Thousands of orphans and other Haitian children displaced by the earthquake may be airlifted to Florida in a humanitarian project that has roots in a similar mass exodus from Cuba half a century ago.
Operation Pierre Pan would be a near repeat of Operación Pedro Pan, in which 14,048 unaccompanied Cuban children started new lives in the US in the early 1960s. The new arrivals would live in temporary shelters in south Florida. - ( Guardianservice)