Thread: FL-Man who may be Cuban migrant is in custody in Dania Beach

Man who may be Cuban migrant is in custody in Dania Beach


11:47 AM EDT, July 21, 2009


A man who may have fled Cuba and arrived in South Florida today is being interviewed at a U.S. Border Patrol station in Dania Beach, a Border Patrol official says.

Border Patrol officials early today responded to a report of a Cuban man wandering near the Rickenbacker Causeway near Key Biscayne, said Elee Erice, the Border Patrol's Miami sector spokeswoman.

The man told officials he was brought to South Florida from Cuba in a speed boat, and that the boat's driver and other occupants left the scene after dropping him off. Officials searched for the boat but didn't find it, Erice said.

The man was then taken to the Border Patrol station at 1800 NE 7th Ave. in Dania Beach, where officials were interviewing him and checking the authenticity of his story.

Erice said the man likely would be released on his own recognizance, under a policy of returning people intercepted at sea to Cuba's communist government.

The policy is called "wet-foot, dry-foot" -- wet for those caught at sea, dry for those who reach land in Florida and thus qualify for U.S. entry.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc ... 0164.story

Man who may be Cuban migrant is in custody in Dania Beach


11:47 AM EDT, July 21, 2009


A man who may have fled Cuba and arrived in South Florida today is being interviewed at a U.S. Border Patrol station in Dania Beach, a Border Patrol official says.

Border Patrol officials early today responded to a report of a Cuban man wandering near the Rickenbacker Causeway near Key Biscayne, said Elee Erice, the Border Patrol's Miami sector spokeswoman.

The man told officials he was brought to South Florida from Cuba in a speed boat, and that the boat's driver and other occupants left the scene after dropping him off. Officials searched for the boat but didn't find it, Erice said.

The man was then taken to the Border Patrol station at 1800 NE 7th Ave. in Dania Beach, where officials were interviewing him and checking the authenticity of his story.

Erice said the man likely would be released on his own recognizance, under a policy of returning people intercepted at sea to Cuba's communist government.

The policy is called "wet-foot, dry-foot" -- wet for those caught at sea, dry for those who reach land in Florida and thus qualify for U.S. entry.


http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc ... 0164.story

send him to gitno and allow him to walk out the fence into cuba

the wetfoot dryfoot thing needs to go

send him to gitno and allow him to walk out the fence into cuba

the wetfoot dryfoot thing needs to go