(WSVN) - Federal authorities have sent more than four dozen Cuban migrants back to the island after they were stopped off the coast of Florida.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, crews stopped 55 migrants in four different groups.

Officials said the interdictions happened Saturday and Monday.

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