Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

Sandokan · Dec 19, 2018

US Coast Guard repatriates 21 migrants to Cuba
https://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/2018/08/20/us-coast-guard-repatriates-21-migrants-to-cuba/

August 20, 2018

US Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans

MIAMI, USA — The crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans repatriated 21 migrants on Monday to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard 7th District command center received a report from the Cuban Border Guard Friday of a rustic vessel operating near Mariel, Cuba. The watchstanders diverted the crew of the Coast Guard Cutter William Trump, which arrived on scene and embarked 20 male migrants and one female migrant.

“The journey by rustic vessel undertaken by persons attempting to migrate illegally from Cuba to the United States is very dangerous, and this is as much a safety issue as it is a law enforcement issue,” said Capt. Jason Ryan, chief of the Coast Guard 7th District enforcement branch.

“Migrants are subjected to hazardous conditions during these trips which many times are taken in overloaded, unseaworthy vessels to the point where the risk is simply not worth the reward.”

Approximately 313 Cuban migrants have attempted to illegally migrate to the US via the maritime environment since October 1 compared to 1,989 Cuban migrants in fiscal year 2017. These numbers represent the total number of at-sea interdictions, landings and disruptions in the Florida Straits, Caribbean and Atlantic.

Once aboard Coast Guard cutters, all migrants receive food, water, shelter and medical attention.

How is possible that with all the great benefits in healthcare and education provided by the Castroit regime, Cubans continuous to risk their lives in the sharks infested water of the Gulf of Mexico to escape from the paradise island of Dr. Castro. The answer is very simple, life in the “paradise island” of Dr. Castro is hell on earth.

Hatuey · Dec 19, 2018

300 posts / 7 years = 0.11 posts a day made in this thread.

Amazing how mods can ignore a single person reviving a thread, over and over again.

Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.

Sandokan · Dec 20, 2018

Hatuey said:
300 posts / 7 years = 0.11 posts a day made in this thread.

Amazing how mods can ignore a single person reviving a thread, over and over again.

Sent from Trump Plaza's basement using Putin's MacBook.

Indeed it is amazing. Number of views; 39,622, equivalent to 132 views per post. The thread is among the best views per post ratio. By the way, the thread posts are all new articles keeping it up to day. Sour grapes?

Sandokan · Jan 13, 2019

15 arrested after 27 Cuban migrants come ashore in Virginia Key
https://www.local10.com/news/local/miami/cuban-migrants-arrested-virginia-key

Arrested migrants to be processed for removal
By Tim Swift - Local10.com Digital Editor, Liane Morejon - Reporter
Posted: 4:47 PM, October 07, 2018Updated: 7:05 AM, October 08, 2018

VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. - The U.S. Border Patrol said 15 illegal Cuban nationals were arrested after 27 migrants came ashore Sunday in Virginia Key, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Video from the scene shows the migrants -- some of them children -- being detained by agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Miami paramedics treated 13 of the migrants at the scene, but none of the migrants were transported to hospitals.
Juan Montoya was on the beach when the migrants arrived.

"There's like 20, 30 people inside the boat and they're all getting out, you know. People have been out there for eight days," Montoya said.
He said they traveled from Cuba in wooden makeshift vessel.

"One of them told me he was there working on it for three weeks at his house," Montoya said.

Border Patrol agents said the 15 arrested people will be taken to the Dania Beach Border Patrol station for processing and removal.

Cubans continue to risk their lives to escape from the hell island of Dr. Castro. Twelves of them manage to escape and are illegally in U.S. The other 15 that were arrested, will be process but there will be a hearing, and if they can prove asylum status they will be allow remain in U.S. soil, otherwise they will be sent back to the hell island of Dr. Castro.

Sandokan · Jan 27, 2019

Coast Guard intercepts small boat overloaded with Cubans north of Havana
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article221504550.html

The boat with 37 Cubans attempting to reach the United States in this U.S. Coast Guard photo from Saturday

BY DAVID J. NEAL
dneal@miamiherald.com
November 11, 2018 02:25 PM
Updated November 12, 2018 08:19 PM

A small boat overloaded with Cuban migrants was stopped Saturday by the Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton, the Coast Guard said, and the cutter William Trump took 36 of the passengers to Cabanas, Cuba.

One passenger on the boat was med evacueed because he was suffering from chest pains.

