More than 60 Cubans landed in the Miami area this week after crossing the Straits of Florida aboard smugglers’ boats, the Border Patrol said yesterday.
Forty arrived at a marina in Miami Beach early Tuesday, and 21 came ashore at Key Biscayne, near Miami, late Monday.
The Cubans told agents they paid smugglers between $450 and $500 to board boats near Sagua la Grande on Cuba’s northern coast.
Both groups were scheduled to be processed and released, according to Border Patrol spokesman Joe Mellia.
A 1966 law allows Cubans who reach the United States to apply for American residency, a right denied to immigrants of other nations.