Mariel Boat and Cubans

cuba: It's not clear whether Lima-Marin, who was ordered deported while in prison, will be returned there since Cuba would still need to agree with the U.S. government on him being included on a list of people to be deported, according to Brandon Sun. Under a 1984 agreement, Cuba agreed to take back 2,746 of their citizens who came to the United States as part of the boat lift. The agency said Thursday it is working to deport him to the country he left as a toddler along with thousands of other Cubans in 1980 in what became known as the Mariel boat lift. About 2,000 Cubans have been sent back since then, and the rest have either died or are too old or sick to be deported. But when President Barack Obama ended the wet foot, dry foot policy in January that granted immigration privileges to Cubans since 1995, an overlooked policy change established that other Cuban refugees who also arrived from Mariel in 1980 may replace the names of the older or dead candidates from the original 1984 list as long as both countries agree on the cases. Cubans convicted after that agreement, such as Lima-Marin, are not automatically accepted by Cuba because of that deal. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.