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What the 1980 Mariel boatlift can teach us about today’s immigration problems | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThis month, 44 years ago, President Jimmy Carter officially established the Cuban-Haitian Entrant...
Tales of the Mariel Boatlift, when thousands of Cubans landed in the United States
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 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 ...
Florida Is Shunning the People Who Helped Build It
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPhoto: The Mariel refugees pictured on an Air Force base in Florida; Tim Chapman/Miami Herald/Getty In 1980, Florida experienced an immigration...
When Cuba’s baseball team takes the field, will politics or patriotism rule? | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Bárbaro Garbey and René Arocha began the exodus of Cuban baseball players to the United States...
What President Jimmy Carter did when he visited Miami and the Keys. See how it looked
Miami Herald via AOL· 1 year agoPresident Jimmy Carter visited Miami in June 1980. It wasn’t an easy time in South Florida. The...
5 things to know about Lubby Navarro, the arrested ex-Miami-Dade School Board member
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoWho is Lubby Navarro, the former Miami-Dade School Board vice chair who was arrested Thursday...
Cubans said yes to same-sex marriage, but referendum results sent a message to the government
Miami Herald via AOL· 2 years agoSix decades after Fidel Castro imprisoned gay men in forced labor camps and later sent them to...
Cubans, Haitians are fleeing to US in historic numbers. These crises are fueling migration.
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSome float across miles of open ocean on chunks of Styrofoam fastened together with bamboo twine....
Review: Scarface Shows How Prohibition Leads to Violence
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPhoto: Scarface/Everett Collection In 1983, Scarface updated the Al Capone gangster story for the...
Record-breaking numbers of Cuban migrants entered the U.S. in 2022-23
Politico via Yahoo News· 8 months agoA record-breaking number of Cubans have arrived in the U.S. over the last two years, according to...