WASHINGTON — U.S. officials in South Florida have seen a 400% increase in migrant encounters this fiscal year compared to the same period last year, Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz said Wednesday.
"In the past five days, interagency efforts in the Miami Sector led to discovering 26 smuggling events, totaling nearly 600 migrants," Ortiz said in a Tweet."Since October 1, 2022, Miami Sector has seen a 400% increase in migrant encounters over the same time period last year."
Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys announced Monday it would close to the public after an increase in migrant landings over the past few days shut down operations at the park there. Also, crew members from the Carnival Celebration cruise line noticed five people about 29 miles northwest of Cuba on Monday and stopped to help them, company spokesperson Matt Lupoli told ABC News in a statement.Other parts of the country have also seen large swaths of people trying to enter the U.S.
Much of that work has been done under the Title 42 public health order, which was enforced in the early days of COVID-19, that allows for the speedy removal of migrants without giving them opportunities to apply for asylum.
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