Four Cuban migrants in homemade boat land in Key West
KEY WEST -- Four Cuban migrants traveling on a homemade boat came ashore at a Hilton hotel pier, the U.S. Border Patrol said.
The four men landed at the pier in Key West early Monday, four days after they told authorities they departed from the province of Havana. They came on a homemade wooden boat powered by an American-made tractor engine, officials said.
``They had a long trip and they were all in good health and good spirits,'' said Kerry Heck, a supervisory Border Patrol agent.
The men were processed and transferred to the Krome detention center for release to relatives. Under the United States' wet-foot, dry-foot policy, Cubans who are intercepted at sea are usually returned, while those who reach land are usually allowed to stay.
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