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Mariel—Coast Guard Operations during the 1980 Cuban Exodus
—The size of the refugee flotilla was staggering. Trailered boats were lined up 50 to 100 deep in Key West waiting their turn to be launched. This went on for between 36 to 48 hours; residents could hear the activity around the clock.
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Saving Sunbeam—a deadly human trafficking case over 100 years ago
—After the schooner rolled over and disappeared beneath the surface, the only evidence that the vessel had ever been there were a single lifeboat with two persons aboard, and around half-a-dozen men thrashing in the frigid water
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Maturing and Making an Impact—Coast Guard Intelligence in the 1980s and 1990s
—In the early 1990s Coast Guard Intelligence made extensive contributions to mass migration preparation and response.
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Raising “The White Picket Fence”—the origin of the Coast Guard’s Haitian Migration Interdiction Operations
—While 1980 is most remembered for the arrival of 125,00 Cuban refugees during the Mariel Boatlift, thousands of Haitians also arrived in south Florida by sea that same year. They were collectively referred to as “Cuban-Haitian Entrants.”