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Cuban Congressman Asks Ban on Immigrants from 14 Countries

May 21, 1939
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Congressman Antonio Prumeda today asked Parliament to prohibit immigration into Cuba of the citizens of 14 countries. His bill would bar immigrant from Germany, Russia, China, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Rumania, Haiti and Jamaica. It was believed aimed chiefly at checking Jewish immigration.

Congressman Pruneda also asked President Laredo Bru decree a census of Central Europeans who arrived here in the parts three years for the purpose of deporting those competing with Cuban workers.

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