Im in debt up to my balls and a convicted felon, say, hypothetically of course, that I went down to mexico and had fingerprint surgery and then took a boat out to the gulf and appeared to be coming from Cuba to florida on a small rubber raft would I be able to recalim a clean record here in the states?

Cuba is 90 miles from the Keys in Florida.
This Cuban guy told me that he waited for a storm one day and the day after when the storm had died down he started swimming to the USA and that is how he got here.

Could this story be possibly true?

He said he waited for the day after the storm because this is when the ocean is the calmest and the risk of getting side tracked by the ocean currents is low. Supposibly the currents going from East to West cause many Cubans coming to the USA to miss the Keys or southern tip of Florida and to end up drifting around in the Gulf of Mexico somewhere!

He said Castro had just given permission for anyone that wanted to to leave the Island and a lot of people had started making their way by boat during the storm. That there were at some points dead people and turned over boats floating around that didn’t make it the night before. And that this is what saved him from the sharks because they were feeding on the other dead people and so left him alone
Are there any swimmers out there that have swum 90 miles or that believe it is possible to swim 90 miles?

This story just sounds so hard to believe.