AZraver t1_jd3fhpg wrote
Reply to comment by spiderborland in Cuban catcher Iván Prieto defects from Cuba team in Miami by pandas795
He’s escaping a communist regime country, which when seeking asylum it’s easier to get into American you can say you’re escaping religious\political\violent persecution rather than crossing illegal. (It’s been said that the reason the federal government doesn’t designate the drug cartels terrorist organization because than a flood of “asylum seekers” go the border trying to get in here.) So I think it’s that’s the difference.
spiderborland t1_jd3ft8e wrote
A solid answer. That's fair. However, I feel like recent history doesn't show the US being particularly lenient for even non-Latin asylum seekers. Maybe this is just the establish status quo for the Cuban community.
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