Saturday, February 26, 2005

Mariel Cubans in New Orleans

I read this article from the Times Picayune on Monday at my Service Learning site, which is the Catholic Charities Immigration and Refugee Services Office. This office provided numerous services to refugees, detainees, and immigrants that are seeking assistance. Recently, the Supreme Court Ruled that all detainees that are being indefinitely detained because their home countries would not take them back had to be released. This includes the Mariel Cubans that came over on a boat to the US in 1980. This article talks about how the recently released Mariel Cubans are going to be dropped off in New Orleans, with no help or support from the government. This is a very importance situation because the government is doing nothing to support these people and they are just throwing them out on the streets with nothing and making them fend for themselves, and what makes this even worse is that they are being dropped off in New Orleans, which for many of these Cubans is not where they want to be at all.

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