Cubans risking their lives on the high seas to come to America.

Frances Martel reports at Breitbart,

Nearly 100 Cuban refugees reached the United States in the past week, with 51 refugees landing in the Florida Keys on Sunday alone. With the number of Cubans risking their lives on the high seas booming since President Barack Obama “normalized” relations with Cuba in 2014, officials fear a greater increase following the death of Fidel Castro.

...These political problems appear to have been exacerbated by the death of Castro in a year where a human rights NGO dedicated to documenting political arrests predicts the number of such arrests will surpass 10,000. As it stood at the end of November, Cuban police had engaged in 9,484 politically motivated arrests, according to the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation (CCDHRN).

These numbers do not reflect those arrested in December for calling for change following Castro’s death, including yet another arrest of Ladies in White leader Berta Soler, who told reporters after her release that she was “dragged by one handcuff and held by the neck” to the police station. A fellow Ladies in White member, Ivonne Lemus, was “slammed onto the pavement” until she lost consciousness, Soler said.

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