MIAMI — About 2,000 migrants from Haiti and Cuba have risked their lives sailing to Florida to flee from political and economic turmoil in their home countries since Oct. 1, according to federal authorities.
On Sunday afternoon, over 350 migrants from Haiti arrived in an overloaded wooden boat that grounded offshore from an exclusive gated community in northern Key Largo, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement the next day. In videos posted on social media, many were seen trying to swim to shore.
In about five months, from Oct. 1 of last year to the first week of March, the Coast Guard has stopped 1,152 Haitians at sea, the military branch said.
