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Article: Rocking the boat in Miami: Archdiocese offers hope to melting pot of people. (Miami, Florida Catholics) (Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 15, 1993
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Introduction
MIAMI -- What critics say may be the most salacious double standard practiced by the outgoing Bush administration appeared to have occurred here again in late December when 53 Cubans landed at Miami International Airport on board a hijacked airliner.
Within three days of flying into Miami from Havana, every passenger who wanted to stay in the United States was released from federal custody. Forty-eight refugees, backed by lawyers from the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, elected to stay as legal aliens. Five other Cubans were voluntarily repatriated.
Critics say that, had the plane left from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, ...