23 Cubans reach Puerto Rico islets from Dominican coast
PRESS RELEASE
AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico.– Between Sunday and this morning, 23 aliens,
claiming to be Cuban citizens, landed in both Mona Island and Monito
Island after entering illegally into United States territory.
On Sunday Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol Agents were
notified by Park Rangers of the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and
Environmental Resources of an incursion of a group of 9 alleged alien
Cubans that arrived in Mona Island from the Dominican Republic.
Today at noon, the Ramey Border Patrol Station received a call from the
United States Coast Guard reporting an incursion on Monito Island.
USCG Cutter Key Largo stated that 14 subjects, 11 males and 3 females,
had made landfall in the early morning hours, and identified themselves
as Cuban nationals.
USCG Cutter Key Largo transferred the group to the Mayaguez Port where
Border Patrol Agents assumed custody and transported the Ramey Border
Patrol Station to conduct the appropriate immigration interviews.
After admissibility processing at the Border Patrol Station, the 23
Cuban adults will receive a Notice to Appear (NTA) before an Immigration
Judge, for further proceedings under the Cuban Migration Agreement of
1995 and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966.
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