In April of 1980, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared the Port of Mariel open, permitting Cubans to freely depart for the U.S. In the next six months, an estimated 125,000 Cubans arrived in a massive ...

Ann Louise Bardach is the author of "Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana" and directs The Media Project at UC Santa Barbara's Center for Film, TV and New Media. On April 1, 1980, ...

In May of 1980, after my classes at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania had finished for the term, I found myself in the most interesting and challenging summer job. I became a Spanish ...

THEY HAVE LIVED the American Dream, learning the language, settling into careers and erasing the stigma that accompanied their arrival in a new land. Twenty-five years after the Mariel boatlift ...

Hundreds of Cuban refugees who came to the United States in the Mariel boatlift crowd around tables at a makeshift immigration center to apply for permanent resident status, in 1984. Hundreds of Cuban ...

In 1980, Cuban President Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave Cuba was free to do so from the port of Mariel. As a result, nearly 125,000 Cubans jumped on watercrafts and headed to ...

A fishing boat loaded with Cuban refugees heads towards Key West in June of 1980. This week, as President Trump comes out in support of a bill that seeks to halve legal immigration to the United ...

Fifteen Cubans held in an Alabama prison will be the first Mariel refugees returned to the island nation under an immigration pact struck with Cuban President Fidel Castro almost a year ago, the U.S.

Senior Trump administration aide Stephen Miller gave a press briefing on Thursday defending the RAISE Act—a bill introduced by Sens. Cotton (R-AR) and Perdue (R-GA) that would slash the number of ...