cuban refugees

Cuba this week is reporting its worst sugarcane harvest in more than a century. It could exacerbate the island's economic crisis — and the flight of migrants to the U.S.

Between October and the end of February, tens of thousands of Cubans arrived at the Mexico-U.S. border, according to the latest U.S. Customs and Border Protection statistics.

The end of the wet-foot, dry-foot policy, which allowed Cuban refugees who made it to U.S. soil to stay in the country, also means the end of another...