More than 500 Cuban immigrants have come ashore in the Florida Keys since the weekend, the latest in a large and increasing number who are fleeing the communist island and stretching thin U.S. border agencies both on land and at sea. It is a dangerous 160-kilometer trip in often rickety boats unknown thousands having…
Dry Tortugas National Park, a group of seven islands 110 kilometers west of Key West, remained closed to visitors Wednesday as the US evacuated migrants who came ashore there earlier in the week