10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Shaanie on Sunday July 21, 2024 @02:02AM (#41022782)

America also just have way fewer refugees. Seems like it's around 60k a year, so less than 0.02% of the population per year. Sweden, for example, has had around 26k refugees per year (the last 10 years), which is around 0.2% of its population. At its peak Sweden almost took on a full 1% in one year.

Of course it's easier to integrate a magnitude fewer refugees, and there will be less issues overall.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by oezi on Sunday July 21, 2024 @03:29AM (#41023200)

Oh, I always thought it is around 500k illegal immigrants per year in the US (these aren't considered refugees I guess)

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by weweweoo on Sunday July 21, 2024 @04:48AM (#41023517)

The illegal migrants coming to the US know they have to work if they wish to eat. Meanwhile, coming to Sweden has been just a ticket to easy life, where you get free housing and money, but will be probably excluded from the job market unless you learn the language and get several years of education.

So, in practice the two phenomena are very different.

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Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year by Seattle3503 on Sunday July 21, 2024 @02:15AM (#41022844)

That's true as well economic migrants are very different from refugees. The US is experiencing this more recently with refugees from Venezuela.

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