Cuban migrants are still arriving by boat in the Florida Keys even as the Biden administration promises a crackdown.
Buses carrying Cuban migrants leave from U.S. Coast Guard Sector Key West, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023, in Key West, Fla. Homeland Security officials said 337 migrants were taken Thursday by Coast Guard cutter from Dry Tortugas National Park on a 70-mile trip to Key West for processing. – Yoandri Sánchez Sánchez arrived in the Florida Keys just before sunrise Thursday with 22 other Cubans on a makeshift, motorized raft they built themselves.
Sánchez was waiting to receive documents at a Border Patrol office in the Keys that will allow him to enter the U.S. and work — at least for now. Because Washington and Havana don't have diplomatic relations, there is no way for the U.S. government to send him and other Cubans back. He has family in Florida who can help him, but he left behind his parents, his wife, two brothers and two grandsons.
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay, whose jurisdiction is most of the 180-mile Florida Keys island chain, said the influx is taxing his 194-deputy department and he wants the Democratic president and his administration to do more.
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