KEY WEST, Fla. - (AP) -- Smugglers brought 71 Cuban migrants to the Florida Keys over a 29-hour period last
                      week, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

                      A group of 18 migrants landed in Marathon near mile marker 47 on Friday. Officials took 10 men, seven women
                      and a child into custody.

                      Later that night, Border Patrol agents took two Cuban men suspected to be the smugglers into custody.

                      A group of 28 migrants were found in Key Largo early Saturday and, hours later, a second group of 25 migrants
                      landed at mile marker 73.5, officials said. Thirty-one men, 16 women and six children were taken into custody
                      from those groups.

                      Cubans who reach American soil generally are allowed to stay while those intercepted at sea are repatriated.

                      The Coast Guard picked up more than 1,900 Cuban migrants last year.