Imagine one of the largest migrations of children in the history of the world going unnoticed. A children’s crusade of sorts, twentieth-century style, silent, invisible, ideologically driven, and painful beyond belief. Imagine also the Central Intelligence Agency and the White House cooperating with an Irish-American monsignor and the Archdiocese of Miami to establish and maintain an efficient exodus machinery that created thousands of instant Cuban orphans and scattered them all over North America. Imagine thousands of Cuban parents sending their children to a foreign land willingly, even eagerly, into a void of sorts, where they knew no one, penniless, not knowing who would look after them or where they might end up. Imagine these parents seeing their children fly away from them, not knowing whether they would ever again be reunited. Imagine thousands of children, some as young as two or three years old, sundered from their families and their...
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