U.S. Border Patrol officials have taken into custody 41 people from Cuba who arrived on U.S. shores after traversing the Straits of Florida on makeshift rafts and rowboats.
Nine illegal immigrants were taken into custody on July 16 after arriving on Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach County in Florida. They were caught after Border Patrol agents and local law enforcement responded to a “maritime smuggling event that made landfall in Jupiter Island,” Walter N. Slosar, the chief patrol agent of the Miami Sector, said in a July 16 post on Twitter.
