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Carlos Gimenez, Rebeca Sosa and David Rivera Shower Favors On Ex-Cocaine Trafficker

On July 13, Alexander I. Perez stood underneath a new street sign christening a portion of SE 10th Avenue in front of his Hialeah warehouse as "Banah Sweet Way." A gaggle of local politicos -- including Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez, his Hialeah counterpart Carlos Hernandez, and County Commissione ... More >>

Urban Explorers Map Out Florida's Weirdest Abandoned Sites

Local Haitian Community Riled By Deportations: 13 from Miami Deported, 1 Dead

Unlike their Cuban neighbors, Haitians are once again subject to deportation -- at least those with criminal records.​They are all but nameless, at least for now. Of the 27 Haitians deported to Port-au-Prince late last month by the Obama administration, only one's name has been publicly released - ... More >>

Horror in Haiti: Kidnappings are big business

Culture of cruelty: Feds bury Border Patrol abuses of immigrants

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

He Can't Come Home Again

Despite a mention by the Supreme Court, David Gerbier is locked out of the United States.

Homeland Security, No!

Janet Napolitano's sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Obama's cabinet.

Heimlich Maneuvering

Thousands of local schoolkids were taught a faulty lifesaving technique thanks to Manny Diaz.

Joyce Kaufman Hates Immigrants!

Well, not exactly. But she sure doesn’t speak well of them.

Out of Africa

Malika Oufkir, who spent decades unfairly imprisoned, just wants her son here. Why won’t our government allow it?

The Terrorist Who Wasn't

Hollywood's Manny Ebaid struggles to rebound after the War on Terror made him collateral damage

Your Safety, Their Punch Line

I once thought working for the Transportation Security Administration was serious business. I didn't have a clue

Screwed If By Sea

Cruise lines throw workers overboard when it comes to providing urgent medical care.

Density Turns on the Radio

WLRN grovels; school board makes vote count

Theo's Guide to Living Dangerously

First thing you do is pick a fight with the police department, then you take on the world with a Website: www.hialeahsucks.com

The Accidental Terrorist

He stumbled into a group of Muslim extremists with plans to attack America. Then he stumbled into Miami. Today Shaheed Mohamed is nowhere to be found.

The Girl with the Tonton Heart

Years after the Haitian diaspora, Papa and Baby Doc's children are still wandering

Rick ... or Red?

Could Rick Sanchez, Miami's most notorious journalistic windbag, actually be an agent of Fidel Castro?

The Sanchez Solution

Ramon Saul Sanchez is an exile leader with charisma, style, and a strong sense of drama

Cash Cargo

Despite recent deaths and a federal crackdown, smugglers continue the dangerous business of transporting Cubans to Miami

A Shock to the System

Ouch! INS prisoners claim they were tortured with electroshock riot shields.

DeFede

A Marked Man

Agents of Deception

A congressional delegation inspected Miami's INS operations and found everything to be running smoothly. No wonder. Investigators later discovered they'd been dealing with...

No Money Down

South Florida fraud investigators find themselves fighting a new form of chicanery: the lease fleece

Havana Does Not Believe in Tears

Prize-winning author Roberto Uria landed in hot water in Cuba. Granted refugee status in the U.S., he must now sink or swim.

Cuba Bound

Key West to Havana is a grand tradition, a boater's delight, and a lively tourist adventure. Bon voyage!

That's the Way the Check Bounces

Thanks to executive order 12922, some Haitian students face the prospect of being kicked out of local colleges for failure to pay tuition

Bold MacDonald

The fight to end homelessness has moved to the boardrooms -- and Donna MacDonald, brash and outspoken, is having trouble finding a way in

Getting to Know the Major

To Panama's incarcerated Maximum Leader, he is a link to the outside world. But who exactly is Rudolfo Castrell?

From Moscow to Miami

When Cuba's top students were sent to the Soviet Union, no one could have guessed they would change from revolutionaries to refugees.

Birth of a Notion

Here's a new idea: Haitian babies born at the Guantanamo Naval Station should be considered U.S. citizens