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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mariel Boatlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mariel boatlift was a mass exodus of refugees who departed for the United States from Cuba's Mariel Harbor between April 15 and October 31, 1980.
		We are treated to a view of Mariel through the eyes of a young girl torn between her ties to childhood friends and her gradual awareness that she was not cut out for the communist system.
		Ojito's account of the events leading up to the 1980 boatlift are gripping, particularly the chapter in which she describes the famous April 1 incident that triggered it all: A group of desperate Cubans rammed a hijacked bus through the gates of the Peruvian Embassy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mariel-Boatlift (1019 words)

	Mariel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mariel is a town and bay on the north coast of Cuba approximately 40 kilometres west of the city of Havana.
		On the west side of the bay is a former submarine base, now designated as a free trade zone.
		In 1980, some 120,000 Cubans left Mariel and went to the United States in what is known as the Mariel boatlift; they are referred to as "Marielitos".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mariel (119 words)

	Mariel boatlift limbo - Medill - On the Docket
		Mariel boatlift limbo - Medill - On the Docket
		In his visits and correspondence with Mariel Cubans in federal custody today, freelance writer and author Mark Dow says the indefinite detention these immigrants are experiencing in prisons across the United States is not short of psychological torture.
		Dow’s book ends with a chapter on the plight of Mariel Cubans, about 1,000 of whom are in immigration detention today resulting from crimes they committed after arriving in the United States almost a quarter-of-a-century ago as part of the widely-publicized Mariel boatlift.
	docket.medill.northwestern.edu /archives/002047.php (1554 words)

	Mariel Boatlift
		The Mariel Boatlift officially began April 15, 1980 and ended October 31, 1980, with the arrival of over 125,000 Cubans to Southern Florida from Port of Mariel, Cuba.
		The majority of the Mariel Cubans in Bureau custody today are not eligible for repatriation under the agreement and will most likely remain in detention or be released under INS parole authority to the community or to a pre-release treatment facility.
		The Cuban-born filmmaker recounts the strange fate that brought him as a teenage communist to exile in Miami in 1980 during the dramatic Mariel boatlift.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/mariel-boatlift.htm (1079 words)

	Mariel Boatlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The greatest fear among the planning organizations is another mass migration along the lines of the Mariel boatlift in 1980 or the 1994 balsero crisis.
		Bosquete came to the United States in the 1980 Mariel boatlift and could be deported because he never became a legal US resident.
		Bosquete's lawyers said their client came to the US from Cuba in the 1980 Mariel boatlift and was paroled in 1981.
	www.wikiverse.org /mariel-boatlift (238 words)

	Search Results for "Mariel" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mariel (mah-ree-AIL), town, La Habana prov., W Cuba, on sheltered bay, 27 mi/43 km WSW of Havana; 23°00'N 82°46'W. In agr.
		Fidel Castro to pressure a U.S. government fearful of a repeat of the 1980 Mariel boatlift.
		In the mid-1980s, large numbers of Cuban refugees from the Mariel boatlift flooded into the area, seeking its cheap accommodations....
	bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Mariel (268 words)

	Mariel exiles differ on U.S. policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cubans who fled during the Mariel boatlift tend to have more middle-of-the-road views than Cubans who arrived before or after the 1980 exodus on issues such as invading Cuba or traveling to the island, according to a new poll.
		Economically, Mariel refugees have become part of what Bendixen calls the Cuban ''economic miracle.'' They have practically caught up to older exiles in their levels of success and are in almost every respect a model immigrant class, much like the Cuban exiles who arrived in South Florida in the 1960s.
		While Mariel exiles are less likely to go to church every week than Cuban immigrants who came before and after them, they are still likely to attend church at least a few times a year.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /mariel/differ.htm (1064 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Mariel refugees' long voyage to success
		Observers say the stigma brought on by the boatlift prompted the exile leadership to seek greater local political and economic influence.
		The boatlift also filled Miami with scores of artists, writers and musicians now eager to practice their craft in the US.
		A generation on, Mariel refugees still embrace their native language and cultural traditions, but have gained acceptance as productive members of the middle class in South Florida, according to a recent poll by the Miami Herald newspaper.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4443985.stm (715 words)

	Intrepid Media: The Empire Of You
		Mariel is a town in Cuba situated on a narrow stretch of water known as the Florida Strait, just across from Miami.
		Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco, another Mariel refugee, was executed in October of 2002 for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl.
		The Mariel Boatlift is the worst example of immigrants entering our country as well as the best.
	www.intrepidmedia.com /column.asp?id=1298 (1551 words)

