INS Center Releases 37 Migrants

Thirty-seven Cuban refugees were released from a detention center Thursday under a new federal policy that benefits children, their parents and some others.

The group released from the Krome detention center consisted of 19 children and 18 adults, said Lemar Wooley, a Miami spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Most of the adults were mothers of the children, Wooley said.

The order cracking down on Cubans arriving in this country by raft was loosened Wednesday, Wooley said, to allow the release of children and the adults responsible for them, as well as people who would qualify on humanitarian grounds.

Officials had already released 19 Cubans from Krome in the last month, including four pregnant women, a paraplegic man and his wife, and a mother and her 2-month-old child.