Coast Guard picks up stranded people
22 men, eight women and two kids were on islet near Miami
 |  People lie on the beach before being picked up Friday. |
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 Watch helicopter view of people on islet before they were picked up.
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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.
"They are in good shape," Montemayor said. They were being interviewed by Border Patrol agents to determine how they got on the islet.
If they are Cuban, the people would likely be allowed to stay under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that allows Cubans who reach U.S. soil to stay in this country.
