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Essay On Cuban Immigration

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Today the United States is a home to a huge number of Hispanics. Almost all Latin American migrants who come to the United States are looking for a better life. People leave Latin America because life there is very hard. Poverty, political instability and financial crises often make Latin American life more challenging than in the U.S., a wealthy country with lots of job opportunities.
Very large numbers of Mexicans entered the country to escape poverty and to find a way to make a living. The 20th-century Cuban migration was mainly for political reasons.
Cuban immigrants were largely white, middle and upper class, professional, and educated. They were easily accepted into the mainstream than other Latin American immigrants. The U.S. government classified Cubans as "political refugees" and all that reached the United States were allowed to stay in this country. The law fully supported Cuban refugees, offering them advantages unavailable to other migrant groups. For example, immigration benefits, including refugee resettlement assistance, under congressional legislation enacted specifically for their benefit. But Mexican and Central American migrants have been classified as "economic migrants," that is why all harsh border enforcement measures were used on them. In the 1980s, for example, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) actively …show more content…

When migrants come to US, they should find jobs. Here a lot of differences between Mexican, Central Americans and Cubans. When Cubans come, they have some level of education that is why they have much higher wages. Also, they almost all work in management businesses, like restaurants, hotels, and regular businesses. But it is different with Mexican and Central American migration. Coming here for them means to work on low wage jobs with no benefits, to be abused in the workplaces, always to live in fear not to be paid. I think this also effects on American attitude towards

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