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• From Legal to Illegal A Brief Look into the Two
  Waves of Cuban Migration to the United States

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A Young Fidel Castro, the leader of The Revolution

• On January 8, 1959 Fidel Castro triumphantly
  marched into Havana, Cuba and overthrew President
  Batista, who was supported by the United States.
• In 1960, the U.S. government launched a trade
  embargo against Cuba in retaliation for Cuba's
  state appropriations and seized the assets of
  U.S. businesses .
• December 4, 1961 Castro publicly declared himself
  a Marxist-Leninist

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The 1960s Wave of Cuban Migrants to the United
States

• In just 3 years after the triumph of the
  Revolution, nearly a quarter of a million
  Cubans--mostly professionals and wealthy
  landowners--fled the country. They settled in
  nearby Florida and established a colony of
  conservative Cuban-Americans that in the coming
  decades achieved not only economic success but
  also a level of political clout that was
  disproportionate to its size.

• The Cubans that arrived in the first major wave
  of refugees came from the upper and middle
  classes and brought with them high levels of
  education, business experience, and familiarity
  with the United States

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The Kennedy Administration

• The United States launched the failed Bay of Pigs
  invasion, under President John F. Kennedy in 1961
  on Cuba which was originally planned by the
  Eisenhower Administration, because of the fear of
  the Soviet Union aiding the Castro regime in Cuba.

• This came during the anti-communist hysteria with
  what was know as McCarthyism. Many politicians
  lost elections and offices, people in show
  business got blacklisted in those in academia
  lost their jobs in fear of them being Communists.

• All hopes for United States investments in Cuba
  ended after the Soviets moved in.

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Mariel Boatlift Crisis

• April 1, 1980 six Cubans crashed a bus through
  the Peruvian embassy in Havana. Within
  seventy-two hours 10,000 Cubans were at the
  Peruvian Embassy seeking political asylum, though
  the majority had done anything to need the
  request of political asylum.

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• In a series of articles believed to be written by
  Castro, himself an announcement was made on the
  radio calling all those crowding the embassy,
  scum, criminals, lumpen, parasites, and
  antisocial elements and that none of them were
  subject to political persecution nor were they in
  need of the sacred rights of diplomatic asylum

• The Port of Mariel was flooded once the Cuban
  government official announced a new boatlift to
  leave Cuba.

April 19, 1980 more then a million people marched
in front of the Peruvian Embassy to show support
of Castro and the Revolution

• As far as Castro was concerned, the United States
  still practices an open-door immigration policy
  with regards to Cuba.

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The Clinton Administration
August 19, 1994
President Bill Clinton used his executive powers
and stopped migration from Cuba .
May 2, 1995
The Clinton Administrations decision to stop
granting Cuban migrants automatic political
asylum in the United States marked the end of an
era of unrestricted admission and preferential
treatment of Cubans based strictly on political
consideration.
Conclusion
This decision radically changed a
thirty-six-year-old policy designed to welcome
Cubans to the United States as political
refugees in order to discredit and undermine
Fidel Castros revolution .