The 1980 event that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift marked a turning point ... Within days, a steady convoy of boats was leaving from South Florida to pick up family and friends from ...

Most of the Mariel refugees opted to live in the Miami area, increasing by 20 percent that city’s Cuban working population. Soon, however, the boatlift spawned political problems for President ...

It was an odd mix of more than 125,000 immigrants who made the trip in 1980.

In the spring and summer of 1980, some 125,000 Cuban refugees sailed from the port town of Mariel on fishing boats and pleasure craft toward the U.S., many destined to settle in Miami. Nearly four ...

By claiming migrants were coming from institutions, Trump made a veiled reference to one of the most intense immigration crises of the 1980s: the Mariel boatlift. And he’s not alone. Narratives ...

Back in 1980, an overwhelmed Carter administration struggled to cope with the Mariel boatlift, a rapid surge of Cubans into South Florida, just as the hapless Biden White House is watching the ...

These teenagers escaped from an Army base that served as a holding camp for Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift ... Hundreds of boats ferried Cubans to Florida. “I am full of hope ...

"Marielitos" remember their journeys on the 30th anniversary of the Mariel Boatlift. This is TALK OF THE NATION. Im Neal Conan in Washington. In April of 1980, two large commercial lobster boats ...

The debate within the field of economics often centers on Nobel-prize winner David Card's ground-breaking paper, "The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market." Today on the show ...

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 ...

By claiming migrants were coming from institutions, Trump made a veiled reference to one of the most intense immigration crises of the 1980s: the Mariel boatlift. And he’s not alone. Narratives ...

Back in 1980, an overwhelmed Carter administration struggled to cope with the Mariel boatlift, a rapid surge ... a mad dash of Cubans from Miami in boats who wanted to pick up their compatriots.