Human Rights Commission: Halt Deportations To Haiti
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is urging the United States to stop deporting Haitians who are seriously ill or who have family members in this country.
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights is urging the United States to stop deporting Haitians who are seriously ill or who have family members in this country.
A Haitian man deported earlier this year back to his homeland has died in jail of cholera-like symptoms.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a brief stop in Haiti over the weekend to discuss that country's electoral crisis.
A group of 19 Cubans seeking America's shore were repatriated by the Coast Guard Monday to Bahia de Cabañas, Cuba.
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier said in a Friday news conference that it was the devastating earthquake that brought him back to Haiti earlier this week.
Jean-Claude Duvalier remains in Haiti but a spokesman says the former Haitian dictator intends to leave when he gets a new passport but he cannot be forced to leave his Caribbean homeland against his will.
Former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has been charged with corruption and embezzlement for reportedly stealing millions of dollars from Haiti's treasury.
A judge will decide whether former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier will be tried on charges that include corruption and embezzlement for allegedly pilfering the treasury before his 1986 ouster, a lawyer for the ex-strongman said Tuesday.
To welcoming chants of "Duvalier!" The 59 year old former dictator slipped out of France and boarded an Air France passenger jet and accomplished what his critics long said was impossible.
Many Haitian-Americans in South Florida are demanding that Jean-Claude Duvalier be tried for decades of alleged human rights abuses.
South Florida's Little Haiti community is calling for justice tonight amidst shock over the news that former Haitian dictator Jean Claude Duvalier has returned to Haiti.
The political group Veye Yo plans to protest Monday in Miami's Little Haiti the return of Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to Haiti.
Jean Claude Duvalier, the deposed former strongman of Haiti who has been living in exile for 2 decades, returned to his homeland without notice Sunday, drawing cheers from supporters and surprise from government officials. The reason for "Baby Doc"'s returning is not clear, but in the past he had offered his services to help resolve Haiti's problems.
Here is a brief chronology of milestones in the life of ex-Haitian dictator Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier:
Seven days after the Florida Parole Commission allows the conditional release of a 27-year-old woman who's dying from cancer, that woman fulfills a final wish before goes home to Indiana.
One year after the earthquake ravaged Haiti, progress is still slow to see.
Lynn University in Boca Raton honors the lives of four students and two professors who died in the earthquake in Haiti with a day of service and remembrance.
It's been a year since a massive 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, killing more than 200 thousand and leaving a million and half homeless.
The tears offer mute testimony for Fritz and Mary and their two young daughters. The family sat down at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami Wednesday.
Big hugs and smiles all around as child from Haiti who were treated at Miami Children's Hospital after a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake were re-united with the doctors and nurses who took care of them.
Wednesday will be a day of remembrance across South Florida as thousands of people will gather at a number of events to mark the one year anniversary of a catastrophic earthquake which shook Port au Prince, Haiti to its knees.
Thousands of Haitians gathered Wednesday morning near the heavily damaged Presidential Palace in Port au Prince for a memorial service on the first anniversary of a massive earthquake that killed more than 230-thousand people.
The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake.
One year after the earthquake in Haiti, some of the youngest refugees are slowly adjusting to life in South Florida.
The family—including the parents and their three daughters, ages 19, 14, and 11—was vacationing in South Florida for the first time, spending a week at the Radisson Resort Miami Beach.
CBS News Miami's investigation into one such home in Lauderhill has found that the owner again appears to be out of compliance with city occupancy rules.
Mayor Bryan Calvo said the site could have up to 30,000 square feet available, and some startup business owners say this could be what they need to open their first in-person location.
Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was arrested by Pompano Beach Police, facing charges of attempting to flee law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence, according to Broward County arrest records.
A man was shot near Mary Saunders Park in West Park before driving to Hollywood, where he was located by first responders.
The family—including the parents and their three daughters, ages 19, 14, and 11—was vacationing in South Florida for the first time, spending a week at the Radisson Resort Miami Beach.
CBS News Miami's investigation into one such home in Lauderhill has found that the owner again appears to be out of compliance with city occupancy rules.
