And Little Havana's population swelled again during six months in 1980, when more than 100,000 Cubans were permitted to leave Castro's island en masse in what came to be called the Mariel Boatlift.
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Over a 130, 000 Cubans have arrived here since 2000, more than during the entire Mariel Boatlift.
That includes its efforts during the Mariel Boatlift from April to September 1980, when about 124, 000 Cuban migrants used mostly U.S. vessels to try to get to the United States.
Most notably, an estimated 25, 000 Haitians were among the mass migration of more than 150, 000 asylum seekers who arrived in South Florida during the Mariel boatlift, an exodus of mostly Cuban migrants in 1980.