8 Mariel Cubans Flown Back Home
Eight Mariel Cubans ordered deported by special federal review panels were flown back to their homeland Thursday, the Justice Department announced.
The Cubans were being flown aboard a government plane from Birmingham, Ala., to an airport outside Havana, said Joe Krovisky, a Justice Department spokesman.
The eight are among 33 who have been ordered deported since December, when Justice Department panels began reviewing the cases of 400 Cubans who entered this country illegally during the so-called Mariel boatlift of 1980.
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