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Article: U.S. Must Depoliticize Immigration Policy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 17, 1995
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From the perspective of most Cuban exiles, last month's U.S. policy
shift regarding Cuba represents a betrayal, an insult and a major
step backward.
The United States no longer automatically grants political
asylum to every Cuban who lands on its shores. Cubans who arrive
illegally are now being returned to the island. This reverses a
policy in effect since the mid-1960s.
Most Americans are applauding this new action as a long-overdue
measure to discourage illegal immigration from Cuba.
But the majority of Cuban exiles - many of whom fled because of
political persecution - are outraged. They see President Clinton,
who has courted the traditionally Republican and conservative Cuban ...