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Would these Cuban doctors be likely to escape to the US via Liberia? Normally it's illegal for them (doctors) to travel outside of the country: http://www.bbc.
by throwaway_yy2Di 12y ago
Would these Cuban doctors be likely to escape to the US via Liberia? Normally it's illegal for them (doctors) to travel outside of the country:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130116-cuba-lifts-travel-restrictions http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20130116-cuba-lifts-travel-re...
(edit) Apparently the US explicitly permits Cuban doctors working abroad to emigrate to the US -- in contrast with most refugees, who have to physically set foot in the country to gain asylum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism#Defection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_medical_internationalism...
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/2009/115414.htm http://www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/2009/115414.htm
http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970203731004576045640711118766 http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240529702037310045760...
"...a wave of Cubans who have defected to the U.S. since 2006 under the little-known Cuban Medical Professional Parole immigration program, which allows Cuban doctors and some other health workers who are serving their government overseas to enter the U.S. immediately as refugees. Data released to The Wall Street Journal under the Freedom of Information Act shows that, through Dec. 16, 1,574 CMPP visas have been issued by U.S. consulates in 65 countries."
- megalodon 12y agoThat's funny, the US are keen on maintaining the embargo against Cuba but at the same time don't mind welcoming their doctors and thus admitting their superiority in medical education.
- freehunter 12y agoI'm not sure that welcoming Cuban doctors necessarily means admitting superior medical education. Most countries like well-educated immigrants, no matter what their former nation was. The US welcomed Nazi scientists to help build rockets and bombs, too. That wasn't a commentary on the Nazi regime other than that they had good scientists that were willing to defect.
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