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41 Cuban migrants detained in 2 separate landfalls in the Florida Keys
MONROE COUNTY, Fla. – The U.S. Border Patrol detained 41 Cuban migrants who arrived within the Florida Keys on Sunday, Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar confirmed on Monday.
In accordance with Slosar, who heads the Border Patrol’s Miami sector, 31 of the migrants made landfall within the Marquesas Keys and the opposite 10 got here ashore in Islamorada.
All are anticipated to be repatriated to Cuba.
The landings, which require an often-treacherous and typically lethal voyage throughout the Straits of Florida, come amid a mass exodus from the economically-distressed island.
On Saturday, Border Patrol officers confirmed one other 27 migrants had been taken into custody after their vessels made landfall on Lengthy Key and the Marquesas Keys.
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Additionally on Saturday, the U.S. Coast Guard returned greater than 200 migrants intercepted at sea to the island. They’ve intercepted greater than 4,000 Cubans at sea over the present fiscal yr.
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