It's a good point Bubba, however, the two situations are vastly different, not only in scope, but in potential influx, and make up of the people coming here.
According to Global Security.org
"The Mariel Boatlift officially began April 15, 1980 and ended October 31, 1980, with the arrival of over 125,000 Cubans to Southern Florida from Port of Mariel, Cuba."
Mariel Boatlift
The make up of these people was of labor wage earning families, and like, NOT predominantly children. According to reports to date some 51,000 children as young as you can imagine (in diapers) have crossed the border and turned themselves in. Why?
IMHO, the projection of this administration to say that they would run blocker, and pave the way for this by their inept, inaction toward enforcing our border enforcement is a siren song for this to happen, if not a planned crisis. Not in the sense that this hyperbolic nonsense of "bringing down America" that so often hits the partisan airwaves, but rather a governing by distraction, and deflection....
Don't want coverage on Fast and Furious? in pops a crisis
Don't want coverage on Benghazi? in pops a crisis
Don't want coverage on Lois Lerner and the IRS? in pops a crisis
Don't want coverage on the VA? in pops a crisis
How much more of this foolish game will we stand for this childish game of distraction? It is a shame and insults the collective intelligence of every American citizen....