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Thursday, 12 January 2017
quote [ The Obama administration is ending the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas. ]
The Democrats will never win over older cuban anti-castro voters so it's not a bad political move.
The Obama administration is ending the "wet foot, dry foot" policy that granted residency to Cubans who arrived in the United States without visas.
That's according to a senior administration official, who said the policy change was effective immediately. The “wet foot, dry foot” policy dictated that Cubans interdicted at sea were to be forcibly returned to their homeland, but the ones who made it to shore were accepted as refugees. The official said the U.S. and Cuba have spent several months negotiating the change, including an agreement from Cuba to allow those turned away from the U.S. to return. The move comes about a week before President Obama leaves office and is likely the last major change he will make to his overhaul of the U.S. relationship with Cuba
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HP Lovekraftwerk said @ 11:11pm GMT on 12th Jan
It's a vestigial policy of the Cold War anyway, and with normalized (for now) relations, it probably shouldn't still be in place.
I want to see anyone from the GOP defending this policy for undocumented immigration. The doublethink will be nice for future textbooks to cite as an example. |
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bbqkink said @ 12:22am GMT on 13th Jan
I want to see anyone from the GOP defending this policy for undocumented immigration.
Rubio comes to mind. |
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zarathustra said @ 12:37am GMT on 13th Jan
Those seeking asylum are not required to be documented however to benefit under the Cuban Adjustment Act ( which is more or less automatic asylum for anyone fleeing Cuba) a Cuban has to declare himself at a designated point of entry or, having entered elsewhere, move will all deliberate speed to such a place and declare himself. He will then be paroled in to the United States under the legal fiction that he is still standing at the border requesting admittance while his legal process plays out. This substitutes for having a visa ( as it does for any other refugee who declares himself similarly).
If a Cuban does not declare himself and seek entry this way, he is ineligible for benefits under the Cuban Adjustment act and must go through the process as if he was from anywhere else. Unlike other nationalities, it is the the Cubans best interest to immediately make himself known. |
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Fish said @ 9:58pm GMT on 14th Jan
This is a sop to the Castros and a fuck you to Florida for voting Trump.
Like the rest of Odipshit's on-the-way-out-the-door petulant foot stamping, this can be dealt with in a mature way when he's out of office. |
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