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  • From Legal to Illegal A Brief Look into the Two
    Waves of Cuban Migration to the United States

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A Young Fidel Castro, the leader of The Revolution
  • On January 8, 1959 Fidel Castro triumphantly
    marched into Havana, Cuba and overthrew President
    Batista, who was supported by the United States.
  • In 1960, the U.S. government launched a trade
    embargo against Cuba in retaliation for Cuba's
    state appropriations and seized the assets of
    U.S. businesses .
  • December 4, 1961 Castro publicly declared himself
    a Marxist-Leninist

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The 1960s Wave of Cuban Migrants to the United
States
  • In just 3 years after the triumph of the
    Revolution, nearly a quarter of a million
    Cubans--mostly professionals and wealthy
    landowners--fled the country. They settled in
    nearby Florida and established a colony of
    conservative Cuban-Americans that in the coming
    decades achieved not only economic success but
    also a level of political clout that was
    disproportionate to its size.
  • The Cubans that arrived in the first major wave
    of refugees came from the upper and middle
    classes and brought with them high levels of
    education, business experience, and familiarity
    with the United States

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The Kennedy Administration
  • The United States launched the failed Bay of Pigs
    invasion, under President John F. Kennedy in 1961
    on Cuba which was originally planned by the
    Eisenhower Administration, because of the fear of
    the Soviet Union aiding the Castro regime in Cuba.
  • This came during the anti-communist hysteria with
    what was know as McCarthyism. Many politicians
    lost elections and offices, people in show
    business got blacklisted in those in academia
    lost their jobs in fear of them being Communists.
  • All hopes for United States investments in Cuba
    ended after the Soviets moved in.

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Mariel Boatlift Crisis
  • April 1, 1980 six Cubans crashed a bus through
    the Peruvian embassy in Havana. Within
    seventy-two hours 10,000 Cubans were at the
    Peruvian Embassy seeking political asylum, though
    the majority had done anything to need the
    request of political asylum.

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  • In a series of articles believed to be written by
    Castro, himself an announcement was made on the
    radio calling all those crowding the embassy,
    scum, criminals, lumpen, parasites, and
    antisocial elements and that none of them were
    subject to political persecution nor were they in
    need of the sacred rights of diplomatic asylum
  • The Port of Mariel was flooded once the Cuban
    government official announced a new boatlift to
    leave Cuba.

April 19, 1980 more then a million people marched
in front of the Peruvian Embassy to show support
of Castro and the Revolution
  • As far as Castro was concerned, the United States
    still practices an open-door immigration policy
    with regards to Cuba.

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The Clinton Administration
August 19, 1994
President Bill Clinton used his executive powers
and stopped migration from Cuba .
May 2, 1995
The Clinton Administrations decision to stop
granting Cuban migrants automatic political
asylum in the United States marked the end of an
era of unrestricted admission and preferential
treatment of Cubans based strictly on political
consideration.
Conclusion
This decision radically changed a
thirty-six-year-old policy designed to welcome
Cubans to the United States as political
refugees in order to discredit and undermine
Fidel Castros revolution .
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