Wave of migrants in Florida Keys is a crisis, sheriff saysKEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — At least 500 migrants have arrived in small boats along the Florida Keys over the last several days in what the local sheriff’s office described on Monday as a “crisis.”Economic turmoil, food shortages and soaring inflation in Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean is spurring the most recent wave of migration.The park was closed so that law enforcement and medical personnel could evaluate the group before moving them to Key West, the park tweeted.“This shows a lack of a working plan by the federal government to deal with a mass migration issue that was foreseeable.”US to let MLB stars play for Cuba in World Baseball ClassicCubans search for holiday food amid deepening crisisFamilies seek answers on kin missing since fleeing CubaCuban artists blocked from once-promising NFT trading sitesOfficials at Dry Tortugas National Park said they expected it be closed for several days because of the space and resources needed to attend to the migrants.The national park is at the southern tip of the continental U.S. — and attracts scuba divers and snorkelers for its coral reefs, nesting sea turtles, tropical fish and shipwrecks.U.S. Border Patrol and Coast Guard crews patrolling South Florida and the Keys have been experiencing the largest escalation of migrations by boat in nearly a decade, with hundreds of interceptions in recent months, mostly of people from Cuba and Haiti."