300 Illegal Imigrants Cause National Park To Close

The Dry Tortugas National Park located in the Florida Keys’ has shut down after over 300 illegal immigrants infiltrated the park.

Park officials have announced that the park could be closed for several days due to a large number of illegal immigrants currently living at the National Park.

In an official statement, the park announced they will close “temporarily close to public access while law enforcement and medical personnel evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key West for approximately 300 migrants who arrived in the park over the past couple of days”.

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The Washington Examiner had these details to add:

The Florida Keys’ Dry Tortugas National Park plans to shut down due to a sudden influx of hundreds of immigrants.

The park estimates that the closure will last for several days. The immigrants, mostly from Cuba, arrived on ships over two days.

The park will “temporarily close to public access while law enforcement and medical personnel evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key West for approximately 300 migrants who arrived in the park over the past couple of days,” a statement from the park read, obtained by ABC News.

“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,” it added.

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— Haley Bianco (@HaleyBianco) January 2, 2023

A local Florida Keys’ sheriff believes the number of illegal immigrants at the park is closer to 500.

Sheriff: 'Crisis' as 500 Migrants Make Landings in Florida Keys https://t.co/cIQlnASUee

— Michael Dorstewitz (@MikeDorstewitz) January 2, 2023

Axios shared these details:

An isolated national park off the coast of Key West is temporarily closed after the arrival of around 300 migrants — largely from Cuba — landed on the cluster of remote islands over the weekend, officials said.

Cubans have been fleeing their homeland this year in the greatest numbers since 1980, as the nation faces its most severe economic crisis in decades, officials crack down on anti-government protests, and people live through daily food and fuel shortages.

The National Park Service said in a statement that it was closing Dry Tortugas National Park to the public Monday morning so law enforcement and medical personnel could “evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key West for approximately 300 migrants who arrived in the park over the past couple of days.”