by sea. They prefer the risk of losing their lives than remaining oppressed by the Castro’s communist regime. According to the administration “those who illegally enter U.S. territory will be deported and will not be able to enter the United States within a period of five years, in addition to not being eligible to seek asylum.” This is an evil act that need to be condemned.

Sandokan · 2024-04-16T01:02:11-0400

The US Will Deport 24 Rafters Who Landed on Monday in the Florida Keys – Translating Cuba

The rafters made landfall on Duck Key, in Monroe County (Florida)
14ymedio, Havana, 20 March 2024 — The United States Border Patrol processed for deportation 24 rafters who landed in Duck Key, Monroe County, Florida. The Cubans were arrested on Monday by Fisheries and Wildlife officers, who handed them over to the Border Patrol, reported the acting head of the Miami Sector, Samuel Briggs.

The detainees told the officers that their journey lasted two days, after they left the Island from the northern side. The authorities provided them with medical assistance and, after certifying that they were in good health, reminded them that those who illegally enter U.S. territory will be deported and will not be able to enter the United States within a period of five years, in addition to not being eligible to seek asylum.

The detainees told the officers that their journey lasted two days, after they left the Island from the northern side.
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The Biden administration is returning to Cuba those who arrive by sea. They prefer the risk of losing their lives than remaining oppressed by the Castro’s communist regime. According to the administration “those who illegally enter U.S. territory will be deported and will not be able to enter the United States within a period of five years, in addition to not being eligible to seek asylum.” This is an evil act that need to be condemned.

Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

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