Embarrassed, the Cuban government called the refugees escoria: "trash." Castro decided to open the port of El Mariel to anyone who wanted to leave Cuba. Changing Refugee Demographics A flotilla ...

EXCLUSIVE: A congressman who fled Cuba in the 1960s will send DHS a list of people allegedly tied to the communist regime who are circumventing U.S. Cuban refugee laws. Rep. Carlos Gimenez ...

He had been held in an ICE detention facility in Evangeline Parish. Garcia-Rodriguez immigrated 45 years ago on a ship provided by the U.S. government for Cuban refugees, his stepdaughter, Christian ...