Posted on Mon, Jun. 02, 2008
By TIM CHAPMAN
tchapman@MiamiHerald.com
As the sun rose on Hobie Beach along Rickenbacker Causeway Monday
morning, seven migrants arrived on a boat from Cuba. Six scattered, but
the seventh, Yenisel Alonso, asked someone to call police and then
waited patiently for an officer to arrive.
She was dressed in a white T-shirt, knee-length stretch pants and shoes.
She said she left behind a 5-year-old son in Camaguey, her home in Cuba.
As she waited, homeless men looked through garbage cans for anything
left over from the weekend and joggers breezed by.
The police officer showed up and gave her a flannel shirt and had her
sit in the back of the patrol car until the U.S. Border Patrol arrived.
The 32-year-old woman said she has a godfather who lives in Miami.
Under the government's wet foot/dry foot policy, Cuban migrants who
arrive on U.S. soil are generally allowed to stay while those
interdicted at sea are generally sent back.
Police officers drove across the Rickenbacker Causeway looking for
others from the same boat.
At 7:30 a.m., a Border Patrol van picked up Alonso. There was still no
sign of the six wanderers.
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