Word: mariel
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...disaffected keep coming in numbers sufficient to overflow Guantanamo, Clinton will have to look again at the options he has tried mightily to dodge. His major goal so far has been to avoid, at almost all costs, a replay of the Mariel boat lift. That 1980 exodus dumped 125,000 refugees in five months into Florida and from there to other Southern states unready to receive them. The fiasco badly hurt not only President Carter but also Bill Clinton, who believes he was defeated for re-election as Governor of Arkansas in part because Cuban refugees sent to Fort Chaffee...
...weeks ago, when the first signs of a new Cuban exodus began appearing, TIME layout artist Edel Rodriguez decided to review the magazine's 1980 coverage of the Mariel boatlift. He expected some of the images to look familiar. But he was stunned to discover an account by correspondent Richard Woodbury of the voyage of the shrimper Nature Boy from Mariel to Florida. "I said, 'My God!' " Rodriguez recalls. " 'That was my boat...
...Bill Clinton, "Mariel" is shorthand for all that must be avoided this time around: another 125,000 new Florida residents courtesy of Fidel Castro. Rodriguez's associations are more personal. He was eight when soldiers came to his family's door in the town of El Gabriel and told them to clear out. An aunt in Hialeah, accepting Fidel's open invitation, had sent a boat for her relatives. Rodriguez remembers his father, a photographer, ceding their home and possessions to the state. The family then spent a tense, hungry week at a quickly erected processing center. On board Nature...
...Another Mariel in the Making...
...largest Cuban migration since the 1980 Mariel boat lift. With hundreds of refugees arriving in Florida daily, Governor Lawton Chiles called the situation critical and declared a state of emergency. The White House, no longer insisting that the refugee flow was "manageable," abruptly reversed a 28-year-old policy of admitting virtually all Cubans seeking to enter the U.S. and announced that all Cuban refugees will now be detained and processed like other illegal aliens...