Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Castro Valley, Calif...
After braving the 110-mile boat journey from Mariel in Castro's Cuba, the refugees arrived at Key West, Fla., with visions of freedom and a better life. But they were herded onto planes and flown to one of four refugee camps, where they began the dreary game of waiting as center officials slowly processed them. Of the 7,500 refugees now living at Eglin, 5,000 have been there since the center opened on May 3. Arkansas' Fort Chaffee remains filled with 18,800, Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., holds 15,000, and the just opened Camp...
America may be the land of the free and the home of the brave, but there is a limit to how far our freedom and fortitude will stretch. With the massive influx of the "lumpen" of Castro's despotic regime, our already ailing economy will have to absorb the shock of thousands of new members of the work force. It is time to close the doors and remedy our own economic and domestic ills...
Washington repeated its offer to send U.S. ships and airplanes to Cuba to pick up refugees if Castro agreed to let U.S. officials screen the would-be exiles. Havana rejected the proposal-but not outright. In a front-page editorial in the official newspaper Granma, Cuba expressed its willingness to discuss the "isolated" problem of the refugees if Washington agreed to talk about other issues such as the U.S. economic blockade and the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo. The relatively mild language led Washington to believe that although Castro is not in any real trouble, he may have begun...
...illegal immigrants persists, merely inconvenienced by the understaffed Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol. And the U.S. has often made massive exceptions to the law in order to admit refugees-36,000 from Hungary after the 1956 uprising, for example, and 872,000 from Cuba since the Castro revolution. Future upheavals will undoubtedly produce massive new exceptions. A new law, the Refugee Act of 1980, attempts to bring some order to immigration, but it is not much help in resolving the questions of fairness, humanity, precedent and priority that the new mass Cuban migration raises...