At least 500 migrants landed along the Florida Keys over the last several days, prompting the temporary closure of the isolated Dry Tortugas National Park, officials said.
Crew members aboard Celebrity Beyond rescued 19 migrants from a crowded boat Monday, and crew members aboard Carnival Celebration spotted five people in distress on a small vessel about 29 miles northwest of Cuba. At least 500 migrants landed along the Florida Keys over the last several days, prompting the temporary closure of an isolated national park, officials said.
About 300 migrants had arrived in small boats at the Dry Tortugas National Park — about 70 miles west of Key West — over the New Year's Day weekend. The National Park Service announced Monday that the park was closed to allow law enforcement and medical personnel to evaluate the migrants before transporting them to Key West.Like other parts of the Florida Keys, the park has recently seen an influx of migrants arriving by boat from Cuba, according to the park service.
In a separate migration, more than 160 migrants arrived by boats in other parts of the Florida Keys over the weekend, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office. On Monday, 30 people in two other groups of migrants were found in the Middle Keys. In an attempted landing, crew members aboard two cruise ships rescued about two dozen migrants in small boats on Monday.
Federal agencies, including Homeland Security Task Force — Southeast and the U.S. Coast Guard Southeast, and the Monroe County Sheriff's Office have been managing the"spike" in migrant landings since Saturday, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
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