why is a different between cuba and haiti  immigration policy in united states?
956053
The cubans have what is called the 'dry foot rule'.  If we catch them before they make it to land we send them back.  If they make one foot onto u.s. soil, they get amnesty because they come from a communist country and we don't send people back to communist cuba if they are seeking refuge.
141987
The US has money and Haiti does not.
692916
No. America wants to push out illegal immigrants. There's a major difference.
361558
As I understand it, the so-called Law of Cuban Adjustment  grants automatic refuge to illegal Cuban immigrants.\n\nTherefore, I have to say that the US Government is promoting it.
510070
Under President Adolfos L Mateos, Kennedy was in Mexico City. It was on the policy of pro-life. Mexico double speaks on the issue. They have non pro-life policy. \nAlso, there was a Cuba issue at the time. Mexico sided with Cuba which was against our policy. \nWe had to deal with Mexico regarding Germany also as Mexico was going to sign a non aggression pack with Germany so they wouldn't get involve helping the US. Though out history Mexico has not been on our side without pressure.
1033122
Don't know where you read your history, but you need to go back over it. The US has poured tons of money and food into Haiti. Your own government stole most of it, and your people asked everyone NOT to help and specifically the US NOT to be there. Now you want to complain we didn't do anything? For shame on YOU!
1091747
I also feel this law is outdated and should be abolished.  In fact, just tonight, I watched a show on TV that said that some years back the Cuban government released all of their worst criminals and put them on shoddy boats aimed towards the USA in order to get rid of their worst criminals and take advantage of the stupid foot on dry land law for Cubans.  I don't understand why the USA isn't quicker at changing laws that are outdated.  Other countries are so quick to take advantage and they obviously keep right up to the minute on what our laws are.  \n\nRegardless, we still have laws about immigration and I want them enforced and I want ALL illegal immigrants deported and I want this done asap, regardless of the cost, because I believe the cost will be less to the American taxpayers in the long run.  If our immigration laws are outdated, they should  be updated, and if things take too long, they should be changed so that applications can be expedited, but the USA has a right to determine who they want for immigrants and how many of them they want and where they should live and what types of jobs they will do.  It is unfair that they flock to certain states and towns and so overburdening the social services, school systems, corrections systems, and medical care of those areas.  With proper immigration systems, people are told where they can go.  The immigrants aren't the ones to decide where they will go - the government has the say as to where they can go.  With illegal immigration - they flock to wherever they want and this causes some areas to be overburdened and without the proper tax basis to support them and actually causing a negative effect on the legal US citizens and immigrants in those areas.\n\nThere is a real, sane reason why a country should have a say in who gets in and where they will go.
648452
Apparently, they are fleeing a communist regime. Just because Cuba is communist doesn't mean that it is the worst country in the world for its citizens. Try Haiti. Try countries in Africa. Try Southeastern Asia. Try Afghanistan. Our immigration laws should be more compassionate and should strive to help those who are MOST IN NEED. It shouldn't help illegals that broke the law. It shouldn't help those who the US wants to immigrate here just so that the government can embarass Castro. IT HASN'T WORKED IN 40 YEARS!!!!! Cubans should go through the process LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!!!
687197
USA has a strong immigration system. Ironically, a certain number of illegal immigrants is required to sustain the U.S economy. There are certain segments where it is very difficult or expensive to find local workers like farming, cleaning and construction work.\n\nYes you are right some of the immigration policies are obsolete and needs to be revised.  For example the U.S government is running a visa lottery program intended to benefit the countries who have immigration less than the annual per country limit. This lottery program is a little absurd because there is no hard rules even a very low qualified person can get a green card because he has won in the draw. Instead of this the Government can revise to introduce a point system where points are awarded based upon the qualification and expertise needed in the U.S. If one scores the minimum points required, he can file for immigration.  In this way, U.S will get only those persons who are required or are in shortage in U.S.  Many countries like U.K. Canada, Newzealand and Australia are running such programs.
