cuban migrants

A new report by the libertarian Cato Institute shows Trump administration arrests of Cuban migrants has skyrocketed since last year — while approval of their green card requests under the Cuban Adjustment Act has dropped 100%.

At least 46 people under ICE custody have died since the start of President Donald Trump’s administration in January 2025, according to a count by The Associated Press. ICE officials have reported 18 deaths since the start of the fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 2025.

Miami's Freedom Tower stood as a beacon of hope for Cubans fleeing communist rule at the height of the Cold War. It will reopen next month as a museum honoring the history of Cuban exiles with immersive state-of-the-art exhibits that explore the meaning of migration, freedom and homeland.

In a country where construction materials are expensive and hard to find, Cubans are using Facebook to find building supplies for U.S.-bound homemade boats.

Over the weekend, 300 migrants arrived at the sparsely populated Dry Tortugas National Park. The park was closed so that law enforcement and medical personnel could evaluate the migrants before moving them to Key West.

U.S.-Cuba relations were re-frozen five years ago — but the U.S.'s border crisis and Cuba's economic desperation may make cooperation necessary again.

Cuban migrants are pushing back against U.S. curtailment of their legal-entry parole — and may embolden other groups to seek their own privileges.

COMMENTARY As record numbers of Cubans come across the U.S. border alongside "illegals," it's perhaps getting harder for Cubans in Miami to set them apart.

Democrats say Florida's GOP Lt. Governor Jeanette Nuñez — a Cuban-American — indicated Gov. DeSantis will bus undocumented Cuban migrants out of the state.

U.S. immigration officials say 25 Cuban migrants landed in South Florida on Tuesday, the latest arrival which is part of a mass migration from the island to escape political and economic troubles.

After four years, Nikolas Cruz’s sentencing trial begins, more Cubans have been entering the U.S. through its southern border, and the Bayview 60 apartment complex in North Miami Beach was evacuated after an inspection.

Between October and the end of February, tens of thousands of Cubans arrived at the Mexico-U.S. border, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics.