Dry Tortugas National Park is closed while authorities process the migrants, amid a recent uptick in arrivals to the Florida Keys.
reached land in the middle and upper Florida Keys over the weekend. Sheriff Rick Ramsay blamed Washington in a statement, saying the refugees’ arrival “shows a lack of a working plan by the federal government to deal with a mass migration issue that was foreseeable” and describing the development as a “humanitarian crisis.”
Lt. Cmdr. John Beal, a spokesman for the Coast Guard’s Seventh District and the Homeland Security Task Force Southeast, did not agree with the sheriff’s characterization, saying the recent influx can be attributed in part to “unseasonably good weather.”“I cannot speak on behalf of the sheriff,” he said via text message, “but I would not say this is a crisis.
Mild weather in recent days, he suggested, makes conditions more suitable to “very dangerous maritime ventures” that attempt to enter the United States by sea. The Coast Guard interdicted 4,076 Cuban migrants in the last three months of the 2022 calendar year, according tofrom the Seventh District. There were 6,182 interdictions in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, and 838 in the 2021 fiscal year.
During the first 11 months of 2022, U.S. authorities noted a record 270,000 unauthorized crossings by Cubans along the U.S.-Mexico
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