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 ...

The Dr. Daniels, loaded with 600 to 700 Cuban refugees, pulls into the docks in Key West during the seven-months of the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Keith Graham Miami Herald File This month, 44 years ...

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 ...

Refugees grow up fast. These teenagers escaped from an Army base that served as a holding camp for Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift, a temporary exodus from the island nation sanctioned ...

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 ...

If you grew up in Florida, you probably have heard of the Mariel boatlift. In 1979, some Cuban dissidents decided to seek asylum at the embassies of South American countries. The situation at the ...

wouldn’t be as “Cubanized” as it is today if it weren’t for the welcoming statement President Carter made at a critical juncture of the Mariel boatlift from Cuba to Key West. Caught off gu ...

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 ...

Born in Havana, Cuba, Diaz-Bonilla immigrated to the U.S. during the Mariel boatlift exodus. She was 6 years old when, alongside her parents, she embarked on the journey from Mariel, Cuba ...

His groundbreaking study on the Mariel boatlift has challenged conventional wisdom and led to a more nuanced understanding of the labor market effects of immigration. Immigration today is one of the ...