Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end more than 2,000 refugees had been brought to U.S. shores. Fidel Castro had unleashed the exodus by opening Mariel to foreign boats and issuing exit visas to those who wanted to leave. The impromptu rescue operation angered and embarrassed the Carter Administration, which held that the sealift was illegal and that the refugees were, at least technically, illegal aliens. To stem the tide, the U.S. Department of State warned that the skippers of the refugee boats could be liable for a $1,000 fine for each exile carried; moreover, their vessels could be seized...
...Though there seemed little doubt last week that the Cuban boat people would eventually be granted permanent residence, Washington was clearly unhappy with their method of arrival. "What you have here is not a rational process," said State Department Spokesman Thomas Reston of the sealift. "What you have is Castro's solution to the problem...
...visit to the embassy, President Fidel Castro told the asylum seekers that they would all be given visas to leave if other countries would accept them. He also assured them that they could move freely out of the embassy, but many refused to budge, fearful that they would not be readmitted or would be beaten up by the pro-regime bullyboys who waited just outside. Meanwhile, Peruvian officials, pleading that they could not possibly accommodate all the refugees, called an emergency meeting of the Andean pact nations. At week's end all five members -Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia...
Associate Justice Charles Grabau was described by Ms. Russell as "white," while certain defendants were described either as "Chicano" or "Hispanic." Justice Grabau grew up in Cuba, only leaving when his family fled Castro's regime...
Along with the unfounded facts, there are the unfounded accusations. In Florida, for example, when an anti-Castro Cuban journalist asked him what he would do about federal harassment of Cuban refugees, Reagan denounced it. When other reporters later asked him for any evidence of such harassment, he could not provide any, though he kept insisting that it occurred. In Kansas, similarly, Reagan declared: "I have been told that some of the Iranians coming to this country are here to create disturbances and to form terrorist groups, and immigration officials know this because of some of the things they found...