	Hispanic Magazine.com - April 2005 - Feature - Point of no Return
		The boatlift also contributed to Jimmy Carter’s failure to regain the presidency for four more years and, eventually, changed U.S. immigration policy toward Cubans when, in 1994 and no doubt remembering the lessons learned in Mariel, President Bill Clinton announced that Cubans caught at sea would be returned to their country.
		In the end, though, the story of the boatlift is a story like any other worth retelling: one in which regular people—not presidents or tyrants; diplomats or dissidents—take their lives in their own hands and, in the process, change history.
		The boatlift started in 1977 with a thaw in the always-tense relations between Cuba and the U.S. Fresh in office and full of the optimism that only faith and good intentions can concede, President Carter announced that it was time for Washington and Havana to get along.
	www.hispaniconline.com /magazine/2005/april/Features/immigration.html (1063 words)

	Marielito and proud: Journalist offers perspective on boatlift
		She came to the United States from her native Cuba as a 16-year-old, brought by her parents in the Mariel boatlift of 1980.
		Mariel should have been a public-relations disaster for Castro, Ojito says, with the sight of tens of thousands dropping everything for a dash across the Florida Straits to freedom and opportunity.
		The Mariel boatlift, Ojito says, arose from a series of personal choices by first a few, then dozens, then hundreds, and finally thousands of people, thereby changing the history of Cuba, the United States and, not least of all, South Florida.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2005/040511-boatlift.htm (1336 words)

	Mariel Boatlift: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mariel Boatlift was a mass exodus of mentally ill, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Under international law, a refugee is a person who is outside his/her country of nationality or habitual residence; has a well-founded fear of persecution...
		The eruption of the chaos that resulted in the boatlift occurred because citizens in Cuba were tired of the political problems and the way they were being treated along with poor wages and harsh living conditions.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mariel_boatlift.htm (458 words)

	LA NUEVA CUBA
		T dawn on May 11, 1980, the 20th day of the Mariel boatlift, a boat called America reached Key West, carrying on her three decks more than 700 Cuban refugees, about half of them looking suspiciously subdued and weary.
		But, by 1987, 3,800 Mariel Cubans were serving sentences for crimes committed in the United States, and another 3,800 were in indefinite detention after completing sentences.
		Mirta Ojito, who arrived from Cuba in the Mariel boatlift, is the author of "Finding Mañana: a Memoir of a Cuban Exodus," to be published in April by the Penguin Press.
	www.lanuevacuba.com /nuevacuba/notic-05-01-1611.htm (889 words)

	Society History By Region Caribbean Cuba Mariel Boatlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Mariel Boatlift - Overview of US Coast Guard's role in the 1980 exodus of 125,000 Cubans to the US, and subsequent US immigration issues.
		Mariel Boatlift Recalled - Cuba's oppressed voted with their feet 25 years ago - Personal recollection and commentary on the exodus by a Syracuse University professor.
		The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market - An empirical analysis, focusing on the effects on wages and unemployment rates of less skilled workers, showed little impact from the Cuban immigrants.
	www.iper1.com /iper1-odp/scat/id/Society/History/By_Region/Caribbean/Cuba/Mariel_Boatlift (429 words)

	State: Mariel boatlift figure who challenged detention dies
		MIAMI - One of two Mariel boatlift Cubans whose cases against the U.S. government led to the Supreme Court decision barring the indefinite detention of illegal immigrants died Monday, his attorney said.
		Benitez arrived in the United States in the 1980 "freedom flotilla" that departed from the port of Mariel, Cuba, and brought about 125,000 Cubans to the country over a six-month period.
		The ruling allowed the release of about 1,000 Mariel Cubans who were not eligible for deportation because their native country would not accept them.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/03/29/news_pf/State/Mariel_boatlift_figur.shtml (375 words)

	1980 Boat Lift Mariel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1980 the Mariel boat lift brought approximately 125,000 Cubans to...
		Mariel dictated he would have on his boat.
		A former Cuban political prisoner is suing Cuba for alleged torture before he was expelled in the 1980 Mariel boat lift.
	www.alpenglowco.com /boating-1/1980-boat-lift-mariel.html (469 words)

	25 years after Mariel
		Mariel altered the demographics of South Florida, shifting the balance of politics in Florida — already a slippery "swing state" — farther to the right.
		Other refugees ran afoul of the law, and by 1987 some 2,700 men from the Mariel boatlift were behind bars in the former U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta.
		What he saw and heard from the Cubans of the Mariel boatlift "gave me an opportunity to understand the tyranny that they were living in," Bonvento said.
	www.pulsejournal.com /money/content/shared/news/nation/stories/04/18_MARIEL_BOATLIFT.html (2707 words)

	Boatlift - Cuban Migration: Averting a Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the midst of the Mariel Boatlift, Martinez’s mother had relatives in the United States who were Martinez’s parents met in the heat of the boatlift.
		The salient point about that 1980 Mariel boatlift has to be that it didn't yield a single capable major league ballplayer.
		Ojito and her family were part of the Mariel boatlift out of Cuba.
	gamefaqs-com.recommendlist.com /rl/gamefaqs-com-boatlift.htm (238 words)

