Florida Highway Patrol stops Cuban migrants in the Keys

Agents of the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) stopped a group of migrants Cubans who disembarked in one of the Florida Keysan unusual fact reported by a local media amid the wave of maritime migration that has forced the state government to mobilize National Guard troops.

Six FHP agents responded to at least one of the landings of Cubans on the US1 interstate highway in the section of Key Largo, an event that occurred early today after not having reported any landings yesterday Saturday, according to the Miami Herald.

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According to the newspaper, that number of FHP agents, who usually handle incidents on state highways, is the one that is usually assigned to patrol the more than 120 miles (193 km) of roads in the Keys daily.

One of the FHP agents confirmed to the aforementioned outlet that he had been mobilized from continental soil to support the Border Patrol (CBP) amid massive arrivals of Haitians and Cubans to the island chain.

In the photographs distributed today by the Miami Herald you can see the group of detained Cubans, at least twenty.

Walter N. Slosar, head of CBP’s Miami Sector, reported today via Twitter of at least two landings in the Keys, with the arrest of 53 Cubans. Four of them were taken to a local hospital and treated for dehydration, he said.

The massive arrival of undocumented immigrants in boats to the south of the state has caused a humanitarian crisis and forced the authorities to channel resources to attend to more than a thousand who arrived last weekend at the Dry Tortuga National Park and the Florida Keysaccording to federal authorities.

Florida Governor, Ron DeSantissigned an executive order this Friday that allows him to mobilize National Guard troops and allocate new state resources to face the migratory wave that affects the south of the state, as well as “help relieve pressure on local resources”.

The executive order will allow the state to “deploy air assets, including Florida National Guard planes and helicopters”, indicates a statement from the governor’s office.

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The Republican DeSantis argues in his executive order that, only in the first two months of the current fiscal year (it began on October 1), the Border Patrol (CBP) has detained more than 460,000 people trying to enter the country through the southwestern border.

Slosar pointed out in a recent statement that since October 1, 2022 this sector has experienced a 400% increase in people who arrive by sea and are detained upon disembarking.

So far this fiscal year 2023, that is, since last October 1, the Coast Guard has intercepted 3,839 Cubans at sea, a significant escalation of arrests compared to the 838 intercepted in the entire fiscal year of 2021 and the 6,182 in 2022.

Source: Elcomercio

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