After seventh District watchstanders heard about a possible migrant boat 23 miles north of Havana, the Charles Sexton got sent in that direction with an Ocean Sentry plane. The Charles Sexton picked up 29 men and eight women. The William Trump took them back home.
The plane and the two cutters all are based in Key West.

Against all hope they keep fleeing. The rafters were taken back to the “paradise island” of Dr. Castro. Bad luck, they did not go into detention where they could request asylum and have a chance to remain in the U.S.

Sandokan · Feb 12, 2019

Coast Guard returns 27 migrants to Cuba
Coast Guard returns 27 migrants to Cuba - Sun Sentinel

The U.S. Coast Guard returned 27 migrants Cuba on Thursday. (U.S. Coast Guard, courtesy)

By Susannah Bryan Contact Reporter South Florida Sun Sentinel

November 22, 23018

Coast Guard crews repatriated 27 migrants to Cuba on Thursday.

The Cubans were traveling in a boat on Saturday when they were intercepted 29 miles north of Cuba on their way to Florida, Coast Guard officials said.

The migrants were given food, water and medical attention before being returned to Cuba by the Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Jr.

The Cubans were spotted by a Coast Guard Sentry airplane crew on Saturday.

“The Coast Guard diligently patrols the Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea to ensure the safety of life at sea and the security of the United States,” said Rear Adm. Peter Brown, commander of the Coast Guard 7th District and director of Homeland Security Taskforce Southeast. “United States policy is to promote safe, orderly and legal travel and migration.”

An estimated 296 Cuban migrants have attempted to illegally enter the United States by boat since Oct. 1

Last month, 27 Cuban migrants crowded onto a wooden boat landed on shore in Virginia Key in Miami. A dozen escaped capture but 15 were detained by U.S. Border and Customs Protection officials for processing and removal.

The rafter were only 29 miles north of Cuba when intercepted by the Coast Guard trying to escape and a few days later returned to the Castroit regime ruling pigs of the Animal Farm island where “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Even with minimal prospect of being granted asylum, Cubans continue to escape on unseaworthy rustic rafts, a risky and dangerous trip.

Sweden · Feb 12, 2019

Sandokan said:
The rafter were only 29 miles north of Cuba when intercepted by the Coast Guard trying to escape and a few days later returned to the Castroit regime ruling pigs of the Animal Farm island where “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Even with minimal prospect of being granted asylum, Cubans continue to escape on unseaworthy rustic rafts, a risky and dangerous trip.

I was serving in HMS Dainty, a Daring class RN destroyer, when in January 1966 we picked up two Cubans in a leaky boat, rigged with a small scrap of makeshift sail. They were without food or water and in a fairly bad way. We took them to the Bahamas; I do not know what happened to them afterwards but they certainly would not have been returned to Cuba.

How remarkable it is that 53 years on Cubans continue to risk their lives to escape Communism.

Sandokan · Feb 13, 2019

Sweden said:
I was serving in HMS Dainty, a Daring class RN destroyer, when in January 1966 we picked up two Cubans in a leaky boat, rigged with a small scrap of makeshift sail. They were without food or water and in a fairly bad way. We took them to the Bahamas; I do not know what happened to them afterwards but they certainly would not have been returned to Cuba.

How remarkable it is that 53 years on Cubans continue to risk their lives to escape Communism.

Indeed it is remarkable. Thanks for sharing your experience of what happen 53 years ago and for saving the lives of those Cubans rafters.

Sandokan · Feb 27, 2019

Coast Guard returns 27 migrants to Cuba
Coast Guard returns 27 migrants to Cuba - Sun Sentinel

The U.S. Coast Guard returned 27 migrants Cuba on Thursday. (U.S. Coast Guard, courtesy)

By Susannah Bryan Contact Reporter South Florida Sun Sentinel

November 22, 23018

Coast Guard crews repatriated 27 migrants to Cuba on Thursday.

The Cubans were traveling in a boat on Saturday when they were intercepted 29 miles north of Cuba on their way to Florida, Coast Guard officials said.

The migrants were given food, water and medical attention before being returned to Cuba by the Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Jr.

The Cubans were spotted by a Coast Guard Sentry airplane crew on Saturday.

