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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...