{"id":30345,"date":"2023-03-25T21:31:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T21:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=30345"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:50","slug":"cuban-migrants-fly-motorised-hanger-into-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/03\/25\/cuban-migrants-fly-motorised-hanger-into-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban migrants fly motorised hanger into Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two Cuban migrants used a motorized hang glider to fly the approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the communist island to Key West on Saturday, Florida officials said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the duo landed safely at Key West International Airport at about 10:30 a.m. and were turned over to the U.S. Border Patrol.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Border Patrol officials in South Florida did not answer a phone call Saturday seeking comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Overwhelmed by Cubans and other migrants<\/strong>&nbsp;arriving at the Mexican border and into Florida by boat, the Biden administration in early January implemented a policy change that makes them request a permit, or parole, online before arriving with the sponsorship of a relative or acquaintance in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who arrive without doing that risk deportation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Cuban migrants used a motorized hang glider to fly the approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) from the communist island to Key West on Saturday, Florida officials said.&nbsp; The Monroe County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the duo landed safely at Key West International Airport at about 10:30 a.m. and were turned over to the U.S. Border [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[5754,5178,9204,8307,9773,2255,5321,9774,10954,8086,3797,7343,6332,10860,7039,5807,9262,594],"class_list":["post-30345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-airport","tag-biden","tag-border","tag-communist","tag-cuban","tag-deportation","tag-florida","tag-hanger","tag-international","tag-key-west","tag-mexican","tag-migrants","tag-online","tag-parole","tag-phone","tag-risk","tag-united-states","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52218,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345\/revisions\/52218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}