I wonder if foreigners know how easy it is to skip into the USA now and get freebies?

-----

Cuban migrants reach Lauderdale-by-the-Sea in raft

A group of Cuban rafters made it to shore in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea on Monday night.

In a sailboat made out of sheet metal with the name "Barack Obama" painted on the side, four men and two women told bystanders they spent nine days at sea.

The boat came ashore just south of East Commercial Boulevard.

Petty Officer Eric Woodall said the Coast Guard received an initial call of an arriving boat about 7:30 p.m. and ordered the launch of a a 45-foot boat from Coast Guard station in Fort Lauderdale, and a helicopter from the Miami station.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/br...606-story.html