Welcome Mat for Cuban “Refugees”, Border Fence for Mexican “Illegals”

Although the U.S. government has made some efforts to discourage migrants from Cuba from coming by sea to the United States, migrants from Cuba, as “refugees” from the Castro regime, generally have received preferential treatment over migrants from other countries in the region — Haiti, for example.  Reuters reports a new wrinkle on this pattern:

“The United States has tightened security on the Mexican border and deported illegal immigrants but one group of Hispanics is welcome at border posts: Cubans fleeing the communist island.

Unlike migrants from across Latin America who trek through deserts and mountains to enter the United States, Cubans only have to show up and request political asylum to be allowed in.

With the U.S. Coast Guard stemming the flow of Cubans across the Florida Straits, record numbers now head for Mexico and then travel overland to the U.S. border on routes used by hundreds of thousands of other Hispanic immigrants a year.”

KJ