Cuban Migration Policy and Issues (CRS Report for Congress)
| Release Date |
Revised Jan. 22, 2007 |
| Report Number |
RS20468 |
| Report Type |
Report |
| Authors |
Ruth Ellen Wasem, Domestic Social Policy Division |
| Source Agency |
Congressional Research Service |
| Older Revisions |
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Summary:
Many of the issues surrounding Cuban migration are unique but not new. Normal immigration from Cuba has been elusive since Fidel Castro came to power. Over the past 40 years, the practice of Cubans fleeing by boat to the United States has become commonplace, and at some points reached the levels of a mass exodus. Since the last upsurge of 'boat people' in the mid-1990s, the United States and Cuba worked toward establishing safe, legal immigration, which include returning migrants interdicted by the U.S. Coast Guard. Cuban interdictions hit a ten-year high of 2,712 in FY2005. These migration policies are not without critics. The January 2006 return of 15 Cubans apprehended by the U.S. Coast Guard on an old, unused Key West bridge has renewed calls for a reconsideration of the interdiction policy.
