The Boatlift

White Lies

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🗓️ 2 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The story of the men on the roof didn't start with that prison takeover in 1991. It didn't start when they were detained in federal prisons. And it didn't start when the government made a secret list of their names in 1984. Instead, it started in the spring of 1980, with one of the largest refugee crises in American history: the Mariel Boatlift. Want to hear the next episode of White Lies a week before everyone else? Sign up for Embedded+ at plus.npr.org/embedded.

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0:00.0	Previously on White Laws.
0:05.0	You had that kind of in the back your head that bad things could happen any second.
0:09.2	Cuban inmates took over part of a federal prison in Talladega, Alabama today.
0:14.2	Had the whole list been deported, there wouldn't have been any more reason for my job.
0:19.2	Even though we were hostage and they threatened us and everything,
0:22.8	they still treated us with dignity and respect.
0:27.2	Justice, freedom or death.
0:36.2	These guys, I have more people work on the Cuban stuff.
0:42.2	We're in downtown Atlanta at the offices of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.
0:46.2	And our guide Gary Lashaw, a longtime staff attorney here.
0:50.2	Let's go upstairs.
0:52.2	I don't know if Angie is here.
0:54.2	I'm happy to talk to you guys. I'm a little scattered today.
0:58.2	While Gary is now retired, he worked here for 20 years.
1:01.2	And he still does a lot of volunteer work for Legal Aid.
1:04.2	So he finds himself in the office quite a bit.
1:06.2	I'm going upstairs, but we'll be up and down.
1:08.2	So don't lock me out.
1:10.2	Gary wants us to meet some of the attorneys, the building manager, the security guy.
1:14.2	Hey, this is Chippen Andy, more Cuban stuff.
1:18.2	And he's doing all this because he wants us to have access to what has been brought out of storage and placed in the basement.
1:23.2	All right. Let's go back down.
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