{"id":33089,"date":"2013-03-18T08:40:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=33089"},"modified":"2013-03-18T08:40:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T12:40:48","slug":"cuban-migrants-escape-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/cuban-migrants-escape-to-us","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Migrants Escape To US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/03\/cuban-migrants-escape-to-us-33089.html\/migrants-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33090\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33090\" title=\"migrants\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/migrants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/migrants.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/migrants-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Sixteen Cuban migrants, who were apprehended for illegally entering the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) on October 2, 2012, and who were released on a court ordered bail, have absconded and made their way to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The group reportedly left the TCI by speedboat and island-hopped though The Bahamas to make the approximate 650-mile trip to Miami. Among the group was the mother of US baseball professional Yoenis Cespedes.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial US \u201cwet foot, dry foot\u201d rule favours Cubans who, while illegal migrants, actually arrive on US soil and are then classified as political refugees escaping from a communist country. However, if they are intercepted at sea, they are returned to Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party in the TCI, the Progressive National Party (PNP), has a poor record in dealing with illegal migrants. During a former PNP administration, some Haitian detainees died in custody from dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>The mistreatment of Haitian refugees in the TCI became a source of local and regional controversy recently when immigration minister Don-Hue Gardiner called on residents to help track down illegal Haitian migrants and make their lives \u201cunbearable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiner later tried to defuse his statement by claiming he was not referring only to Haitians but to all illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By Caribbean News Now contributor<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen Cuban migrants, originally apprehended for illegally entering the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) last year, and who were released on a court ordered bail, have absconded and made their way to Florida. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1383,234],"class_list":["post-33089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-turks-and-caicos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}