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Now it was even harder to escape. For decades, the United States had rescued any Cuban
refugees they found at sea and taken them to Florida. But the food shortages had driven more and
more Cubans to el norte. Too many. The Americans had a new policy everyone called "Wet
Foot, Dry Foot." If Cuban refugees were caught at sea with "wet feet," they were sent to the US
naval base at Guantanamo Bay, at the southern end of Cuba. From there, they could choose to
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