Coast Guard returns 23 Cubans to their homeland

Posted on Saturday, 07.27.13

Coast Guard returns 23 Cubans to their homeland
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI -- Coast Guard crews have returned roughly two dozen Cuban
migrants to their island homeland.

Coast Guard officials say 23 migrants were returned Wednesday to Bahia
de Cabanas, Cuba.

The migrants were picked up in two separate interdictions between July
19 and July 22. Officials say Customs and Border Protection patrols
spotted rustic vessels heading north across the Florida Straits. Coast
Guard crews responded to those reports and transferred all the migrants
to a cutter.

The migrants received food, water and basic medical care before they
were repatriated.

According to Coast Guard records, 782 Cubans have been picked up at sea
and returned to their Caribbean home since Oct. 1.

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