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From: pedro1940@progression.net

Search ends for 31 missing Cubans


Search ends for 31 missing Cubans
06:49 AEST Thu Aug 25 2005
AAP

The US Coast Guard has given up a search for 31 Cuban migrants missing at
sea for over a week since their overcrowded speedboat capsized between Cuba
and Florida.
Coast Guard aircraft and vessels had searched more than 26,000 sq km of
ocean - an area about the size of Massachusetts - for survivors of the
shipwreck since three people were rescued on Sunday by the crew of a
merchant ship, the Antigua-flagged Melfi Habana.
Badly sunburned and dehydrated but kept afloat by life jackets, they said
they had been in the water since the accident on August 16.
But no other survivors, or bodies were found, the Coast Guard said.
"Trying to illegally enter the United States from the maritime domain is
inherently dangerous and threatens the lives of all involved," said Coast
Guard spokesman Chris O'Neil.
Under immigration accords between the United States and Cuba, Cuban migrants
stopped at sea are generally taken home.
But undocumented Cubans who reach US shores are usually allowed to stay.
Cuba says that policy encourages migrants to attempt the dangerous voyage in
overcrowded or unseaworthy ships.
The US Coast Guard said 200 people had died at sea trying to get to the
United States illegally in the past five years.

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