Yoorghis
5/23/2012 3:46:00 PM
On Wed, 23 May 2012 05:32:53 +0000, Dave Heil <k8mn@frontiernet.net>
wrote:
>> set foot on land---you automatically became a citizen. (Cubans only)
Cubans who manage to get here (walking, swimming, flying, boating,
etc)....are not deported. Once here, their path to citizenship is
almost assured.
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Before the 1980s, all refugees from Cuba were welcomed into the United
States as political refugees. This changed in the 1990s so that only
Cubans who reach U.S. soil are granted refuge under the "wet feet, dry
feet policy". While representing a tightening of U.S. immigration
policy, the wet foot, dry foot policy still affords Cubans a
privileged position relative to other immigrants to the U.S. This
privileged position is the source of a certain friction between Cuban
Americans and other Latin citizens and residents in the United States,
adding to the tension caused by the divergent foreign policy interests
pursued by conservative Cuban Americans. Cuban immigration also
continues with an allotted number of Cubans (20,000 per year) provided
legal U.S. visas.