Florida Straits now seeing most migrant activity in over 4 years, Coast Guard says
A law enforcement team from the cutter interdicted 16 Cuban migrants from the craft. (Petty Officer
June 20, 2021 David Goodhue - the Florida Keys Keynoter
As of Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard has stopped more people from Cuba trying to migrate across the Florida Straits since the Obama administration ended the so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy in early 2017.
In the months prior to the end of the Cold War-era policy that allowed Cubans who set foot on U.S. soil above the high water mark to remain in the country, maritime migration spiked because of thawing diplomatic relations between Washington and the Castro regime.
The federal government tracks migration by fiscal year, starting Oct. 1. In Fiscal year 2016, the Coast Guard stopped 5,396 Cuban migrants. In the beginning of fiscal year 2017, several boats a week were being stopped or had landed in South Florida full of people anticipating the end of “wet-foot, dry foot” — with a total of 1,468 people caught at sea.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/06/florida-straits-now-seeing-most-migrant-activity-in-over-4-years-coast-guard-says/
