MIAMI — Nearly two dozen people are in federal custody as two more groups of Cuban migrants made landfall in the Florida Keys on Monday.
The U.S. Border Patrol detained 21 people overall on Monday afternoon, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Division Chief Adam Hoffner said. They’re the latest in a surge of people trying to escape worsening economic and political conditions in Cuba. Some 50 others have landed in the Keys since Thursday.
The first group of 14 people from Cuba was found in the Marquesas Keys, uninhabited islands about 20 miles west of Key West, Hoffner said. The migrants, who were picked up around 2 p.m., were stranded on the islands after their makeshift vessels ran aground.
