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#Breaking @USCG Cutter Charles David Jr.'s crew repatriated 64 Cubans and a dog to #Cuba, Wednesday.

"No one should risk their lives on unsafe rustic vessels in unpredictable seas," said PO2 Ryan Dickinson, Coast Guard District Seven.

Read:https://t.co/JhQAdFMzSA
@USEmbCuba

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Photos Available: Coast Guard repatriates 64 people, 1 dog to Cuba

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News Release U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast Contact: 7th District Public Affairs Office: 305-415-6683 After Hours: 786-812-6230 7th District online newsroom Coast Guard repatriates 64 people, 1 dog to Cuba Editor's Note: Click on images to download high-resolution version. To download Cuban interdiction process video, click this link. Family members in the United States inquiring about possible family members interdicted at sea, please contact your local U.S. representative. Para personas que

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#Breaking @USCG Cutter Charles David Jr.'s crew repatriated 64 Cubans and a dog to #Cuba, Wednesday.

"No one should risk their lives on unsafe rustic vessels in unpredictable seas," said PO2 Ryan Dickinson, Coast Guard District Seven.

Read:https://t.co/JhQAdFMzSA
@USEmbCuba https://t.co/XURbGYwIIB

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#Breaking @USCG Cutter Charles David Jr.'s crew repatriated 64 Cubans and a dog to #Cuba, Wednesday.

"No one should risk their lives on unsafe rustic vessels in unpredictable seas," said PO2 Ryan Dickinson, Coast Guard District Seven.

Read:https://t.co/JhQAdFMzSA@USEmbCuba pic.twitter.com/XURbGYwIIB
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) August 31, 2022

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News Release U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast Contact: 7th District Public Affairs Office: 305-415-6683 After Hours: 786-812-6230 7th District online newsroom Coast Guard repatriates 64 people, 1 dog to Cuba Editor's Note: Click on images to download high-resolution version. To download Cuban interdiction process video, click this link. Family members in the United States inquiring about possible family members interdicted at sea, please contact your local U.S. representative. Para personas que

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#Breaking @USCG Cutter Charles David Jr.'s crew repatriated 64 Cubans and a dog to #Cuba, Wednesday.

"No one should risk their lives on unsafe rustic vessels in unpredictable seas," said PO2 Ryan Dickinson, Coast Guard District Seven.

Read:https://t.co/JhQAdFMzSA
@USEmbCuba https://t.co/XURbGYwIIB

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#Breaking @USCG Cutter Charles David Jr.'s crew repatriated 64 Cubans and a dog to #Cuba, Wednesday.

"No one should risk their lives on unsafe rustic vessels in unpredictable seas," said PO2 Ryan Dickinson, Coast Guard District Seven.

Read:https://t.co/JhQAdFMzSA
@USEmbCuba https://t.co/XURbGYwIIB

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#Breaking @USCG Cutter Charles David Jr.'s crew repatriated 64 Cubans and a dog to #Cuba, Wednesday.

"No one should risk their lives on unsafe rustic vessels in unpredictable seas," said PO2 Ryan Dickinson, Coast Guard District Seven.

Read:https://t.co/JhQAdFMzSA
@USEmbCuba

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Photos Available: Coast Guard repatriates 64 people, 1 dog to Cuba

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News Release U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast Contact: 7th District Public Affairs Office: 305-415-6683 After Hours: 786-812-6230 7th District online newsroom Coast Guard repatriates 64 people, 1 dog to Cuba Editor's Note: Click on images to download high-resolution version. To download Cuban interdiction process video, click this link. Family members in the United States inquiring about possible family members interdicted at sea, please contact your local U.S. representative. Para personas que

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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - The number of migrants risking their lives on the open ocean to get to South Florida is again on the increase.

From Haiti and from Cuba, more than 200 migrants have been apprehended by U.S. border officials in just the last week.

