Fear of being sent back to Cuba...
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Fear of being sent back to Cuba has kept more than half of Florida’s estimated 100,000 boatlift refugees from registering for permanent U.S. residency, despite government assurances that they will not be deported, federal immigration officials said in Miami. Mariano Faget Jr., a program director for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, said, “It must be that they just don’t trust us.”
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