Archive Report
Archive Report
Spotlight on the Caribbean
Questions Raised by Cuban ’Boat People’
The next few months will provide a severe test of America's ability — and will — to regulate foreign immigration into this country. The Carter administration has committed itself to an effort to cut off the flow of Cuban “boat people” into southern Florida. The policy is opposed by the Cuban-American exile community and by supporters of America's traditional “open door” response to the world's homeless and oppressed. The policy is staunchly defended, on the other hand, by those who fear the social and economic consequences of continued unchecked illegal immigration, not only of Cubans fleeing the Castro regime, but also of Mexicans, Haitians, Jamaicans and other Caribbean and Central American nationals.
During the second half of ...