Tim Padgett

Muslims in America faced a convulsion of Islamophobia after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by Islamist terrorists — and young Muslims who watched their community's fear then are seeing the same 'clash of civilizations' bigotry today.

COMMENTARY The rotting effects of Venezuela's long half century of oil corruption made its industry easy prey for Trump — whose real outrage is blocking the re-democratization that could fix that flaw.

After an unconfirmed media report this week that 95-year-old Cuban leader Raúl Castro is on life support in Havana, Miami is abuzz with rumors reminiscent of the decade of bogus news that preceded his brother Fidel's death in 2016. "For younger Cubans and more recently arrived Cuban exiles in Miami, Raúl is their dictator. Raúl is their Fidel," said one observer.

The hundreds of thousands of Haitians who've lost their TPS shield against being deported to a country ruled by murderous gangs are in virtual hiding in cities like North Miami, where mothers "pray my children don't see me taken by ICE when I have to pick them up at school."

Key West immigrant advocates said almost 30 migrants were detained there over the weekend — including the father of a U.S. Navy sailor who's been serving aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Lincoln in support of the Iran war.

Unlike Hispanics elsewhere, Florida's are sticking with President Trump, largely because he and his party bond with right-wing Latin American leaders like Colombia's Abelardo de la Espriella, who takes office on Friday — but brings his own controversial baggage.

COMMENTARY In this season of Odyssey-mania, it's hard to ignore the frustrated Homeric wanderings of Venezuelan democracy leader María Corina Machado — and the pseudo-god who's decreeing them.

Rights organizations, and civic leaders inside Haiti, warn the Trump administration's plans for Haitian TPS deportations risk violating an international law principle that prohibits forcing refugees back to a place where they're likely to be harmed if not killed.

COMMENTARY Did a Mexican tourist run to his death in Florida this month because he feared U.S. immigration enforcement has become — by design — as predatory as law enforcement back in Mexico?

A State Department report claims Cuba remains the prime "launch pad" of leftist, anti-American subversion and "upheavals" inside the U.S. and from abroad. But even Miami's Cuban exiles seem resigned that the charges don't likely mean imminent U.S. military action.