Posted on 01/06/2023 7:17:33 PM PST by proust
As Breitbart News reported, nearly 1,400 illegal aliens were apprehended at sea and along the Florida Keys over the New Year’s holiday weekend. More than 360 illegal aliens, specifically, arrived on boats at Dry Tortugas National Park.
The illegal aliens were bused from Dry Tortugas National Park to Key West.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Illegal alien is the term we used for decades before the recent Bush-Obama-Biden Junta took over.
Remember the Cubans holding the ballot counters accountable in Florida?
Throw them overboard.
We live in a country full of criminals run by a democrat party also full of criminals.
Specifically? There are lots of Cubans in Florida.
The Feds oberve LOTS of days-off over the Holidays.
Good planning from Democrats’ perspective...
The first European to see the Dry Tortugas was Juan Ponce de León, who visited on June 21, 1513. Ponce de León caught 160 sea turtles there and subsequently referred to the islands as the "Tortugas" (turtles). They are called Dry owing to the absence of surface fresh water on the island. The name is the second oldest surviving European place-name in the US.
The archipelago includes a high concentration of historically significant shipwrecks dating from the 17th century to the present. In 1742 HMS Tyger wrecked in the Dry Tortugas. The stranded crew lived on Garden Key for 56 days, and fought a battle with a Spanish sloop, before sailing to Jamaica in several boats.
Florida was acquired from Spain by the United States in 1819. The Dry Tortugas were seen as a strategic point for the control of the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. Work on a lighthouse on Garden Key started in 1825. In 1856 work on a new, more powerful lighthouse on Loggerhead Key was started to replace the Garden Key light.
John James Audubon visited the Tortugas in 1832 and so did Louis Agassiz in 1858.
The Dry Tortugas are also rich in maritime history. In 1989 Seahawk Deep Ocean Technology explored a shipwreck believed to be part of the 1622 Spanish treasure fleet. The wreck located in 1,332 ft (406 m) of water, yielded olive jars, copper, gold, silver, glass and other cultural artifacts. On September 6, 1622, the Nuestra Señora de Atocha was driven by a severe hurricane onto a coral reef near the Dry Tortugas, about 35 mi (56 km) west of Key West. Mel Fisher and his company discovered the wreck July 20, 1985. The estimated $450 million cache recovered, known as "The Atocha Motherlode," included 40 tons of gold and silver; there were some 114,000 of the Spanish silver coins known as pieces of eight, gold coins, Colombian emeralds, gold and silver artifacts, and 1,000 silver ingots. In addition to the Atocha, Fisher's company, Salvors Inc., found remains of several nearby shipwrecks, including the Atocha's sister galleon the Santa Margarita, lost in the same year, and the remains of a slave ship known as the Henrietta Marie, lost in 1700.
Dr. Samuel Mudd, famous for being the doctor who treated John Wilkes Booth in the wake of the Lincoln assassination, was imprisoned here for conspiracy with three others until early 1869, when he was pardoned in 1869 after averting a viral outbreak.
- Wikipedia
Regards,
So glad to see someone from Breibart calling these invaders what they are, “illegal aliens,” instead of the lame stream media’s prettyied up term, “migrants.”
I’m reminded of that video of the Russian navy shooting the Somali pirate boat to smithereens.
So was Geronimo locked up at Fort Jefferson, along with Mudd of Lincoln assassination fame.
My correction, not Geronimo, he was imprisoned at Fort Pickens.
the invasion continues
I guess the rule of catching them at sea and sending them home no longer applies.
Mayorkas, I believe, is one stinking, lousey, evil human being..
Cubans will have to be sent home as they tend to vote republican. They’re a strong proud people and hate democrats with a passion. Good folks
bingo
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