The Dr. Daniels, loaded with 600 to 700 Cuban refugees, pulls into the docks in Key West during the seven-months of the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Keith Graham Miami Herald File This month, 44 years ago, ...

A U.S. Marine helps a child off of a Cuban refugee boat during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Fernando Yovera AP Photo In 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter welcomed 125,000 Cuban refugees to the United ...

In 1980, two Cuban teenagers jumped the fence at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and went looking for a judge. “They were 16 going on 60 in many ways,” a social worker told Tribune columnist Anne Keegan.

In the spring and summer of 1980, some 125,000 Cuban refugees sailed from the port town of Mariel on fishing boats and pleasure craft toward the U.S., many destined to settle in Miami. Nearly four ...

In 1980, then-President Jimmy Carter welcomed 125,000 Cuban refugees to the United States as part of the Mariel Boatlift. This unprecedented migration accomplished in just a few months embodied the ...