MIAMI – In an unexpected echo of the refugee crisis from two decades ago, a rising tide of Cubans in rickety, cobbled-together boats is fleeing the island and showing up in the waters off Florida.

A spokesman at the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C., defended the guards' actions. "If they're stealing a boat from Cuba we have the right to stop it," Jose Luis Ponce said.

It was 25 years ago today -May 29, 1980 - that Miguel Leon-Padron, a 19-year-old Cuban refugee, gave a thumbs-up sign as he entered the Fort McCoy Refugee Resettlement Center, one of the first 172 ...

Garcia-Rodriguez immigrated 45 years ago on a ship provided by the U.S. government for Cuban refugees, his stepdaughter, Christian Cooper Riggs, told KADN. She had been pleading on social media for ...

Forty-five years later, this statement still perpetuates a harmful myth that does a great disservice to the overwhelming majority of Mariel refugees. Facts About Cuban Exiles (FACE), a Miami-based ...

On Dec. 22, 2015, Perez and 19 others departed from the coast of Manzanillo, Cuba on a small boat that took them about three months to build. The group's plan was to arrive in Central America ...