In one case, the Coast Guard intercepted a sailboat with more than 150 migrants near Boca Chita Key on July 21. Those on board were believed to be Haitian migrants.

And on July 22, 14 Cuban migrants were taken into custody in the Florida Keys.

"It's not good. It's not pretty," said Haitian immigrant Salusa Basquin.

Basquin said he sees himself on one of those boats, taking the treacherous trek on homemade boats or packed unto an unsafe vessel.

"I definitely do think if I was still there, not here teaching U.S. history, I would be one of those migrants. I would probably be one of the individuals on the boat trying to find a better life," Basquin said.

As rising violence takes its toll back in Haiti, Basquin said more and more people are taking that dangerous journey to the U.S. He said Haiti has become overrun with gangs wreaking havoc and state sponsored violence.

"We have violence, we have kidnappings, and we're gonna see a whole lot more," Basquin said.

From October of 2021 to late June, Coast Guard crews interdicted more than 6,100 Haitian migrants. That's more than four times the number of Haitians apprehended in 2021 and more than 14 times the amount from 2020

Also since October of 2021, the Coast Guard has interdicted more than 3,500 Cuban migrants. That's also more than four times the number of Cubans apprehended in 2021 and more than 70 times the amount from 2020.

"These cases where they are taking their life in their hands and putting their lives at risk, I mean, it speaks for itself. They are fleeing true oppression," said immigration attorney Richard Hujber.

Hujber said the dangerous migrations will likely continue until the violence ends and the root of the problem is addressed.

"The borders are getting worse, that's for sure," Hujber said. "You have a fear you're going to be granted asylum, and that's never going to change until we have some new laws put in."

Earlier this week, WPTV spoke to a Cuban-American writer. He said that political oppression in Cuba following public protests last year is what is fueling those leaving the island right now. But for many Cuban migrants, the journey ends right back where they started.

"Right now, the U.S. is sending back a lot of people, sending back to Cuba," said Carlos Martinez.

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Growing number of migrants risking lives to get to South Florida

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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. - The number of migrants risking their lives on the open ocean to get to South Florida is again on the increase. From Haiti and from Cuba, more than 200 migrants have been apprehended by U.S. border officials in just the last week.

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Dave Sherwood is reporter. Physically in Havana?

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HAVANA, June 17 (Reuters) - Cuban Miguel Palenzuela, 52, and his wife Ania have been waiting for a month outside Colombia's embassy in Havana in hopes of securing a visa to travel through the South American nation.

Palenzuela, who commutes almost daily from Guanabacoa, outside the capital, says he would prefer an appointment but the website crashes. Other embassies are as bad or worse, he says.

"There are too many barriers," Palenzuela says, shaded from the summer Caribbean sun beneath a mango tree. "It's as if they don't want us Cubans to travel."

The Colombian embassy told Reuters its systems had been swamped by the "large number" of applicants, and said the country's upcoming presidential elections had also slowed service.

Reuters this week spoke with nearly two dozen people waiting in lines outside the embassies of Colombia, Mexico, and Panama, countries often used as jumping-off points for irregular migration north to the United States.

The Cubans Reuters spoke with either declined to elaborate on the reason for their travels or said they were shopping or traveling for tourism.

But all expressed frustration as diplomatic and bureaucratic bottlenecks at home and abroad grow for Cubans seeking to leave the island amid a growing economic crisis.

Over 140,000 Cubans have been encountered by authorities at the U.S. border with Mexico since October, U.S. figures show, among the largest migrations off the island in decades.

Cuba blames the United States for priming the pump of illegal migration by maintaining a Cold War-era economic embargo while cutting off consular services in Havana for Cubans.

The United States last week agreed to facilitate "legal pathways" for migrants at the Summit of the Americas, which excluded Cuban government representatives. Washington resumed visa processing in Havana in May and aims to issue 20,000 immigrant visas to Cubans a year. read more

It's a crack in the door, but still falls short, said Michael Bustamante at the University of Miami.

