Dry Tortugas National Park announced it would close on Monday after multiple migrant landings over the past couple of days shut down operations at the park.
Aerial view of Dry Tortugas National Park, 70 miles west of Key West, Fla.Dry Tortugas National Park announced it would close on Monday after multiple migrant landings throughout the region over the past couple days shut down operations at the park.
A spokesperson for the U.S. Coast Guard would not confirm if the National Park's estimate of how many migrants arrived is accurate, but said theTask Force is currently rescuing several migrants from uninhabited islands in the park. Dry Tortugas National Park is 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, and is a 100-square-mile park accessible only by boat or seaplane. It's made up of seven small islands."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.
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