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MIAMI — A worrying rise in the number of Haitian refugees arriving by boat off the Florida coast is raising questions about a long-standing immigration practice that determines why some fleeing migrants are processed into the United States and others are quickly returned back to Haiti despite making it into…

US Coast Guard rescues eight people from vessel trying to bring people to the US illegally

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — U.S. Coast Guard crews searched the waters off the lower Florida Keys through Friday night for five people who are missing after their boat capsized with 15 people aboard and will continue searching Saturday.

Decades ago, the pair allegedly told family members they were going into witness protection when they abandoned their Texas home and abruptly disappeared.

US authorities say Walter Glenn Primrose and Gwynn Darle Morrison, who lived for years using the names of two dead infants, should be held without bail on charges of identity theft

Prosecutors say the pair used the names of dead children and other aliases as fake identities and had old photos of themselves in Russian spy agency uniforms.

U.S. authorities say a couple who lived for years in Hawaii while using the names of two dead Texas infants should be held without bail on charges of identity theft and conspiracy against the government

A U.S. defense contractor and his wife who federal authorities say lived for decades under the identities of two dead Texas children have been charged with identity theft and conspiring against the government

MIAMI — The capsizing of a boat near the Bahamas on Sunday that killed at least 17 people — suspected to be Haitian nationals trying to land in Miami — underscores the dangers that migrants on illicit sea voyages face trying to reach American shores.

MIAMI — A boat capsized in Bahamian waters in Sunday’s first hours, killing 17 “suspected irregular Haitian migrants,” Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis said at a Sunday afternoon news conference.

Time was wasting away for would-be cruisers on Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville cruise ship this week, after the coast guard stopped the ship from sailing on schedule. But the order was lifted Friday after safety issues were corrected.