The U.S. Border Patrol rescued six Cuban immigrants who were traveling in Oba Luca, Florida, trapped in the back of a smugglers’ truck.
Agent Walter N. Slusar, the chief of border guards for the Miami sector, tweeted that the accident occurred Thursday, during a review at a traffic station.
He also stated that the alleged smuggler had been arrested.
“The incident is being investigated by the Miami Homeland Security office,” said Slusar, who posted pictures of the car with the door closed.
The Cuban immigration crisis is manifested in the increasing number of immigrants arriving in the United States every day.
Only on Monday the authorities arrested 54 rafters who fell Through three different points of the keys to that state. Slusar commented on these migrants who were “detained” after “arrival in makeshift boats”.
Cuban interceptions in the Florida Straits have already risen to 4,000 during the current fiscal year that began on October 1, 2021, a number independent of Border Patrol arrests in the same period.
Cubans are also increasingly arriving along the land border. Their arrival at the border with Mexico and Canada saw a new peak of 177,848 registered asylum-seekers at the end of July, according to official figures revealed on Tuesday.
Less than two months from the end of the 2022 fiscal year The influx of Cubans by land has broken a new recordwhich represents the largest mass irregular migration from the Caribbean nation in the history of the United States.
Statistics from Customs and Border Protection (CBP) show that during July, the Cuban avalanche across the border strip of US territory rose to 20,496, after a slight decrease in June, when 16,448 were reported.
The reality has far exceeded the expectations of experts and the US authorities themselves, who predicted the illegal entry of more than 150,000 Cuban immigrants at the end of the 2022 fiscal year.
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