10/25/15
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After Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, a steady stream of Cuban refugees migrated to America because they wanted to avoid capitalism, but too many Cubans wanted admission to the U.S. for traditional immigration pathways to handle, so the first Cuban "boatlift" sailed the refugees 90 miles from Camarioca to the coast of Florida. Then, in order for the United States to control the massive influx of Syrian refugees, the government established the current "wet-foot, dry-foot policy", saying that Cubans caught in the water will be sent back, but those caught on the shore may stay and work in the U.S.
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The map shown above is a map of the far western portion of the Middle East. The reason that I colored this map is because it contains Syria, but more specifically, all of the countries involved in the Syrian Refugee Crisis. Since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War in 2011, a total estimated number of 9 million Syrians have fled from their homes and taken refuge on the countries bordering Syria, or within other parts of Syria. According to The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), over 3 million Syrians have fled to countries neighboring Syria such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. Over 6.5 million refugees are internally displaced within Syria, with an estimated 150,000 more declaring asylum in the European Union. Absorbing the influx of Syrian refugees has been an enormous problem for countries neighboring Syria, with serious consequences on the stability of the entire region.
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