In May, 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba, to let some
of his people join their families in the United States.

Most of the 125,000 "marielitos" who streamed into Florida were honest,
hard-working people -- eager for a new life in a free land.

But not all. Castro seized the opportunity to play Samaritan while exporting
Cuba's crime rate to the United States. Hidden among the newcomers were the
dregs of the island's jails, criminals considered beyond redemption.

They, too, saw America as a land of opportunity.

Among the most ambitious was Tony Montana, the one called "Scarface"...