Cuba has been at the center of a raging immigration debate in the U.S. over the last several weeks. President Donald Trump’s executive orders last week limiting immigration to the U.S. may be the first such directives in recent years, but they are hardly the first time the U.S. government has sought to restrict immigration. … Read more
From December 1960 to October 1962, more than fourteen thousand Cuban children arrived, unaccompanied, to the United States. Known as “Operation Pedro Pan,” it was the largest recorded child refugee exodus in the Western Hemisphere. Since it opened in June 2015, more than 15,000 visitors, including the Cuba Journal, have journeyed alongside the Cuban children … Read more
According to the Pew Research Center, the number of Cubans entering the US has spiked dramatically since President Obama announced in December a new era of cooperation with the island nation. It appears some Cubans fear the US-Cuba rapprochement will lead to a normalization of immigration rules between the two nations. Cubans received special treatment … Read more
