What happens to people who die at sea trying to migrate? It falls to the Florida Keys

MIAMI — When people from Haiti and Cuba take to the sea in desperation to reach U.S. shores, they often end up in the Florida Keys, arriving on overloaded or homemade vessels. Some end up in immigration custody, with their futures up in the air as they’re processed. Others need medical care for exposure or dehydration. And some don’t make it, drowning toward the end of their perilous journey across the sea, so close to their promised land. Since the new wave of migrants started nearly two years ago, the Florida Keys have felt the stresses of it all. Paramedics, hospitals, cops — the first resp...