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From: bob@pedsgd.UUCP (Robert A. Weiler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: America-bashing (really emigration from Cuba)
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 10:45:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 10:45:10 1985
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In article <1548@bbncca.ARPA> rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) writes:
>What Tony Wuersch ignores in trying to deny the unique significance
>of emigration from Cuba is that 10% of Cuba's entire population
>has left since Castro came to power, the highest proportion in
>all of Latin America.
>
>But statistics aren't the only indicator: it's fairly easy to
>differentiate between large emigrations like Mexicans to the US
>Southwest and Cubans to the US & Spain as to cause & motive,
>& thus identify the unique character of flight from Cuba.
>
>						Ron Rizzo
This sort of statistic is in fact incredibly misleading. Before
Castro came to power, Cubans were not ALLOWED to come to the
US because of immigration quotas. After they became refugees from
communist dictatorship instead of economic refugees, the quotas
were dropped completely. Exactly what criteria one use
to fairly easily differentiate Mexican and Cuban flight?

Bob Weiler.