US returns 45 Cuban migrants intercepted at sea

MIAMI (AP) — Coast Guard officials say 45 Cuban migrants picked up in the waters off the Florida Keys have been returned to their Caribbean homeland.

A Coast Guard crew intercepted an “aluminum rustic vessel” carrying 25 migrants Saturday in the waters southwest of Key West. In a separate interdiction later Saturday, the crew found another 20 migrants aboard an unseaworthy vessel south of the Dry Tortugas.