HAVANA, Cuba, May 29 (acn) Despite current efforts towards the future normalization of bilateral relations between the United States and Cuba, the US´s dry-wet feet law continues to encourage dangerous and illegal departures of Cuban citizens to the US.
International agencies reported on Thursday that the US Coast Guard rescued 13 Cubans who illegally tried to make it to American coasts onboard a precarious raft, which adds to others intercepted this year by the US coastal service.
The raft was captured late Wednesday just a few kilometers from Key Vizcaine, in Florida, said spokesperson Marilyn Fajardo as cited by AFP.
As US authorities seized the raft, one of the Cubans launched himself in the water in an unsuccessful effort to make it by swimming to the coast and ended up in a local hospital, though US authorities did not give details about the reason for his hospitalization.
The other 12 Cubans were taken to the US Coast Guard cutter as Fajardo said they would surely be repatriated.
So according to the anti-Cuba legislation, those who risk their lives and make it to US coasts are welcomed, but those who are intercepted despite the risk to their lives in a shark-infected sea are not.
US authorities say that the Coast Guard interception operations aim at discouraging the illegal departures from Cuba, but they do not want to admit that if they dropped the dry-wet feet law, these actions would not happen and the US Coast Guard Service would use its time for other important activities.
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