Some made it and then were send back at gunpoint.
This was a sad day for America and still is, the dimwits in the White House caused the best and brightest of the Cubans to leave Cuba to take refuge in the US and then the US tied their hands from taking Cuba back. Over the years over a million Cubans have fled Castro’s socialist hell to the US and no doubt many more would if they could. Many on make shift floats and many didn’t make it. In another Jimmy Carter fiasco, to accommodate the Mariel Boatlift Castro emptied his jails and mental institution sending the inmates to the US as they were greeted here in this country by the Carter administration.
Some made it and then were send back at gunpoint.