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Border Patrol detains 6 Cuban migrants in Florida Keys after they landed in small city

A makeshift raft rests on the shoe of Key Colony Beach in the Florida Keys Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Six men from Cuba arrived in the Keys on the vessel.
A makeshift raft rests on the shoe of Key Colony Beach in the Florida Keys Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Six men from Cuba arrived in the Keys on the vessel. U.S. Border Patrol

The U.S. Border Patrol detained six men from Cuba after they landed in a makeshift boat in the Florida Keys early Tuesday morning.

The migrants arrived in Key Colony Beach, a small city in the Middle Keys, said Adam Hoffner, Border Patrol spokesman.

According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the group arrived around 3:15 a.m. The men will be sent back to Cuba.

This story was originally published August 3, 2021 at 1:20 PM with the headline "Border Patrol detains 6 Cuban migrants in Florida Keys after they landed in small city."

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David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.