Meet the Cubans stuck in Mexico under Donald Trump’s deportation campaign
- 'Like we were dogs'For Scull Delgado, life in the US began with the famous Mariel boatlift, a 1980 exodus that saw some 125,000 Cubans pile onto small, rickety boats and sail across the Florida Strait.
- Many were fleeing political persecution.
- Others had grown desperate as a result of the island's economic strife.
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- 'Like we were dogs'For Scull Delgado, life in the US began with the famous Mariel boatlift, a 1980 exodus that saw some 125,000 Cubans pile onto small, rickety boats and sail across the Florida Strait.
- Many were fleeing political persecution.
- Others had grown desperate as a result of the island's economic strife.
Sources: Al Jazeera