“The Coast Guard diligently patrols the Florida Straits and Caribbean Sea to ensure the safety of life at sea and the security of the United States,” said Rear Adm. Peter Brown, commander of the Coast Guard 7th District and director of Homeland Security Taskforce Southeast. “United States policy is to promote safe, orderly and legal travel and migration.”

An estimated 296 Cuban migrants have attempted to illegally enter the United States by boat since Oct. 1

Last month, 27 Cuban migrants crowded onto a wooden boat landed on shore in Virginia Key in Miami. A dozen escaped capture but 15 were detained by U.S. Border and Customs Protection officials for processing and removal.

Susannah Bryan can be reached at sbryan@sunsentinel.com or 954-356-4554. Find her on Twitter @Susannah_Bryan.

The rafter were only 29 miles north of Cuba when intercepted by the Coast Guard trying to escape and a few days later returned to the Castroit regime ruling pigs of the Animal Farm island where “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” Even with minimal prospect of being granted asylum, Cubans continue to escape on unseaworthy rustic rafts, a risky and dangerous trip.

Sandokan · Mar 17, 2019

More than 20 Cuban migrants land in the Keys. They’ll be sent back, border agents say
More than 20 Cuban migrants wash ashore in the Florida Keys | FL Keys News

BY DAVID GOODHUE

JANUARY 03, 2019 05:41 PM,
UPDATED JANUARY 03, 2019 06:16 PM

A makeshift vessel sits grounded in the shallow water off Little Duck Key, on the south end of the Seven Mile Bridge, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2018. Twenty-three Cuban men arrived on the boat earlier that morning.

Almost two dozen men from Cuba washed ashore in the Middle Florida Keys by boat early Thursday morning.

The migrants all appeared to be healthy and uninjured, said Adam Linhardt, spokesman for the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

They were found at Veteran’s Memorial Park, mile marker 42 on the ocean side of U.S. 1, on the south end of the Seven Mile Bridge on Little Duck Key, Linhardt said.

A rustic blue vessel that had run aground was found nearby.
Click link above for full article.

Most Cubans who try to enter the U.S. without visas, after the elimination of the policy “wet food, dry foot” on January 12, 2017 under the Obama administration, face detention and possible deportation. The probability of being granted asylum is minimal. Still attempts by Cubans arriving in makeshift vessel continues. Over 320 Cubans rafters have attempted to enter the U.S. by boat during 2018. Those that prove a credible fear of persecution if they are return, are detain for processing. Otherwise they are returned to Cuba.

Sandokan · Apr 5, 2019

Coast Guard sends Cuban migrants back after they were found off Florida Keys
26 Cuban migrants caught at sea off Florida Keys | Miami Herald

BY DAVID GOODHUE
MARCH 12, 2019 07:12 PM

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton takes 26 migrants on board who were caught about 50 miles from the coast of Long Key Tuesday, March 12, 2019. U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO

About two dozen people from Cuba tried entering the United States aboard a 30-foot wooden sailboat Tuesday afternoon about 50 miles off Long Key in the middle Florida Keys.

The vessel was disabled and the people on board were waving their arms when the boaters who reported it to the Coast Guard first spotted it early Tuesday morning, according to a Coast Guard press release.

The crew of a U.S. Navy destroyer conducting operations in the area arrived first and transferred the 26 people to the Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton. The boat was 48 miles off the coast.
Click link above for full article.

Unfortunate Cuban rafters, they continuous to risk their lives trying to escape in rustic rafts from the Castroit regime, with minimal prospect of being granted asylum since the Obama administration took away the automatic asylum to Cubans rafters that reached U.S. soil.

Sandokan · Apr 23, 2019

Six Cuban rafters arrive on a Honduran island
Six Cuban rafters arrive on a Honduran island | OnCuba News - English

The group arrived last Friday in serious conditions of dehydration after two weeks at sea.
By OnCuba Staff - 04/08/2019

Cubans rafters in the Caribbean Sea

A group of six Cuban rafters arrived on a Honduran Caribbean island, an official source told ACAN-EFE, noting that some of the immigrants were dehydrated and hungry.

The Cubans arrived on Friday on a boat to the island of Guanaja, where they were helped by officers of the Naval Force and residents of the area, but their situation was only reported on Saturday afternoon, said a source from the National Institute of Migration who asked for anonymity.

