More migrants arrive from Cuba

MIAMI, June 4 (UPI) -- For the second time in a week, a group fleeing Cuba has landed in South Florida, officials said.

Eight migrants arrived at Virginia Key Wednesday morning in a boat they said they built themselves, The Miami Herald reported.

The Cubans said they spent five days at sea before reaching the United States.

They told the newspaper they ditched their boat in the mangroves near the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's weather station.

Under U.S. policy, Cuban migrants who make it to U.S. soil are generally allowed to stay. Those interdicted at sea are usually turned back to Cuba.

The Cubans said the government's recent reforms had done little to improve life in Cuba, the report said.