. >> host: what was the governmen> policy that set brothers to thec rescue in motion.he >> guest: well, the government -- there was no gov really government policy thatm sets them in motion. >> host: what happened that set? this all in motion? >> guest: well, it was all a result of cuba's failed government policies probably, andie people were leaving by any means that they could possibly come up with.wa and there was all of a sudden a surge of rafters leaving cuba. and one day one young rafter, 1 years old, the coast guard filmed the rescue, and he died in the arms of the coast guard agent. jose basulto's friend billy saw it on the news, and he calledmeh them and said we have to do something about this, and that's how brothers to the rescue got started. >> guest: and as i say when government doesn't provide -- it was the coast guard that, by tht way, was extremely helpful tond us. without them, we wouldn't have been able to do our job. our but to find the rafters, that t was ourhe job. that was our community's interest. and we implemented brothers to the rescue as a tool to provide for