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Sunkenking97 t1_jdb1av1 wrote

Reply to comment by tsloteconomist in As Cuba election day nears, some voters ask, 'why bother?' by Newgripper1221

Asylum vs immigrant calculated differently I guess?

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Quadrenaro t1_jdba1x8 wrote

^ My best friend growing up was Cuban. And the US tracks legal vs illegal immigration separately.

700k immigrated to the US legally last year.

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MonitorStandard3534 t1_jdcfmxe wrote

Whenever the State Department sets their cap for annual refugees, they earmark 50% or more of the Latin American applicants just for Cuba. This to ensure that they can be used as a Cold War talking point and that the majority of refugees fleeing from US backed states like Honduras, Guatemala or El Salvador don't come in such large numbers to influence US anti-communist foreign policy goals even though these countries have around 600,000 people trying to escape from these narco-states.

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