MIAMI — Seven Cuban migrants landed near Matheson Hammock park in Miami-Dade County on Monday night, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.
Details about the landing were still pending Tuesday afternoon, but the Border Patrol said in a statement that they came ashore on a homemade boat.
Matheson Hammock is a county-run park off Old Cutler Road that extends into Biscayne Bay.
The landing is the latest in a marked increase in migrant arrivals in South Florida — mainly from Cuba, but also from Haiti — that started more than a year ago.
Experts on Cuba and Haiti say the trend is due to deteriorating political, economic and health conditions in both nations.
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