The Cubans, who have already been identified, remain in the facilities of the National Institute of Migration in Guanaja, which together with Utila and Roatán make up the department of Islas de la Bahía. The authorities will decide if they will be granted permission to cross the national territory or deport them to their country of origin.

According to the rafters’ account, quoted by the Honduran authorities, they left two weeks ago aboard the raft “El Milagro,” with the idea of later continuing en route to the United States.

So far in 2019, the Honduran authorities have arrested some 3,000 foreign immigrants, including more than 140 minors, at different customs points for irregularly entering the Central American country, according to figures from the National Institute of Migration. Many of them are of Cuban nationality.

How lucky these Cuban rafters are to be alive. They left Cuba two week ago in a raft name “El Milagro” (The Miracle) and where without food and dehydrated when miraculously they arrived to the island of Guanaja in Honduras. Most probably they will be deported back to Cuba.

SDET · Apr 23, 2019

Sandokan said:
How lucky these Cuban rafters are to be alive. They left Cuba two week ago in a raft name “El Milagro” (The Miracle) and where without food and dehydrated when miraculously they arrived to the island of Guanaja in Honduras. Most probably they will be deported back to Cuba.

Wouldn't the Dominican Republic be a whole lot easier destination?

noonereal · Apr 23, 2019

Sandokan said:
Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

For 60 years we have had a failed policy toward Cuba.

Finally Obie made some changes and in comes the orange idiot and ****s it all up again.

Cuba is a few miles from us. It needs to be a part treated as a respected partner.

yankintx · Apr 23, 2019

Sandokan said:
The mainstream media bias continues to talk about how wonderful is life in Cuba, at the same time that these tragedies are happening. Lefties try to paint the Castros’ regime as a wonderful place to live, except that they have opted for living someplace else. If that is the case, why 200,000 thousands Cubans have risked their lives on makeshift rafts to escape from Dr. Castro island paradise?

Can you please cite were the MSM does as you say?

gulfman · Apr 23, 2019

noonereal said:
For 60 years we have had a failed policy toward Cuba.

Finally Obie made some changes and in comes the orange idiot and ****s it all up again.

Cuba is a few miles from us. It needs to be a part treated as a respected partner.

A guy could get parts for a 57 Chevy if that happened

Sandokan · May 18, 2019

Coast Guard, cruise ship rescue 22 people adrift in Gulf of Mexico for days
Pardon Our Interruption

The Coast Guard and the crew of the cruise ship Carnival Fantasy rescued 23 individuals on the high seas, 130 nautical miles off the Yucatan Peninsula, April 14, 2019. Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Brandon Giles U.S. Coast Guard

By The Associated Press
April 15, 2019

The U.S. Coast Guard said it worked with a cruise ship to rescue 23 people adrift for days in the Gulf of Mexico.

A Coast Guard news statement issued Sunday saying 22 Cubans started traveling on a wooden boat from Cuba to Mexico before losing power and drifting three days.

A Cuban-Mexican man took them aboard his sports fishing boat, but then its engines malfunctioned and the group drifted three more days.

The Coast Guard said it was contacted early Sunday by a brother of one of the Cubans. In addition to launching its own effort to find the disabled fishing boat, the Coast Guard alerted the Carnival Fantasy.

A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew located the disabled vessel and directed the Carnival Fantasy toward their location for rescue.
The cruise ship took the 23 people aboard within hours, about 130 nautical miles (210 kilometers) off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

The statement said two of the people rescued had minor medical issues and were treated by medical staff on the cruise ship. It added that the 23 people would be transferred Tuesday to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Coast Guard Investigative Services in Mobile, Alabama.

Another group of rafters stranded at sea for days. Cubans continue to risk their lives to escape from the island prison of Dr. Castro. Because the change in law under the Obama administration, they will be sent back to Cuba. If they had reached the Yucatan Peninsula, they would be send back. Since mid-April the Mexican government has send back to Cuba over 500 Cubans stranded in Mexico trying to reach U.S. soil.

