MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Thirty-two Spanish-speaking people were picked up Friday by the Coast Guard from an islet off the Florida coast near Miami where they had been stranded, said a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol.
The people said they had come from Cuba, said spokesman Robert Montemayor.
Video shot from a news helicopter showed the men and women lying on the beach before boarding a small Coast Guard vessel, which transported them to a larger cutter.
Montemayor said that there were 22 men, eight women and two children. There was no sign of a boat, he said.
"There are in good shape," Montemayor said. They were being interviewed by Border Patrol agents to determine how they got on the islet.
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