Who Do I Call My Countryman?

In the summer of 1994, an estimated 80,000 desperate Cubans and Haitians attempted a mass migration to the United States across the Caribbean Ocean in makeshift rafts and boats. Those that survived were rescued from the sea and taken to the US Navy base at Guantanamo, Cuba, where US Navy Seabees constructed massive tent cities in a large-scale humanitarian mission code-named Operation Sea Signal. The US Air Force deployed two field hospitals to provide medical care for the migrants, many of...