A Coast Guard Response Boat-Medium crew conducts search patterns by water during a search and rescue exercise near Kapalua, Maui, Oct. 24, 2019. (Jim Connor/U.S. Coast Guard)
(Tribune News Service) â Maritime migration from Cuba to South Florida this year was on course to be the busiest it has been in nearly four years. But in recent weeks, it has abruptly stopped â and U.S. officials are uncertain why.
Officials with the Coast Guard and other federal agencies responsible for policing migration confirmed this week that they have not encountered any person from Cuba at sea or on land in the Keys or anywhere else in South Florida in about 10 days. The development follows months where they were stopping several groups almost weekly and sometimes daily.