During the May Day Celebration Speech, Fidel Castro announced that amongst those leaving from Mariel were the "scum of the country- anti-socials, homosexuals, drug addicts, and gamblers, who are welcome to leave Cuba if any country will have them" (Portes and Stepick 21). ... The verdict was believed by many people to be fixed and an injustice by the Miami Police Department, or controversial to say the least. ...

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