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Cuban boat people mainly refers to refugees who flee Cuba by boat and ship to the United States. [1] [2] There have been four distinct waves of immigration, both legal and illegal, from Cuba to the United States. These four waves include early boat arrivals, the marielitos, the balseros, and the post “Wet foot, dry foot” arrivals. These ...
On April 21, the first boat from the harbor docked in Key West and held 48 refugees. By April 25 as many as 300 boats were picking up refugees in Mariel Harbor. Cuban officials also packed refugees into Cuban fishing vessels. [30] Around 1,700 boats brought thousands of Cubans from Mariel to Florida between the months of April and October in ...
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Balseros spotted and rescued by the Carnival Liberty in 2014. Balseros ("rafters", from the Spanish balsa "raft") were boat people who emigrated without formal documentation in self constructed or precarious vessels from Cuba to neighboring states including The Bahamas, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and, most commonly, the United States since the 1994 Balsero crisis and during the wet feet, dry ...
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Passersby leave their cars to take pictures of a small Cuban sailboat abandoned on U.S. 1 just north of Marathon in the Florida Keys. On Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, about 40 men, women and some small ...
October saw over 29,000 (29,878) Cuban migrants arriving, accounting for nearly 11% of all migrant entries for that month. December 2022 saw the peak of the exodus, with a record 44,064 Cuban migrants arriving in the United States, nearly equaling the total Cuban entries in 2012 and significantly surpassing the number of Cuban migrants who ...