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Cuban migrants come ashore in Hollywood, Key Biscayne

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Officials said nine men and one woman came ashore in Hollywood, Saturday afternoon. Fish and Wildlife, Broward Sheriff's Office deputies, the U.S. Coast Guard, Florida Fish and Hollywood Police responded to the scene between John Lloyd State Park and the Dania Beach Pier.

Cellphone video captured the migrants jumping out of their 10-foot wooden rowboat and setting foot on American soil as onlookers cheered them on. Some of them were seen kissing the sand.

Nearly 100 beachgoers witnessed the migrants' arrival. "This is crazy, this is amazing, like, they actually made it all the way to the shore," said witness Courtney Chipman.

A video posted on Instagram showed the group on the water, earlier on Saturday.


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