Dry Tortugas National Park announced it would close after multiple migrant landings throughout the region over the past couple days shut down operations at the park.
Task Force is currently rescuing several migrants from uninhabited islands in the park.
The historic Parade Grounds at Fort Jefferson at Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West, Fla."Homeland Security Task Force - Southeast is aware of multiple migrant landings this weekend on Dry Tortugas National Park and the Marquesas. The U.S. Coast Guard and partner federal, state and local components in HSTF-SE are coordinating efforts to recover the individuals currently stranded on the remote, uninhabited islands," Rear Adm. Brendan C.
Terreplain near the lighthouse at Fort Jefferson on Garden Key at Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West, Fla.The closure "is expected to last several days," a statement released by the park 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. Park first responders provide food, water and basic medical attention until the Department of Homeland Security arrives and takes the lead," the statement said.The migrants are being given food and first aid and will be first transferred to federal law enforcement agents in the Keys. Rear Adm. McPherson said.
"From there, they will be transported for processing by regional U.S. Border Patrol stations to determine their legal status to remain in the United States or be processed for removal and repatriation to their country of origin. Irregular, illegal maritime migration is always dangerous and very often deadly. Do not take to the seas," he said.
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