Hearing in lawsuit for Cubans who climbed Keys lighthouse

Hearing in lawsuit for Cubans who climbed Keys lighthouse

A hearing is set in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of Cuban
migrants seeking to remain in the U.S. after they climbed onto a
lighthouse several miles off the Florida Keys.

MIAMI
A hearing is set in a lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of Cuban
migrants seeking to remain in the U.S. after they climbed onto a
lighthouse several miles off the Florida Keys.

An attorney for the migrants says he's hopeful a Miami federal judge
will order at Friday afternoon's hearing that the Cubans remain under
U.S. control until the matter is settled. The 21 migrants are on a Coast
Guard cutter.

Under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, Cubans who reach U.S. shores are
usually allowed to stay, while those intercepted at sea are generally
returned to the communist island.

The lawsuit claims the 136-year-old American Shoal lighthouse on a reef
off Sugarloaf Key should qualify as U.S. territory so the migrants can
stay. U.S. officials disagree.

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