KEY WEST (CBSMiami) – Nearly a dozen Cuban migrants made landfall within the Keys on Sunday.
According to U.S. Border Patrol, 11 individuals arrived on a picket fishing vessel close to Smathers Beach.
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CBS4 was informed they had been medically screened and brought into custody.
The group will doubtless be repatriated at a later date.
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The fishing boat the migrants arrived on. (Source: Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar / Twitter)
Since Oct. 1, 2021, Coast Guard crews interdicted 1,257 Cubans in comparison with:
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5,396 Cuban Migrants in Fiscal Year 2016
1,468 Cuban Migrants in Fiscal Year 2017
259 Cuban Migrants in Fiscal Year 2018
313 Cuban Migrants in Fiscal Year 2019
49 Cuban Migrants in Fiscal Year 2020
838 Cuban Migrants in Fiscal Year 2021