Dry Tortugas National Park in the Florida Keys is temporarily closed to the public due to an influx of migrants from Cuba. The park is about 70 miles west of Key West and is only accessibly by boat or seaplane.
The closure, which went into effect on Monday, is expected to last several days"while law enforcement and medical personnel evaluate, provide care for and coordinate transport to Key West for approximately 300 migrants who arrived in the park over the past couple of days," according to a National Park Service press release.
"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," NPS said Monday. "Concession-operated ferry and sea plane services are temporarily suspended" as well, the NPS press release said.According to a tweet from Homeland Security Task Force Southeast region, federal, state and local authorities are"aware of multiple migrant landings this weekend" on Dry Tortugas.
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