MIAMI – A group of 15 Cuban migrants made landfall on Wednesday morning in the Florida Keys, according to The United States Border Patrol.
Chief Patrol Agent Walter N. Slosar reported they were in a rustic vessel in Big Pine Key and had departed Cuba from the province of Matanzas.
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