165153
Many reasons.  There was oppression and famine in europe.  The US relaxed it's policy on immigration.  There were jobs to be had in the US.
148054
United Statates most definetly does not have an "open door" policy with regards to immigration. It does not have an active immigration program like Canada does.\n\nPersonally, as much as I don't like Bush, his guest worker program proposal makes sense, this would stop illegal immigration by a large extent.\n\nAlso I belive that the US should concentrate more on selecting educated people to come to the US, right now these people represent a small minority from the immigration programs available.
364541
Haiti's not a part of the U.S. We're not repsonsible for how things are run there or what's going on there. Of course we can provide aid and assistance, which I'm sure we are in some way, but there's only so much that the U.S. can do. We TOO have problems of our own to take care of including poverty and instability.\n\n\nHowever, there are ties to the U.S.\n\nHaiti has always been one of the poorest countries in the Americas. Much of this is due to post-independence schemes of the former colonial power- France. In 1838, the French agreed to recognize Haitian independence under the condition that Haiti pay 150 million francs (worth several billion dollars today) as an indemnity for the loss suffered by French slave owners in the loss of their slaves and plantations. Unable to make payments, Haiti, in an attempt to win international acceptance, was forced to seek loans totaling some seventy million francs. Not until 1862 did the United States finally recognize Haiti as a sovereign nation, and send diplomatic representation. Through the 19th century it was ruled by a series of dictators of varying degrees of incompetence. The outside world took little notice until 1915, when the country's unpayable debt led to American occupation.
121198
Yes, there is a difference because the people who born in US have a constitutional citizenship, that’s a citizenship derive by constitution but there are people who actually are US citizens but don’t born in US, nether in US military base camp and that people have a statutory citizenship and that’s derived by law. That people enjoy must of the benefits in the constitution and the responsibilities but not all of theme. For example the people who are from Puerto Rico are US citizens but that people can’t vote for the president of the US in Puerto Rico, if that people move to Florida or New York or other state of the nation then they can vote for the president. .
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Under the Cuban Adjustment Act, any Cuban national who has resided in the U.S. for at least one year can petition USCIS for lawful permanent residency. In the interim period, they are offered what is basically an abbreviated form of asylum until the one-year time period passes.
803484
I am not sure what the other poster is getting at but both the Cuban and Canadian medical systems are inferior to the US quality of medicare.  Having had relatives who have died due to budget cuts in the Canadian system and I have visited Cuba and seen people begging in the streets to foreign tourists for money so they can get medication (Castro likes to cover that stuff up) I have found both awful.  The reality is that Canada and Cuba have more universal coverage than the US in general -but if you feel that way - just move to Massachusetts and you can get the Universal coverage and the best quality care in the world.  However, none of this answers your question, but let me give you a link to Russian medical schools - this one here should help you http://www.iime.org/database/europe/russia.htm  \n\nI would contact the schools directly because there isn't a set process for every school that is exactly the same (although in Russia the are pretty close - you should still contact each school individually).  I wish you the best of luck for you and your daughter!!!
1147621
During the Spanish-American War in 1898, we helped Cuba gain their freedom (we also annexed Guam and the Philippines during this time).  As a part of Cuba's written constitution dating back to the end of the war, the US could install bases in Cuba that could not be removed without consent of both Cuba and the US.  There were originally three bases we established, but only one (Guantanamo) remains in Cuba today.\n\nAnd Orlando57 brings up a good point about the USS Maine.  When investigators (both Spanish and American) took a look at the explosion shortly after it happened, they actually found the the Spanish probably did NOT attack the ship in the first place.  That has led many historians to believe that the US blew up the ship so we could lay fault on Spain and have an excuse to go to war with them.  We wanted to remove Spain's presence from the Caribbean, and we also wanted cheaper access to Cuba's sugar at the time.
824020
Yes I agree with you. Cubans can stay in the U.S as long as they reach U.S soil, and no one throws a fuse. Are Canadian borders are left open and no one throws a fuse. But God forbid Mexicans coming over to look for work is a cause for panic.