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Judi Lynn

(160,631 posts) Tue Oct 16, 2012, 11:44 PM Oct 2012

New Cuban immigration rules could challenge U.S. policies

Source: Miami Herald

Posted on Tuesday, 10.16.12
New Cuban immigration rules could challenge U.S. policies

The U.S. says its entrance visa policy remains unchanged, but Cubans who find it easier to travel to third countries may use them as a springboard to enter the country.

By MIMI WHITEFIELD
mwhitefield@MiamiHerald.com

Cuba’s new migration rules throw the ball back into the U.S. court on travel between the two countries, and analysts say it could turn U.S. migration policy for Cubans on its head.

“It could put the United States in quite a pickle,’’ said David Abraham, professor of immigration law at the University of Miami.

But that won’t be because of a sudden influx of Cuban travelers arriving in the United States on charter flights. While Cubans may flood the U.S. Interests Section in Havana with requests to visit the United States, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday that visa requirements for Cubans remain unchanged.

Cuba announced Tuesday that on Jan. 14, it will eliminate letters of invitation and the so-called tarjeta blanca, or exit visa, which Cubans have needed to embark on foreign trips.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/10/16/3053139/new-cuban-immigration-rules-could.html#storylink=cpy

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New Cuban immigration rules could challenge U.S. policies (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2012 OP

Now that they're free to come, we won't let 'em. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2012 #1

Strange, isn't it? The right wing has lost one of its propanda points, only to learn Judi Lynn Oct 2012 #2

Comrade Grumpy

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1. Now that they're free to come, we won't let 'em.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:08 AM

Oct 2012

Now, Cubans will have to sneak in along with the other undocumented Latin Americans.

Judi Lynn

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2. Strange, isn't it? The right wing has lost one of its propanda points, only to learn

Reply to Comrade Grumpy (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 17, 2012, 12:36 AM

Oct 2012

behind the propaganda curtain, the U.S. Interests Section won't deliver a visa requested earlier this year until a LONG time from now.

They have been turning requests away for years and years. Of the 20,000 available each year to Cubans, as it has been, according to law, not NEARLY that many have approved annually. Travel to the U.S. from the U.S. has been been discouraged by OUR country.

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They have always, however, been more than welcome if they want to come here on their own, by boat, and are offered instant legal status, protection from the border patrol, of course, INS, as well as a green card, social security, welfare, food stamps, medical treatment, Sectiom 8 taxpayer-financed housing, etc., etc., etc.

That's IF they want to leave Cuba permanently, and be used as a political pawn against their country's government.

If they arrive on dry land, by smugglers, or their own boat, without being intercepted by the Coast Guard, they are home free, regardless of any past prison or police record they've left in Cuba. It's never been a big deal. They can arrive with no I.D. whatsoever, according the the Wet Foot/Dry Foot Act, Cuban Adjustment Act.

Once Cubans can't be used for cold war purposes, as in calling them "refugees" or "defectors" surely the U.S. government will have to stop paying their expenses once they get here by raft, boat or smugglers's go-fast boats.

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