More than 500 Cubans arrived in South Florida during the holiday weekend in makeshift, largely motorless boats. Most drifted up in the Florida Keys and at Dry Tortugas National Park, some 70 miles from Key West.
So many migrants crowded into the park that it had to be closed as a destination for tourists, who inadvertently got to see our ruptured immigration system at work firsthand. Many of the migrants floated to Dry Tortugas. Tourists’ videos show them jumping and swimming or running to make it to shore.
They found support from one Cuban exile who shot video of their arrival. “You’re here now; you made it!” he says on the video. And when someone off camera makes a comment, the videographer shoots back: “You don’t know what they have lived through, bro.”
