Word: boatlifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misery and political persecution in that embattled Central American country, as many as 200 refugees a day are hitting town. By the end of this year, an estimated 100,000 more Nicaraguans will seek refuge in Miami. The city has not experienced such an overwhelming influx since the Mariel boatlift deposited 125,000 Cuban refugees...
...madman's repeated clashes with authority fit a maddeningly familiar pattern: since arriving in the U.S. from Cuba as part of the Mariel boatlift in 1980, Jorge Delgado had been arrested at least eleven times for petty crimes and hospitalized as a mental patient seven times. Once he had smashed a chalice during a service at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Twice in the past six months, city psychiatrists had examined him and failed to discover any reason not to return him to the streets...
...uprisings were sparked by the Administration's announcement that Cuba's Fidel Castro had agreed to take back 2,545 criminals and mental patients who $ had come to the U.S. among the 125,000 Cubans in the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Some 7,600 Cubans are being held in 100 locations because they committed crimes or were found ineligible for U.S. residence. Those at Oakdale and Atlanta rioted, torching buildings and seizing hostages to show that they would rather stay in jail than go back to Cuba...
...pact applies to all 3800 veterans of the 1980 Mariel boatlift now, held in county, state and federal prisons nationwide, including those who took over the Oakdale center, said Korten...
...camaraderie. Many of the first Cubans who fled from Castro were middle class or even wealthy. Other Hispanics call them "the hads" (los tenia) because so many of their sentences supposedly begin "In Cuba, I had . . ." These Cubans in turn contrast themselves with others who fled in the 1980 boatlift from the port of Mariel, a minority of whom had been inmates of prisons or mental hospitals. The word Marielito, flung by one Cuban American at another, can be a fighting insult...