<P> In late 1999, U.S. news media focused on the case of Elián González, the six - year - old Cuban boy caught in a custody battle between his relatives in Miami and his father in Cuba, after the boy's mother died trying to bring him to the United States . On April 22, 2000, ICE (now USCIS) agents took Elián González to the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C. From there, his father took him back to Cuba . </P> <P> On January 12, 2017, President Barack Obama announced the immediate cessation of the wet feet, dry feet policy . The Cuban government agreed to accept the return of Cuban nationals . Beginning with the United States--Cuban Thaw in 2014, anticipation of the end of the policy had led to increased numbers of Cuban immigrants . </P> <P> In the census in 2000 there were 1,241,685 Cuban Americans, and in the 2010 census there were 1,785,547 (both native and foreign born), and represented 3.5% of all Hispanics, and 0.58% of the US population . 983,147 were born abroad in Cuba, 628,331 were U.S born and of the 1.6 million, 415,212 were not U.S citizens . In the 2013 ACS, there were 2,013,155 Cuban Americans . The 2010 US Census shows that 85% report of Cubans that immigrated to the USA from Cuba identify as being white . The most recent 2012 Cuban census has the island population at 64.12% white, 26.62% mulatto, 9.26% black, and 0.1% Asian . </P> <P> The ancestry of Cuban Americans is primarily from Spaniards and Black Africans, as well as more distant ancestry from among the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean and those of Florida . During the 18th, 19th and early part of the 20th century, there were waves of Spanish immigration to Cuba (Castilians, Basques, Canarians, Catalans, Andalusians, Asturians and Galicians). Canarians immigrated to many countries along the Caribbean from Louisiana to Venezuela . But Cuba was the Latin American culture most influenced by the emigration of Canary Islanders (they developed the production of sugar in Cuba), and Cuban Spanish is closest to that of the Canary Islands . Canary Islanders were viewed by other Spanish - Cubans as superstitious but also hard - working . Some of Haiti's white population (French) migrated to Cuba after the Haitian War of Independence in the early 18th century . Also, minor but significant ethnic influx is derived from diverse peoples from Middle East places such as Lebanon and Palestine . </P>

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