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Decision to Repatriate Cubans Criticized

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:50:00 PM
By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ

Ramon Saul Sanchez, president of the Democracy Movement, center, continues his hunger strike Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, in Miami. Sanchez is protesting the return to Cuba of 15 Cubans who fled their homeland and landed on an abandoned bridge piling in the Florida Keys. Sanchez said he began the hunger strike on Saturday. In the background are Aracelys Hernadez, left, and Mercedes Hernadez, right, both relatives of the returned Cubans. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) MIAMI (AP) - 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.


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