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13 Cuban refugees in makeshift dinghy arrested after washing up in Florida Keys as migration attempts from Communist country SKYROCKET amid economic crisis

• United States Border Patrol agents detained 13 Cuban migrants who fled their country amid an economic downturn to the Florida Keys on Tuesday
• Border Patrol Agency spokesman Adam Hoffner expects they will be deported back to their home country
• Their arrival comes amid a surge in migration from Cuba, as it struggles with an economic downturn
• In the past, Cubans who made it to sea level in Florida were able to apply for permanent citizenship but former President Obama overturned the policy
• Since then, the federal government reports, migration has declined
• But it is once again increasing amid an economic crisis, increased sanctions from the former Trump administration and cutbacks in aid from Venezuela

By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED:15:44 EDT, 2 September 2021

A makeshift boat packed with 13 Cuban migrants landed in the Florida Keys before they were arrested by US Border Patrol - the latest desperate refugees in a growing wave who risk their lives to flee the economically-ravaged country.

The group filled the boat with supplies they used to survive the 90-mile voyage from Cuba to a Key West beach before they were detained by customs agents on Tuesday.

Agents responded to Higgs Beach at about 6:45 a.m. to find a dozen men and one woman who said they had left Cuba the day before, Adam Hoffner, the agency’s spokesman, told the Miami Herald.

He expects the migrants to be deported back to Cuba, where they can face jail or even harsher punishment from the Communist regime.

Their detention marks the second time in four days that Cubans have made it to the shore of the Florida Keys, the Herald reports, as migration attempts skyrocket across the island nation.



The migrants traveled from Cuba to the Florida Keys in a makeshift boat filled with supplies they needed for the trek



Border Patrol Chief Agent Thomas G. Martin announced on Twitter on Tuesday that 13 Cuban migrants who arrived in the Florida Keys have been detained

On Saturday, the Coast Guard said, a good Samaritan spotted a man floating on a raft near Fowkey Rocks, a few miles from Key Biscayne.

The man said he had been adrift for 10 days after he left Cuba with three other people who died on the journey, and needed immediate medical help.

And on Friday, another 14 immigrants made it to the Upper Keys in a rustic wooden boat, and told officials they were at sea for six days.

Federal officials say there has been a spike in migration from Cuba, which has been wracked by street protests not seen since before former leader Fidel Castro came into power. The United States Coast Guard has stopped 648 Cubans in Florida's waters - more than the previous three years combined - since last October 1.

The Coast Guard stopped just 49 migrants from Cuba in the fiscal year that ended in September 2020. In 2019, they stopped 313 and in 2018 they stopped 259.

The number of Cubans making the dangerous journey across the Florida Straits fell significantly after former President Barack Obama ended the so-called 'wet foot, dry foot' policy in early 2017, according to federal data obtained by the Herald.

The policy allowed Cuban migrants who set foot on United States land above the high-water mark to stay in the country and apply for permanent residency, but in turn required those caught at sea to be returned to Cuba.

Before it was overturned, the Herald reports, immigration authorities in South Florida were dealing with multiple landings or attempted landings each week.

In 2016, there were 5,396 migrants stopped in the waters, compared with just 1,486 the year after.

The rule change has forced many Cuban migrants to find a different path for asylum into the United States, not unlike the large numbers of Venezuelans and Central Americans crossing the US-Mexico border.

Customs and Border Protection data obtained by the Washington Post shows that Cubans have made 26,000 attempts to cross the land border this fiscal year, up from 14,000 all of last year.

Javier Fernandez, a former Democratic state representative from Miami, said the rise of the progressive wing in his party may be at play for turning away Cubans coming by sea instead of land.

'There's a concern by some in the party that if we condemn what happens in Cuba, that we're somehow making a moral judgment on the most progressive elements of our party who have described themselves as Democratic Socialists,' he told Politico.

'That concern ... is a false equivalence that only hurts Democrats here in the United States and in South Florida in particular.'

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Biden/Obama Is Sending Cuban Refugees Back to Cuba But Unvetted Soldier Age Men from Afghanistan Are Welcomed with Open Arms

By Joe Hoft
Published September 2, 2021 at 5:30pm



We heard in July that the Biden/Obama Administration will not allow Cubans into the country as refugees.



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The Gateway Pundit

In late July the Biden/Obama Administration sent refugees back to Cuba.



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The Gateway Pundit

Over the weekend, 13 Cubans were apprehended and processed for what according to the Biden/Obama policy will be a short trip back to communist Cuba.

The 13 Cubans who were apprehended on Tuesday were interviewed by the Border Patrol, processed for removal proceedings and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.

If you are a refugee from a communist nation then you have no chance of staying in the US in this administration. You will be sent back. Unvetted men from Afghanistan are welcome.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/09/biden-obama-sending-cuban-refugees-back-cuba-unvetted-soldier-age-men-afghanistan-welcomed-open-arms/

100% of them need to be sent back no matter where they came from.

Do not discriminate...send them ALL back and their offspring.