MIAMI — Border Patrol agents assigned to the Florida Keys have taken into custody up to 150 people from Cuba since last Wednesday as the migrant exodus from the island nation to the archipelago is on track to reach a seven-year high.
Since Oct. 1, the Border Patrol has responded to more than 216 landings in the Keys and encountered over 3,000 migrants from both Cuba and Haiti, Walter Slosar, chief Border Patrol agent for South Florida, said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon on Twitter.
During that same time frame, the U.S. Coast Guard has stopped 4,822 Cubans along the Florida Straits trying to reach South Florida, the service said Monday after releasing a statement saying that it had just returned 30 people to Cuba who were intercepted at sea during several interdictions since Friday.