"We should welcome the long-awaited restoration of consular services at the U.S. embassy in Havana," he said. "But compared to the demand, 20,000 ... seems like a drop in the bucket."

POLITICS ASIDE

Outside the embassies of several Latin American countries in Havana, the diplomatic discourse of recent months is lost in a haze of heat, long lines and fast-changing requirements.

With options for legal migration through the United States limited, many opt to fly to Nicaragua, which in November lifted visa requirements for Cubans, then try their luck on the risky overland route north to the U.S. border. read more

Soaring costs, however, have led many to seek alternate flights through Panama, Colombia and Costa Rica, among others.

A range of visa requirements, old and new, in those countries has led to confusion and frustration, said Yaneris Betancourt, 37, who traveled more than four hours on public transport from Matanzas, outside Havana, for her appointment at Panama's embassy.

Betancourt said she too had struggled to navigate embassy websites - Cubans often have access to the internet only by phone with spotty coverage - and missed two flights because of the delays.

And most recently, a Cuban Central Bank measure prompted some embassies to temporarily halt services or charge for visas in dollars or euros, foreign currencies available to Cubans primarily via remittances or the black market.

"Many people have had to drop everything because they've not had the strength to continue," Betancourt said on Monday as she waited in a park near the embassy with more than 75 others.

Outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, the only legal avenue available on-island for migration to the United States, the scene was comparatively tranquil.

Odanis Gonzalez on Wednesday sat quietly on a park bench, waiting with her daughter to enter the embassy. She said the U.S. decision to restart consular services on the island was the best way forward.

"We should all have the right to this path, the correct one," she said, "and not have to risk our lives."

Reporting by Dave Sherwood; Additional reporting by Nelson Acosta and Reuters TV; Editing by Dave Graham

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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HAVANA, June 17 (Reuters) - Cuban Miguel Palenzuela, 52, and his wife Ania have been waiting for a month outside Colombia's embassy in Havana in hopes of securing a visa to travel through the South American nation. Palenzuela, who commutes almost daily from Guanabacoa, outside the capital, says he would prefer an appointment but the website crashes.

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113 Haitian migrants in custody after boat runs aground off Florida coast | Fox News
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Border patrol took 113 Haitian migrants into custody after their sailing-vessel ran aground off the coast of Florida Saturday afternoon.

The boat was spotted off the coast of Key Largo, near the gated community of Ocean Reef, officials said.

Rescue crews transferred the people from the grounded vessel to Coast Guard ships, with some entering the water without life jackets and needed to be rescued by crew members.

Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar, who heads the agency's Miami sector, said in a Twitter post that agents are working to keep the migrants "safe, clean, fed and healthy and identify exactly who they are and what they may or may not have wrong with them."
JONES RIPS LAWMAKERS OVER BORDER CRISIS: THEY WERE ALL ABOUT COMPASSION UNTIL THEY WERE ON THEIR LAWNS
The area off the coast of northern Key Largo has been a frequent destination of Haitian migrants since November.

"This is an ongoing investigation, and we are trying to identify the smugglers who crammed these people onto that vessel," Slosar said.

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Border patrol took 113 Haitian migrants into custody after their sailing-vessel ran aground off the coast of Florida Saturday afternoon. The boat was spotted off the coast of Key Largo, near the gated community of Ocean Reef, officials said.

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U.S. Coast Guard has stopped more than 5,000 Haitians at sea Miami Herald (msnbc.com)

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"They just don't see a future, they don't see tomorrow:" Miami Herald Caribbean Correspondent Jacqueline Charles on why a record number of people are leaving Haiti.

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Boat carrying 300 Haitian migrants capsizes near Florida coast | Migration News | Al Jazeera

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The boat with about 300 migrants aboard got into trouble off the Florida Keys in the US, and 163 people swam to shore [United States Border Patrol via AP]

A wooden boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants capsized in shallow water off the coast of the US state of Florida, officials said, and many needed medical attention.

