While some 26,000 Marielitos had criminal records ... a heavily disputed study by economist George Borjas claiming the Mariel boatlift had depressed wages for less educated workers in South ...

A U.S. Marine helps a child off of a Cuban refugee boat during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Fernando Yovera ... by stating that “many of them were criminals.” Forty-five years later, this ...

The 1980 event that came to be known as the Mariel Boatlift marked a turning point ... passengers will be subject to civil fines and to criminal prosecution,” said Carter.

The Mariel boatlift did have a definite negative effect ... The plight of the Mariel Cubans and the unjust labeling of them as a criminal horde is reminiscent of the anti-immigrant rhetoric ...

Petrash points as reference to the Mariel boatlift, when tens of thousands of poorer Cubans arrived in Miami in 1980 — among them criminals whom then Cuban dictator Fidel Castro spitefully ...

Back in 1980, an overwhelmed Carter administration struggled to cope with the Mariel boatlift, a rapid surge ... than 4% of the Cubans who arrived were criminals. Still, that created an unjustly ...

While some 26,000 Marielitos had criminal records ... a heavily disputed study by economist George Borjas claiming the Mariel boatlift had depressed wages for less educated workers in South ...

In 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter welcomed 125,000 Cuban refugees to the United States as part of the Mariel Boatlift ... that “many of them were criminals.” Forty-five years later ...