	Mariel exiles firmly middle class
		But that's exactly what has happened, according to a poll of Mariel refugees and other Cuban exiles conducted for The Herald as part of its coverage of the 25th anniversary of the Mariel boatlift.
		The Coral Gables-based Bendixen and Associates interviewed 200 Mariel refugees as part of a larger poll of 600 Cuban Americans from Miami-Dade and Broward counties between March 21 and 31.
		Perhaps most shocking about the success of Mariel refugees is that they have attained their middle-class status despite the fact that most of them still barely speak English.
	www.canf.org /2005/1in/noticias-de-Cuba/2005-abr-10-mariel-exiles-firmly.htm (850 words)

	Mariel Boatlift
		To streamline the operation and preserve the safety of immigrants to the United States, the 7th Coast Guard District Commander, RADM Benedict L. Stabile, sent a telegram to the Cuban Border Guard requesting the names of vessels departing Cuba, and passengers aboard.
		All U.S. boats in Mariel and those en route to Cuba were advised to return to the United States without delay.
		The Mariel Boatlift was the quintessential Coast Guard evolution.
	www.uscg.mil /reserve/magazine/mag2000/apr2000/mariel.htm (1823 words)

	WWSB.tv (article details) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The boatlift also unleashed a relatively small but ruthless cadre of criminals into refugee camps and Miami streets, tainting America's image of the "Marielito" for years.
		But experts say the roots of the boatlift were planted in the late 1970s, when Castro agreed to release more than 2,000 political prisoners and allowed exiles to visit family members in Cuba.
		By the end of 1980, only those Mariel Cubans deemed too dangerous to be released remained in custody.
	www.wwsb.com /news/details.asp?id=27606 (1245 words)

	Two decades later, Mariel boat lift refugees still feel effects of riot / LA Times - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		Floods of refugees crossed the Florida Strait in 1980 during the six-month Mariel Boat Lift, when Fidel Castro temporarily lifted restrictions preventing his people from leaving their Caribbean homeland.
		Roca said many of the Cubans, detained for months at the base, wanted to begin their new lives in freedom, but they weren't allowed to leave Ft. Chaffee until they found sponsors willing to take them in.
		Jose Salina, another refugee still in the area, said the refugees were antagonized by the Ku Klux Klan and the angry townspeople who demonstrated against them.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y01/may01/07e10.htm (1155 words)

	Mariel boatlift artists transcending stigma \| IndyStar.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Mariel was the best thing and the most terrible thing that ever happened to me," says the 54-year-old painter, whose first job in exile was as a fried-chicken cook in downtown Miami.
		Likewise, in the poetry of Reinaldo Garcia Ramos, journeys and escapes prevail, and the image of water is at the heart of his digital literary magazine, Decir del agua, a poetic phrase that combines the concept of water and speech.
		That's why three years into their exile, Mariel artists staged their first art exhibit at Tamiami Park, where thousands of the Mariel refugees were processed, and why a group of Mariel writers that same year -- 1983 -- began publishing the literary magazine, Mariel.
	www.indystar.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050430/ENTERTAINMENT/504300334/1005/ENTERTAINMENT (973 words)

	Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / Supreme Court Limits Detention of Immigrants
		More than half of those being detained, including 920 who attempted to enter the United States illegally as part of the Mariel boatlift, have been imprisoned for more than six months while the government seeks to deport them.
		Most of them had been in the country a number of years, committed a crime, served their sentence and then were taken into custody by immigration authorities.
		In the case of Daniel Benitez, who entered the United States illegally during the Mariel boatlift, his application to become a lawful permanent resident was denied after his conviction for a crime.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/01/12/supreme_court_limits_detention_of_immigrants (510 words)

	Cuba News / Miami Herald - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		There is no memorial at the docks in Mariel, nothing to commemorate the extraordinary exodus of 125,000 people to Florida, a surge of humanity that to this anniversary day is known only by the name of the harbor town that was the floodgate.
		Today, the energies of Mariel, a city that prides itself on its allegiance to Fidel, are focused not on the past, but the new free trade zone which offers sorely needed jobs but also fouls the air and daubs everything in beige grit.
		About 8,000 Mariel refugees were counted before the state and federal governments stepped in to assist the arrivals with food, medicine, housing and other basic needs.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y00/apr00/21e9.htm (2511 words)

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		These habeas corpus actions by Cuban nationals who entered the United States in the 1980 Mariel boatlift were consolidated in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
		The agreement limits the number of Mariel Cubans that may be returned to 100 per month, except that, if fewer than 100 aliens are returned in a calendar month, the shortfall may be made up in subsequent months.
		For this reason, it is critical to the successful implementation of the agreement that the United States be able to begin transporting excludable Mariel participants to Cuba as soon as the agreement permits.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1984/sg840055.txt (3879 words)

	Mariel boatlift (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Image:Mariel Refugees.jpgthumbright250pxCuban refugees arriving in crowded boats during the Mariel Boatlift crisis.
		However, most of the refugees were very poor and merely sought a better life for themselves.
		The Mariel boatlift was depicted in the 1983 film ''Scarface''.
	goc.subdomain.de /Mariel_Boat_Lift (262 words)

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