Sandokan · Jun 5, 2019

Coast Guard nabs 10 Cuban migrants and two suspected smugglers in waters off Cuba
Coast Guard captures 10 Cuban migrants, 2 smugglers near Cuba | Miami Herald

BY HOWARD COHEN
MAY 25, 2019

A Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans small boat crew approaches a 30-foot go-fast vessel with approximately 12 miles off of Villa Clara Province, Cuba, May 20, 2019. The Coast Guard Cutter Seahawk (WPB-87343) crew repatriated the 10 Cuban migrants back to their home of origin. COAST GUARD

On the same day the Coast Guard intercepted 50 Haitian migrants on a makeshift boat near Haiti, another crew intercepted 10 Cuban migrants and two suspected smugglers 12 miles off of Villa Clara Province, Cuba.

On Monday, watchstanders with the Miami-based Coast Guard 7th District found out about an illegal departure of a 30-foot go-fast boat with 12 people aboard near Villa Clara Province. Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft crew spotted the boat and sent the Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans (WPC-1110) crew to the location where they brought 10 men and two women onto the cutter and repatriated the 10 Cuban migrants.

The two suspected smugglers were transferred into the custody of Homeland Security Investigations, the Coast Guard said in a news release Saturday.
Click link above for full article.

This have all the characteristics of a team infiltration of the Castroit regime. Coast guard surveillance monitor the illegal departure of a speed board from the Villa Clara Province, and just 12 miles off from the coast, the limit of Cuban Territorial waters, intercepted the speed boat and apprehended the two smugglers and returned the other 10 to Cuba. This is one of the methods used by the regime to infiltrate people in the U.S.

Sandokan · Jun 24, 2019

Coast Guard picks up six Cuban migrants off the Florida Keys
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BY DAVID GOODHUE
JUNE 07, 2019 02:14 PM

The Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Jr. intercepted a boat with Cuban migrants on Thursday, June 7, 2019, about 39 miles off Islamorada. /U.S. COAST GUARD

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped six Cuban migrants on a small wooden rowboat off the coast of Islamorada in the Florida Keys Thursday.

The agency was alerted to the vessel by boaters who reported the Cubans were requesting water. They were about 39 miles off the coast, according to a Coast Guard press release.

The crew of the Cutter Charles David Jr., based in Key West, took the people on board. They will be sent back to Cuba.

The Coast Guard tracks migration by fiscal year, from Oct. 1 through Sept. 30. So far this fiscal year, the agency said 308 Cubans have attempted to enter the U.S. by water. That’s compared to 384 in all of fiscal year 2018. The number includes those stopped at sea and those caught on land, according to the press release.

Since the early 1960s, desperate Cubans have escape from the island in makeshifts rafts built from scraps of wood and rope. Many South Florida boaters have encountering many empty rafts at sea or washing up with no information about their occupants. The raft has become a symbol of the Cubans persistence of risking their live to live in freedom.

Boat captain Mike Muldoon snapped a photo of this emty Cuban raft while out on his Sportfishing charter, November 2016.

Sandokan · Jul 8, 2019

On March 2016, two days before Obama visit to Cuba, according to U.S. Coast Guard a total of 18 reported Cuban migrants were picked up by Royal Caribbean’s Brilliance of the Seas, whom were suffering from severe dehydration. They started the journey 22 days before the rescue with nine more people, all of whom died along the way. This is a common tragedy in the dangerous waters of the Florida Straits when escaping on makeshifts rafts.

Sandokan · Jul 24, 2019

Coast Guard stopped 55 migrants from entering the U.S. during the 4th of July weekend
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BY GWEN FILOSA
JULY 08, 2019 05:36 PM, UPDATED JULY 08, 2019 05:59 PM

The U.S. Coast Guard says it stopped more than 50 migrants from entering the country illegally during the Fourth of July weekend in two separate at-sea incidents, including one off Key West.

On July 6, the Coast Guard Sector Key West received a tip from what it called a good Samaritan vessel that there was a 24-foot “wooden rustic vessel” carrying more than 30 people about 27 miles south of Key West, the Coast Guard said.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter William Trump intercepted 33 Cuban migrants — 27 men and six women — “due to safety concerns with the vessel,” the Coast Guard said.

On July 3, members of the Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville got tips from the vessel Bochem London of a disabled vessel with more than 20 people aboard about 130 miles northeast of Jacksonville.

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Seneca interdicted 22 Haitian migrants — 17 men, 4 women and one child, due to the same type of safety concerns with the vessel.

A Coast Guard commander said in both incidents the migrants were trying to enter the U.S. illegally.