The United States Coast Guard and other agencies rushed on Sunday to help the group of migrants, which included women and children. Border Patrol officials said human smuggling is suspected and an investigation is ongoing.

"Multiple agencies responded quickly & worked closely to protect a lot of lives today," US Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Jason Neiman said in a tweet.

Our priority is keeping everyone safe after this dangerous voyage and grounding. "Multiple agencies responded quickly & worked closely to protect a lot of lives today." - Lt. Cmdr. Jason Neiman, #CoastGuard District Seven. @mcsonews @MyFWC @MiamiDadeFire pic.twitter.com/4SrZSgLShK

- USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) March 7, 2022

Approximately 300 migrants were aboard the boat, Border Protection Chief Patrol Agent Walter N Slosar said, and 163 people swam to the shore. Many of the migrants, he said, were in need of medical attention. Coast guard images showed the boat tilted on its side and a large group of Haitians draped in towels on the shore.

The development comes amid worsening political and economic conditions in Haiti in the aftermath of the assassination of President Jovenel Moise last July. The situation has the potential to deteriorate even further amid a political deadlock over elections.

Interim Prime Minister Ariel Henry's term in office ended on February 7, but no new election date has yet been set - setting off a legitimacy crisis and compounding the Caribbean nation's economic troubles.

Meanwhile, armed gangs have expanded their grip on the country, causing a spike in violence and insecurity.

#BREAKINGNEWS: SMUGGLERS OVERLOAD VESSEL!#BorderPatrol agents & partner agencies are responding to another dangerous situation in the #FloridaKeys involving approx. 300 migrants...many in need of medical attention, 163 of them swam to shore. @USCGSoutheast @CBPAMORegDirSE pic.twitter.com/cK0fILl3fI

- Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar (@USBPChiefMIP) March 6, 2022

Haiti is reeling from a host of other crises. In 2010, it was rocked by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that killed an estimated 360,000 people. The powerful earthquake devastated much of the country, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic. Amid persistent insecurity and political instability, Haiti has struggled to rebuild.

A growing number of Haitians have been fleeing the country in search of safety and work. Many have headed towards the United States and countries in Latin America. Most Haitians try to cross into the US by land through the US-Mexico border, but others have been taking to the sea.

Last month, the Dominican Republic began constructing a border wall to keep out migrants and tackle smuggling.

In January, an unseaworthy boat carrying 176 Haitians was stopped by US border officials near the coast in Florida. Later that same month, 38 people were reported missing after their boat capsized off the same coast. Those on board were believed to be Haitians.

But the US continues to expel the majority of migrants - including Haitians - under a coronavirus pandemic rule that allows border officials to quickly turn back migrants to their country of origin, or to Mexico, without processing their asylum claims.

In September last year, some 15,000 Haitian migrants gathered in south Texas hoping to claim asylum. But US authorities cleared out the makeshift camp and sent the vast majority back to Haiti aboard deportation flights.

Source: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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Boat carrying 300 Haitian migrants capsizes near Florida coast

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A wooden boat carrying hundreds of Haitian migrants capsized in shallow water off the coast of the US state of Florida, officials said, and many needed medical attention. The United States Coast Guard and other agencies rushed on Sunday to help the group of migrants, which included women and children.

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Links to a Bloomberg article. Have to complete a google survey to access

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Biden administration faces growing wave of migrants crossing border into U.S.

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The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally has jumped again in recent weeks, stretching capacity and stirring fears that the Biden administration will face an even...

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U.S. special envoy to Haiti quits, cites 'inhumane' deportations (theday.com)
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U.S. special envoy to Haiti quits, cites ‘inhumane’ deportations

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The resignation Thursday of the U.S. special envoy to Haiti in protest of what he called “inhumane” deportations of Haitian migrants spotlighted a widening crisis for the Biden administra...