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All immigrants should have equal rights

Over the past 40 years, people who have emigrated illegally from Cuba have been given special treatments more so than any other undocumented immigrants from other countries. Cubans have been coming to America for decades and the immigration policy for them is basically "if they make it to the U.S they get asylum and a green card". There are other immigrants who are fleeing from corrupt governments, poor conditions, and horrible economy. They are being held in detention center like criminals. What happened to equal protection under the law?

The reason why Cubans are being treated different from other immigrants is because of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 and the Cuban-U.S. migrant agreements of 1994 and 1995, and law added in 1996. The 1966 Act permitted any Cuban who had been in the U.S. for a year and a day, regardless of how they got here, to have their status adjusted to that of a Legal Permanent Resident. Rather than applying the laws that are set forth in the Immigration and Nationality Act, the U.S. treats Cubans as refugees, thereby allowing temporary entrance into the U.S... In addition, under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, they can apply for permanent residency and eventually citizenship under expatiated process designed for them. 

The most recent controversy of the immigration policy is the Wet-Foot-Dry-Foot, enacted in 1994, which recently created a conflict between other immigrants and Cuban immigrants. It grants only Cubans, who flee from their country, the right to stay in the United States legally if they made it to land. For example, if Cubans went to Mexico, crossed the border, touched the U.S soil, the United States Government granted asylums while other immigrants who performed the same acts are deported back to their homeland. Other immigrants and human activists oppose the Wet-Foot-Dry-Foot Policy, because they believe the policy is unfair, it violates human rights,...