(CNN) The lighthouse that a group of Cuban migrants scaled in an attempt to reach the United States isn't "dry land," a federal judge ruled Tuesday. A group of Cuban migrants made it onto a platform 40 feet above the water at the American Shoal Lighthouse. But they didn't make it to dry land, he said, and it isn't the court's role to reshape immigration policy. The Cuban Adjustment Act, passed in 1966, gives any Cuban who sets foot in the United States permission to enter. "As an abandoned—and dangerous—structure over seven miles from the closest dry land, no one today would live on the Lighthouse.

Source: CNN June 28, 2016 18:31 UTC