MIAMI, June 29 (UPI) -- A federal judge on Tuesday denied the request by 24 Cubans who climbed on to a lighthouse in the Florida Keys, to stay in the United States.
The judge ruled with the government that American Shoal Lighthouse, about five miles off Sugarloaf Key, technically isn't "dry land." The group, held on a U.S. Coast Guard cutter since last month, will be processed and sent back to Cuba, the Coast Guard said.