Long-range thinking key to managing migrant issues

In 1980, 15,000 Haitians took to boats to come to America. President Jimmy Carter initially welcomed the refugees. The impact on Florida labor markets, however, and the contemporaneous arrival of Cuban refugees (including criminals and insane people) in the Mariel boatlift turned United States public opinion.
President Ronald Reagan ordered a new policy. Since American law grants any foreigner who makes it to U.S. territory the right to petition for asylum, the new policy sought to keep Haitians