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Cubans respond with zeal to new US migration policy

Overwhelmed by thousands of Cubans crowding its southern border after making the dangerous trip through Central America and an increase in makeshift boats crossing the Florida Straits, the United States in early January approved a policy change that makes migrants request a permit online before arriving with the sponsorship of…

The Independent UK

‘We are seeing migrant landings almost everyday.’ What’s behind surge in South Florida?

Desperate to leave Cuba and start over in the United States, people are making the perilous journey in greater numbers across the Florida Straits. South Florida authorities say the steady stream of arrivals has put stress on local law enforcement and rescuers, who are often dispatched when migrant boaters are…

Miami Herald

If not the US, then who? Biden team says talk of US troop deployment to Haiti ‘premature’

WASHINGTON — Ever since the assassination of Haiti’s president last summer, the Biden administration has been planning for the possibility of the country’s potential collapse. The Department of Homeland Security has quietly readied for an unprecedented flow of refugees across the Florida Straits. And the Pentagon has gamed out what…

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US Coast Guard searches for 23 migrants missing near Florida Keys amid Hurricane Ian

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard launched a search Wednesday for 23 people who, among a group of Cuban migrants, attempted to cross the Florida Straits as Hurricane Ian made its way past the Florida Keys.

Miami Herald

Cuban migrants tried to reach Florida using a pedal boat. They’re being sent back

MIAMI — The creativity that goes into making many of the migrant boats that take Cubans on their dangerous journey across the Florida Straits reflects the desperation they feel to leave their homeland for a better life.

Miami Herald

As sea crossings by Haitian and Cuban migrants increase, so do US Coast Guard patrols

The white speck appears on the radar screen, bobbing in the surf far below as the waves crash into one another in the deep blue waters of the Florida Straits. A U.S. Coast Guard aviation electronics technician, manning the screen, leans forward for a closer look while cameras from the…

Miami Herald

Fabiola Santiago: Want to end new Cuban mass migration? Clamor for Cuba’s freedom like you do for Ukraine’s

A new generation of Cubans is dying in the Florida Straits in a bid to flee a brutally repressive regime — and poverty, too. They’re bedfellows.

Miami Herald

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‘It’s Russian roulette’: migrants describe nightmarish route across Florida Straits

Despite the dangers, migrants use the islands as a springboard into the US – sometimes with devastating consequences

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