many got out. in the early days of fidel castro s rule in the country were the peter pan flights where parents would take their children to the airport and hope they would reunite with them placing them on airplanes. catholic families took care of them and then we have the mariel both lifts in the 1980s and under president bill clinton s administration so many people trying to escape the island by raft. the immigration policy is favorable if a cuban can make to it the u.s. soil, called wet foot-dry foot, if they can make one footprint on u.s. soil a year later they are here permanently. i will bring you back around
power when he released his control to his brother, raul. celebrations in havana in haem hahaem in miami, have been conti e continuing all morning. tell us how you are seeing the people of miami reacting to the death of fidel. reporter: it is a celebration to the death of the head of state because they believe as a dictator he destroyed a country they loved and had to leave in many cases. you can see them cheering. some people say they believe this is a symbolic death. not as if fidel castro is suddenly god and things will change in cuba. people have been gathering here, a time people have been waiting for, for a long time, wondering
assassination attempts by the cia and poor health forced him to turn power over to his brother, ralph. and people are in the streets to celebrate castro s death. we will have more. up next, acclaimed director, rob reiner joins us live. gels don t unstuff your nose. they don t? alka-seltzer plus night liquid gels fights your worst cold symptoms. plus, unstuffs your nose. oh, what a relief it is.
reporter: thanks very much. go ahead. before you let this wonderful young lady go, if you could ask her, there was a sense over the last few years among younger cuban americans the issue of castro was less potent and a desire for more openness, more open travel, ability to send money home. is she someone that wants to see the cuban embargo dropped or mainta maintained? reporter: this is a challe e challenging question for you because you have your father here and you fled cuba at four years old but you re also living in a new a new movement within miami where those who didn t actually live under fidel castro but just know the experiences from their parents are asked, should the united states now drop the embargo? we now have flights, moving towards a more open relationship. what do you think 11 administrations later. my opinion is more personal and even my dad agrees, we
rights and hopefully today marks a move away from the horror. of course, that is a different one than the statement we heard from president obama in which he essentially talked about the need to move forward in concert with the human people and expressed his condolences to the family of fidel castro. donald trump s very sharply worded in line with statements from lawmakers on capitol hill including ross lay lay ros-lehtinen. take a look at what she had to hear. a tyrant is dead and we do have a new president. president-elect trump has said he will roll back the concess n concessions president obama made and we are optimistic those sweetheart deals will benefit somehow the people of cuba. that never materialized, just benefits the dictatorship.