Abstract

The area now known as the United States of America has been, since the earliest European settlers, a place of ideological freedom, political asylum, and economic opportunity for people from many countries. Only recently, however, has the government of the United States distinguished between refugees and immigrants as a matter of law and public policy. The provision of assistance to persons admitted to this country, as a public rather than a wholly private responsibility, is a still more recent development.2 The first major refugee assistance program was created for Cubans who fled to the United States after the fall of the Batis-

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