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Decision to Repatriate Cubans Criticized
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| Contributor | Bob |
| Last Edited | Bob Jan 10, 2006 12:44pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Tuesday, January 10, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MIAMI - Cuban-American community activists and politicians lambasted the U.S. government's decision to repatriate 15 Cubans picked up from the base of an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys.
An attorney for the families of the migrants said he planned to file a suit Tuesday asking a federal judge to allow the group to return.
The migrants were sent back to Cuba Monday after U.S. officials concluded that the section of the partially collapsed bridge where they landed did not count as dry land under the government's policy because it was no longer connected to any of the Keys.
Under the U.S. government's "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy, Cubans who reach dry land in the United States are usually allowed to remain in this country, while those caught at sea are sent back.
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