By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--January 13, 2017
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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 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.
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Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) praised the move, saying, "Individuals on both sides of the U.S.-Cuba debate recognize and agree that ending ‘wet foot, dry foot’ is in our national interest…It’s a move that brings our Cuba policy into the modern era while allowing the United States to continue its generous approach to those individuals and refugees with a legitimate claim for asylum." according to USA Today.If anyone fails to understand why Cuban refugees need this special status, they should look into the history of human rights under the Castro regime. Then again, Cuba is now on the UN's Human Rights Commission, and we all know how much Obama loves the UN. This appears to be little more than Obama's latest pointless giveaway to a despotic regime, with no commensurate benefit coming back to the United States, and certainly nothing good resulting for the long-suffering people of Cuba. If Trump is even thinking about leaving Obama's policy change in place, someone should take him aside and explain to him why we've had it for more than 20 years, and why we need to keep it in place until the communists are gone from Cuba.
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