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National park closes after hundreds of migrants arrive during holiday weekend
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- A national park off the coast of Key West is temporarily closed after 300 migrants from Cuba arrived on the islands.
- Cubans have been fleeing the Communist-governed country this year in great numbers.
- Ferry and seaplane services taking tourists to Dry Tortugas National Park were canceled.
The National Park Service (NPS) closed a park in the Florida Keys on Monday after about 300 migrants arrived there over the weekend.
The temporary shutdown at Dry Tortugas National Park, about 70 miles from Key West, Fla., could stretch through the week as police and emergency responders assist the migrants, park officials said.
“Like elsewhere in the Florida Keys, the park has recently seen an increase in people arriving by boat from Cuba and landing on the islands of Dry Tortugas National Park,” the NPS said in a Monday statement.
“The closure, which is expected to last several days, is necessary for the safety of visitors and staff because of the resources and space needed to attend to the migrants,” the NPS added.
Across the entire Florida Keys, at least 500 migrants arrived over the holiday weekend. The recent wave of migration is being spurred by economic turmoil in Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean.
Among that total, the NPS said roughly 300 migrants arrived by boat and landed on islands located within Dry Tortugas National Park.
Park officials are providing food, water and medical attention to the migrants until authorities with the Department of Homeland Security take over their cases.
In Monroe County, which encompasses Key West, Sheriff Rick Ramsay said the U.S. Border Patrol would not respond with resources for some migrant landings until Tuesday, which he said was aggravating a “mass migration crisis” on the islands.
“This shows a lack of a working plan by the federal government to deal with a mass migration issue that was foreseeable,” Ramsay said in a Facebook statement.
The latest wave of migrant boat landings in the Florida Keys is one of the largest encounters the U.S. Border Patrol and the Coast Guard have faced in the region in almost a decade.
Source: Reuters
r w
January 6, 2023 at 6:38 pm
Any person crossing our boarders illegally should be considered a terrorist and shot on the spot as an invader!
r w
January 6, 2023 at 6:39 pm
*border
BT
January 6, 2023 at 7:54 pm
Bt , I feel the same way, this is an invasion Of America
Virginia Williams
January 6, 2023 at 10:37 pm
Then all of us should be shot by the Native Americans.
jose jimenez
January 7, 2023 at 3:06 am
Why? The so-called American Indian is an immigrant also.
Michael Goodson
January 7, 2023 at 7:43 am
My family worked with natives when they settled here. The the natives turned thier backs on my family an scalped them and took everything they had. Without the influence of European technology. America would not be here and just be called third world.
jose jimenez
January 7, 2023 at 12:24 pm
“America would not be here and just be called third world.”
Well, we didn’t get it done the first time around but, by golly, we’ll get her done this time.
Dave
January 7, 2023 at 9:42 am
I agree totally !!!!!
max
January 6, 2023 at 6:49 pm
See how happy people are with socialism. here they come to what they think is the USa however it is now the USSA so they will not improve their lot for long. Communism is so wonderful. the world wide seems to hate but stupid Americans are embracing it in the lie form called socialism. all the same . Folks this is what socialism is. enjoy. you current leaders intend not to make you happy after you wake up. or is it woke up.
Linda Kelley
January 6, 2023 at 7:52 pm
I totally agree!!
Danny
January 6, 2023 at 6:51 pm
The Biden ministration does not care anything about the border doesn’t care how many thousands of corrupt terrorist come across they don’t care about how many thousands of drug dealers are bringing fentanyl across they don’t care about how many characters are gonna come across and kill their children they’re sitting in corrupt garbage, and Joe Biden belongs in prison, impeach and remove this disgrace to America now
Dave.
January 6, 2023 at 7:31 pm
Of course he cares about all those things – a lot more than you care about the truth and the US.
Linda
January 6, 2023 at 8:02 pm
Dave, sorry that you have your head in the sand.. Fentanyl and Communism is on the way in. Biden and his buddies ideal is kill everyone with Fentanyl and make the rest Slaves. If you are submissive to what Biden wants you to do then he might toss you a bone. Forget your money, because he already has it. Its nice that we paid this man with our tax dollars for forty years to take care of this country and he is now destroying it and wants more money and perks Sad!!
Sheryl
January 7, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Truth! 100% True.
Ray
January 6, 2023 at 8:28 pm
Lol,NO ,OLD MAN B “DOES NOT GIVE ONE SHIT FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!HE GOT HIS “MILLIONS “N. HE ,NOR HIS “W H”DUMBFOOLS”GIVE A DAM ABOUT THE “U S A” PEOPLE “!
Don Smith
January 6, 2023 at 9:53 pm
SO RIGHT YOU ARE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mike Hanlon
January 7, 2023 at 7:23 am
Dave
What do you mean by “of course he cares” Are you not aware that his IQ is so low he usually doesn’t know what country he’s in. What a disaster this man is.
Mike
Tha Count
January 6, 2023 at 8:56 pm
Can you explain me how come the people of this country had a chanse in the midterm election to sweep all these comunist from power and replace them with those who care more abouts this country but instead they put them in power again. Can you explain that?
Mike Tracy
January 6, 2023 at 10:10 pm
More election fraud, that’s how! The fkg democrats aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. Mail in ballots and ballot drop boxes have got to be eliminated, and when they are, the Democrats will lose control.
JeAn Duras
January 6, 2023 at 6:51 pm
Well that only happens is we Americans go to where they live !!!!!’
don smith
January 6, 2023 at 9:56 pm
YES
CPO Bill
January 6, 2023 at 7:32 pm
Put em back in the boats and tow em to N Y, MN. RI and Delaware!
Ray
January 6, 2023 at 8:31 pm
YES,!DO THAT,SHIP THEM BACK,OR TO N Y”Or To “Washington D C!
Linda
January 6, 2023 at 8:03 pm
Good Ideal!!
Bob
January 6, 2023 at 10:13 pm
How about we demand bidens tax returns to see the 500,000 cover up he did when under Obama. He avoided taxes by a quick underhanded bs move. Yet he wants more or all of our money.no way
Rich
January 6, 2023 at 10:31 pm
Let them all come in and then we can go there and start over. I’m getting tired of winter anyway.
Sean Rickman
January 7, 2023 at 10:21 am
They may be migrants,or refuges to some,but they are still here illegally and they are alien to the UNITED STATES OF BIDEN,so that does make them illegal aliens and they should be sent back to their country of origin before they destroy”joey mumbles”AMERICA,or whats left of her.