MIAMI — The steady arrival of migrants continued in the Florida Keys on Wednesday with a group of 19 people from Cuba in Key Colony Beach, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
They arrived in the MIddle Keys city on a small wooden boat, Walter Slosar, the Border Patrol’s head agent of Miami operations, said in a statement on Twitter.
The landing is part of the largest maritime exodus from Cuba in nearly 10 years. Last fiscal year, which ended in October, was the busiest year for the Coast Guard patrolling the Florida Straits for migrants since the 2008 fiscal year.