“The Coast Guard continues to maintain a focused and coordinated effort with multiple agency assets to interdict any attempt to dangerously and unlawfully immigrate by sea to the United States,” said Commander Michael Vega, of the Coast Guard 7th District enforcement branch.

“Those who are interdicted at sea attempting to illegally immigrate will be repatriated to their country in accordance with existing U.S. immigration policy,” Vega said.

Even under the old “wet foot, dry foot” U.S. immigration policy toward Cuba, the Cuban migrants would have been sent home. The policy mandated that any Cuban national caught at sea would be returned. Those who made land could stay and apply for permanent residency after a year.

The Obama administration, in one of its last major foreign policy moves, ended the policy as it reestablished diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Cubans rafter are caught between a rock and a hard place, facing insurmountable odds trying to escape from the prison island in makeshifts rafts. Only a handful reach U.S. soil and evade to be caught by U.S. authorities.

Sandokan · Aug 6, 2019

Five Cubans discovered on makeshift sailboat in Florida Keys, US Coast Guard says
Five Cubans discovered on makeshift sailboat in Florida Keys, US Coast Guard says | Fox News

By Danielle Wallace | Fox News

Members of the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a makeshift sailboat off the coast of the Florida Keys on Friday afternoon and discovered five Cuban nationals on board, officials said.

The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Miami spotted the rustic vessel 38 miles south of Key Largo, an island part of Monroe County, Fla., located in the upper Florida Keys.

A Coast Guard crew based in Islamorada intercepted the boat and found the five Cubans on board, the station said on Facebook. All of the boat's passengers were male, the Miami Herald reported.

The occupants of the boat were transferred to the Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Jr., a vessel assigned to serve in Key West. The five will be brought back to Cuba.

In May, the Coast Guard intercepted a boat with 10 Cuban migrants and two smugglers on board, 12 miles off the coast of Villa Clara Province, Cuba. The crew repatriated the 10 Cubans. The two suspected smugglers were transferred into the custody of Homeland Security, the Herald reported.

Cuban rafters will continuous trying to escape from the Castroit regime hoping to make it to the U.S. soil undetected. So far Mexico has deported over 1,000 Cubans migrants back to Cuba that were at the U.S.-Mexican border hoping to get asylum in the U.S. Without any legal way to come to the U.S, the rafters’ number will be increasing.

Sandokan · Aug 22, 2019

Coast Guard intercepts 27 Cuban migrants near Key West
Coast Guard intercepts 27 Cuban migrants near Key West – WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale

August 1, 2019

OFF KEY WEST, Fla. (WSVN) – The U.S. Coast Guard have stopped dozens of Cuban migrants at sea near Key West.

The Coast Guard intercepted their wooden vessel five miles south of Key West, Saturday.
Twenty-seven migrants from Cuba were on board the boat, and they will be sent back to the island.

They were only 5 miles to reach U.S. soil and escaping to freedom. Their chances of been granted asylum is practically nil. Poor people, what a back luck. I feel sorry for them.

Nickyjo · Aug 22, 2019

Sandokan said:
The mainstream media bias continues to talk about how wonderful is life in Cuba, at the same time that these tragedies are happening. Lefties try to paint the Castros’ regime as a wonderful place to live, except that they have opted for living someplace else. If that is the case, why 200,000 thousands Cubans have risked their lives on makeshift rafts to escape from Dr. Castro island paradise?

In many cases, much the same reason people used to leave Haiti and now flee Central America. Difference is that Cubans have been given special treatment by the US due to geopolitics for decades. No kids in cages, no talk of Muslims traveling with boat people, toothbrushes upon arrival. If the same status had been given to Guatemalans since the 1950s, a similar number would have fled. From my work with Cuban refugees, it seemed they understood this, even if anti-Castro conservatives don’t.

Nickyjo · Aug 22, 2019

Sandokan said:
They were only 5 miles to reach U.S. soil and escaping to freedom. Their chances of been granted asylum is practically nil. Poor people, what a back luck. I feel sorry for them.

So do I. The ridiculous rule as I understood it used to be that if you reached shore, you might be able to apply for asylum. If caught in the waves, no. US policy has hardly worked, and Cubans suffer because of it. This is not to excuse the Cuban government, but if instead of a total embargo of the island we had US tourists wandering around it the past 60 years, the dictatorship would have ended.

Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

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