Mayor Bryan Calvo said the site could have up to 30,000 square feet available, and some startup business owners say this could be what they need to open their first in-person location.
Black, whose real name is Bill Kapri, was arrested by Pompano Beach Police, facing charges of attempting to flee law enforcement and resisting an officer without violence, according to Broward County arrest records.
A man was shot near Mary Saunders Park in West Park before driving to Hollywood, where he was located by first responders.
In courtroom testimony, Shandelle Maycock recounted the harrowing night her daughter was abandoned in the Everglades, describing the horrors they endured.
A former prison guard trainee has been sentenced to death for the 2019 execution-style killings of five women inside a Florida bank.
Florida coach Billy Napier is getting a fourth season to try to get the Gators back to their winning ways.
A Florida man has filed a federal lawsuit against Jacksonville sheriff's officers who severely beat him last year after he ran from a traffic stop.
The Marion County Sheriff's deputy told authorities that he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend while cleaning his gun.
The potential indictment — which must be approved by a grand jury — is expected to focus on Cuba's 1996 downing of two planes operated by a humanitarian group.
The launch is being backed by the American Mexican Leadership Council, a new national organization also debuting Thursday to elevate Mexican American leadership and advance U.S.-Mexico collaboration.
The Senate unanimously agreed to adopt a resolution on Thursday that will withhold senators' pay during a lapse in funding for any federal agency.
A ship was taken by unknown parties toward Iranian waters after an Indian-flagged vessel was attacked off Oman.
Several states have required their health agencies to take on another job: verifying immigration status among Medicaid recipients and reporting them to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
CBS News Miami has confirmed from multiple sources that the Miami Dade State Attorney's office is investigating A3.
State Senator Rosalind Osgood is urging Wasserman Schultz not to run in Florida's 22nd Congressional district.
Several commissioners have raised questions about how the center would be funded in future years.
In an interview on Facing South Florida, Wasserman Schultz said the Governor's efforts to redraw the maps will almost certainly violate the Fair Districts constitutional amendment voters in Florida passed in 2010.
The center – which was promised to voters back in 2004 – would take mentally ill individuals out of the jail and move them into a place where they can receive comprehensive treatment and support.
A New York native is among 16 American passengers who are quarantining in Nebraska after being on the cruise ship that is at the center of the deadly hantavirus outbreak.
The head of the World Health Organization says "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly outbreak of the illness.
An American on the repatriation flight began showing symptoms of hantavirus and another "tested mildly PCR positive for the Andes virus," the Department of Health and Human Services says.
More than 100 people from a cruise ship dealing with an outbreak of the rare and deadly hantavirus are set to be disembarked.
In 2002, Zermeño found out he contracted hantavirus after cleaning the family house following the death of his mother and sister. He had been exposed to rodent droppings and became infected.
AARP is sounding the alarm because it is so easy to fall for these schemes, but there are simple things everyone can do to protect themselves.
A lawsuit filed late last month took Chicago-based McDonald's to task over the McRib sandwich, calling its name a form of false advertising.
Florida insurance policyholders could be seeing some form of relief in their wallets thanks to market reforms made statewide, Gov. Ron DeSantis said.
The company said Tuesday that 85% of its retail products and "nearly all" of its school offerings are already made without "certified colors."
Less than two days after Delta Air Lines offered $30,000 to each passenger on board the flight that crashed and flipped in Toronto on Monday afternoon, the company is facing its first two lawsuits in the incident — and they likely won't be the last.
The Library of Congress revealed this year's list of 25 recordings to be preserved for future generations on the National Recording Registry.
"The Devil Wears Prada 2" edges out "Mortal Kombat II" at the North American box office this weekend.
A trial in the lawsuit between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was set to begin later in May.
The performance followed similar shows by Madonna in 2024 and Lady Gaga last year on one of the world's most iconic waterfronts.
Attending this year's Kentucky Derby meant more for thoroughbred expert Mark Toothaker, who suffered a seizure from laughing at a whiffed NFL field goal attempt that led to a lifesaving diagnosis.