The Latest Breaking News from Cuba

US to expand humanitarian passage for migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela

DALLAS — The U.S. government will expand humanitarian passage monthly for as many as 30,000 people from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela under a broad measure designed to grapple with historic migration from the Western Hemisphere, senior White House officials announced Thursday.

Tribune News Service · Jan 5, 2023

US will begin expelling Cubans, Haitians and Venezuelans who cross border illegally, White House says

The new programme result in the immediate expulsion of anyone from those nations who crosses the US-Mexico border between ports of entry

The Independent UK · Jan 5, 2023

Facing pressure over border crossings, Biden steps up migrant expulsions

The United States will expand Trump-era restrictions to rapidly expel Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, President Joe Biden said on Thursday in his first major speech on border security.

Reuters · Jan 5, 2023

More than 100 Haitians land in Florida's Key Largo, just a day after Cuban migrants’ arrival

MIAMI — More than 100 Haitians landed Tuesday in a gated community in Key Largo, the latest boatload of refugees from the Caribbean to hit Florida’s shores.

Miami Herald · Jan 3, 2023

Over 500 arrive on small boats in Florida Keys in last few days in 'crisis'

At least 500 migrants have arrived to Florida Keys due to soaring inflation, food shortages and economic turmoil in Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean over the last several days

Daily Mirror · Jan 3, 2023

An influx of 300 migrants forces closure of a national park in the Florida Keys

The U.S. National Park Service estimated that some 300 migrants arrived in the Dry Tortugas National Park over the past couple days. The park is about 100 miles north of Havana, the Cuban capital.

WEKU · Jan 3, 2023

OLD She spied for Cuba for years from inside the US government. Now she’s about to walk free

As the US reeled in the wake of 9/11, the arrest of a top government analyst who’d spent years spying for Cuba went almost unnoticed. Ana Montes leaves prison this month and the author of a new book tells Sheila Flynn just how damaging her betrayals really were, not only…

The Independent UK · Jan 3, 2023

Cuban migrant arrivals overwhelm federal immigration officials in the Florida Keys

So many people from Cuba are arriving in the Florida Keys that days could go by before federal officials are able to pick up migrants on the side of U.S. 1 to be processed, according to local law enforcement.

Miami Herald · Jan 3, 2023

Cuban influx forces U.S. Park Service to close Florida islands

The U.S. National Park Service closed Dry Tortugas National Park off the Florida Keys for several days starting on Monday after 300 immigrants had arrived on the islands in recent days, overwhelming first responders.

Reuters · Jan 3, 2023

Hundreds of migrants in Florida in what sheriff calls crisis

At least 500 migrants have landed in the Florida Keys over the last several days in what the local sheriff’s office describes as a “crisis.”

The Independent UK · Jan 2, 2023