Coast Guard returns 18 Cubans to their homeland

Posted on Thursday, 05.02.13

Coast Guard returns 18 Cubans to their homeland
The Associated Press

MIAMI -- The U.S. Coast Guard has returned 18 Cuban migrants to their
Caribbean homeland.

Coast Guard officials said Thursday that the migrants were returned
earlier in the week to Bahia de Cabanas, Cuba.

Six of the migrants were picked up in a vessel spotted southwest of Key
West on April 24. Twelve were picked up two days later southwest of
Marquesas Key in a vessel that Coast Guard officials describe as
"rustic." No additional details were immediately available.

The Coast Guard has picked up 494 Cuban migrants since this fiscal year
began Oct. 1. In the last fiscal year, the Coast Guard reported 1,275
Cuban migrant interdictions.

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