The Border Patrol and other federal and state agencies took into custody a total of 41 Cuban migrants in several incidents across South Florida — from the Florida Keys to Miami Beach — over the weekend.
On Monday afternoon, 11 people from Cuba were found on shore of Lower Matecumbe Key where they arrived in a homemade sailboat. They told Border Patrol agents that they left Ciego De Avila, Cuba, a week ago, said Adam Hoffner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s division chief of the agency’s Miami operations.
On Saturday, 21 Cubans landed in two homemade vessels in the Marquesas Keys, uninhabited islands about 20 miles west of Keys West. They were taken into custody by U.S. Coast Guard crews and officers with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection press release.
