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| Above, a Havana, Cuba flea market/bazaar in 2019. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Cubans fleeing Cuba has traditionally gone to Florida, this is still the case. But many are heading to the Houston, Texas area.
According to the Houston Chronicle:
Historic numbers of Cubans are crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, according to Customs and Border Protection, which clocked more than 175,000 encounters with Cubans at the southwest border in fiscal year 2022.
Roughly 9,000 of these Cubans have headed to Houston this fiscal year, making the city an emerging destination for Cuban arrivals, according to data from the five Houston-area refugee resettlement agencies that offer federal assistance to Cubans. This number doesn’t take into account any Cubans who might have moved to Houston from other parts of the country.
In 2019, greater Houston already had the second largest population of Cubans outside of Florida — at least 29,000 people, according to analysis by the nonpartisan think-tank Migration Policy Institute. The metro area is becoming an increasingly important landing point for Cuban immigrants, and may continue to see growth in this community as poverty and other country conditions push people out of Cuba and the United States continues to allow Cubans in.
Good! These Cubans know first hand how miserable life is under socialism/communism and can educate people who may be enticed by Democrat propaganda.
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