Thread: Fleeing to U.S., Cubans’ First Stop Is Often Mexico

Fleeing to U.S., Cubans’ First Stop Is Often Mexico

http://www.nytimes.com



[size=75][b][i]The escape from Cuba to the United States increasingly includes a trip by boat to a place like Isla Mujeres, a coastal Mexican island whose harbor is shown here. From there, migrants travel north to the border, where they are interviewed by American border agents, who check their stories and usually allow them in under a “wet foot, dry footâ€