This aerial view shows the Miami Dade College Freedom Tower, which became the Cuban Assistance Center in 1962 to assist Cubans fleeing the 1959 communist revolution, on August 30, 2025, in Miami, Florida. Cuba’s longstanding economic crises have led to shortages of food and medicine, daily blackouts and waves of emigration to the United States, especially to southern Florida. Under a 1966 law, the Cuban Adjustment Act, citizens from the Communist-led island can obtain permanent legal reside...