The Lawton M. Chiles Center for Florida History at Florida Southern College will hold a lecture about the 1980 Mariel Boatlift on Thursday. In 1980, there was a mass exodus of Cubans seeking refuge ...

In 1980, two Cuban teenagers jumped the fence at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and went looking for a judge. “They were 16 going on 60 in many ways,” a social worker told Tribune columnist Anne Keegan.

Immigration officials stopped more than 175,000 Cuban migrants who entered the US since October — easily eclipsing the number who arrived during the massive Mariel boatlift of 1980, according to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Almost 40 years after the Mariel Boatlift, top academics don't agree on how this influx of close to 250,000 Cuban immigrants ...

You can find the transcript for this episode here. The 1980 event that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift marked a turning point in U.S. immigration policy. Faced with widespread internal dissent ...

Senior Advisor to the President for Policy Stephen Miller talks to reporters about President Donald Trump's support for creating a 'merit-based immigration system' in the James Brady Press Briefing ...

According to virtually every sociologist except Harvard University’s George Borjas, the Mariel Boatlift in the 1980s did not hurt the wages of the Miamians who were already living here. In fact, some ...

This article originally was published in 2010 during the 30th anniversary of the Mariel boatlift. Fidel Castro’s death at age 90 was announced on Saturday morning. Cesar Odio was at his office at ...

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