United States Border Patrol officials have taken into custody 41 people from Cuba who arrived on U.S. shores after traversing the Florida Straits on makeshift rafts and rowboats.
Nine illegal migrants were taken into custody on Saturday after arriving on Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach County in Florida. They were caught after border patrol agents and local law enforcement responded to a “maritime smuggling event that made landfall in Jupiter Island,” Walter N. Slosar, the Chief Patrol Agent of the Miami Sector, said in a July 16 tweet.
The nine individuals came in a rowboat that appeared to have some weights covered in trash bags on the exterior. Later that day, 32 additional illegal immigrants who arrived in the Florida Keys in what seemed to be a makeshift boat were also taken into custody….