Brothers Jaddiel and Genier Águila, ages 16 and 17, came from Cuba in August, crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with their parents and settling into a new world in the working-class city of Hialeah, in Miami-Dade County.
The brothers say they didn’t like how the education system on the communist-run island they left behind is politicized, and they speak with enthusiasm about the new freedom they have here.
“In Cuba you can’t express yourself,” Genier Águila said.
