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The Cuban government is protesting what it considers a violation of an agreement between that country and the United States after the US recently announced that this year it won’t grant the annual minimum 20,000 visas for the first year since the start of the accord in 1994. The Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. had only granted 10,724 Cuban visas for the fiscal year, and that the State Department released a statement that the U.S won’t be meeting the allotted visa minimum due to "Cuba’s repeated failure to meet its obligations" to address U.S concerns "about operational safety at the U.S. Interests Section."
U.S. and Mexican officials have both reported an increase in the number of Cubans showing up at the U.S.-Mexico border to claim asylum, many via smuggling networks. The difference between Cubans and other migrants caught entering the U.S. without papers at the Mexican border: Cubans get permission to stay once they reach U.S. soil, while the others, if caught, are deported.
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