CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Dos mariposas nocturnas casi del tamaño de una mano, de combinaciones café y rosa con cuatro partes traslúcidas que parecen ventanas, copulan colgadas de unos cables junto a los capullos de los que nacieron el jueves sólo unas horas antes.
Democrats, meanwhile, have been trying to turn the immigration crackdown to their advantage. In April, grassroots groups erected two giant billboards on Miami highways calling Rubio and Republican Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart, María Elvira Salazar and Carlos Giménez “traitors” to the Cuban-American community for failing to protect tens of thousands of migrants from Trump’s immigration policies.The arrest of former Cuban state agents is one way to bolster Trump allies, Gamarra said.
President Donald Trump speaks to the reporters on board Air Force One on the way to Miami on April 12, 2025. (Pool via AP, File)President Donald Trump speaks to the reporters on board Air Force One on the way to Miami on April 12, 2025. (Pool via AP, File)In March, Giménez sent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a letter with the names of 108 people he said were former Cuban state agents or Communist Party officials living unlawfully in the U.S.
“It is imperative that the Department of Homeland Security enforce existing U.S. laws to identify, deport and repatriate these individuals who pose a direct threat to our national security, the integrity of our immigration system and the safety of Cuban exiles and American citizens alike,” Giménez wrote, adding that the U.S. remains a “beacon of hope and freedom for those escaping tyranny.”Giménez’s target list was compiled by Luis Dominguez, who left Cuba in 1971 and has made it his mission to topple Cuba’s government. In 2009, when the internet was still a novelty in Cuba, Dominguez said he posed as a 27-year-old female sports journalist from Colombia to lure Castro’s son Antonio into an online romance.
“Some people dream with making money, or with growing old and going on vacation,” said Dominguez, who lives in Connecticut. “I dream with seeing my country free.”
In this undated photo MAGA fans hang out at Café Versailles in Little Havana, Miami, Fla. (AP Photo/Josh Goodman)Lai also said the island would be willing to participate in U.S. efforts to reindustrialize and to lead the world in artificial intelligence.
Rep. Bruce Westerman, chair of the House Natural Resources Committee, told Lai that the U.S. produces a lot of food and fiber and is “always looking for more friends to share that with.”Trade and economic ties between Taiwan and the U.S. have grown closer in recent years. The island faces rising pressure from China, which sees the island as part of Chinese territory and vows to annex it, by force if necessary.
Washington is bound by its own laws to provide Taipei with the means to defend itself, and politicians — both Republicans and Democrats — have come to believe it is in the U.S. interest to deter Beijing from attacking Taiwan.Many policymakers and analysts have argued that arming Taiwan includes not only