UNITED STATES-MIGRATION - US Coast Guard continues to repatriate Cuban migrants

MIAMI, CMC – Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Kodiak Island have repatriated 23 Cuban migrants to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba, in the latest repatriation efforts. In a release on Friday, the US Coast Guard said the repatriation was a result of three migrant interdiction cases. It said Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Key West, Florida, said two weeks ago, they received a report from the Coast Guard Cutter Margaret Norvell of a raft south of Marquesas Key, Florida,the cutter Margaret Norvell boatcrew launched their smallboat and safely embarked two Cuban migrants. The second migrant interdiction occurred on Monday after watchstanders at Coast Guard Seventh District Command Center in Miami received a report from a “Good Samaritan” aboard a motor vessel of a rustic vessel south of Dry Tortugas, Florida.