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Unlike A Consolidated City-county Where The City And County Governments Merge Into A Single Entity These Two Entities Are Separate Instead There Are Two "tiers" Or Levels Of Government: City And County There Are 34 Municipalities In The County The City Of Miami Being The Largest
The Mariel Boatlift of 1980 brought 150,000 Cubans to Miami the largest transport in civilian history Unlike the previous exodus of the 1960s most of the Cuban refugees arriving were poor some having been released from prisons or mental institutions to make the trip During this time many of the middle class non-Hispanic whites in the community left the city often referred to as the "white flight" in 1960 Miami was 90% non-Hispanic white but by 1990 it was only about 10% non-Hispanic white. Florida Suncoast Miami Executive Airport 1.2 Presidents North Florida, Barry University (private/Catholic) Throughout the 1980s the school district was recognized for expertly assimilating wave after wave of new immigrants particularly children from Nicaragua and Haiti and from Cuba's Mariel Boatlift it was highly regarded for its handling of displaced students after the 1982 Miami riot in which 14 schools were badly damaged due to fire and vandalism.[citation needed] the Haitian students who came during the 1980s and 1990s were mostly low income and high school-aged students generally attended Miami Edison High School.
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