Over 1,000 migrants have made the risky trip to Florida since Oct. Will they keep coming?
BY OMAR RODRÍGUEZ ORTIZ UPDATED MARCH 07, 2022 12:41 PM Play VideoDuration 0:14
Hundreds of Haitian migrants land in the Florida Keys A video shows U.S. Coast Guard crews transferring Haitian migrants from one ship to another on March 6, 2022. BY U.S. COAST GUARD More than a thousand migrants from Haiti and Cuba have risked their lives sailing to Florida to flee from the political and economic turmoil in their home countries since Oct. 1., according to federal authorities.
On Sunday afternoon, about 300 migrants from Haiti arrived in an overloaded wooden boat offshore from an exclusive gated community in northern Key Largo. More than half swam to shore and many needed medical attention.
In five months, from Oct. 1 of last year to March 1, the U.S. Coast Guard had already stopped 993 Haitians at sea, the military branch said last week in a statement. Now that number is set to increase significantly with the most recent arrival. TOP VIDEOS
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