Mr. President. that was the agreement entered into in the spring of 1995 as a culmination of the series of events which began almost 9 months earlier with a mass migration of small boats from Cuba to the United States. which. in turn. led to the large number of persons who were detained at the United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay. Of those who came into the United States in 1995. 7.500 came in with the status of refugees. Of those. 7.500 would be excluded from the applicability of the Cuban Adjustment Act. under this provision. because it would only apply to parolees. Sixthousand came as visa immigrants. Those would be excluded from the application of the Cuban Adjustment Act. There were 14.000 who came as parolees through the migration agreement having applied to the United StatesCuban interest section in Havana.
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