Miami Herald: The Obama administration said Thursday it is ending the controversial “wet-foot, dry-foot” policy — essentially turning the clock on decades of preferential treatment for Cuban refugees — and making those who arrive without visas subject to deportation.
The so-called “wet-foot” part of the policy was implemented following the 1994 rafter crisis that brought some 35,000 Cubans to U.S. shores.
The change, which took effect immediately, brought to a halt the practice that gave Cubans who arrive at U.S. borders without visas automatic entry to the United States — even if they had been smuggled in by human traffickers.
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SNIP: OK. So what’s the catch? This is 0bama we’re talking about and there’s always a catch.
The catch is fewer future citizens who love America and vote “R”.
They probably looked at the demographics and realized that the Cuban population dominantly voted Republican
He’s gonna give Gitmo back to the Cubanos. WATCH.
“Wet foot”. Isn’t that racist like “Wet back”?
He is doing the commies a favor. Cubans would all move hear otherwise after Trump takes office.
This is just a continuation of long-standing Democrat tradition of returning slaves to their masters. Remember Dred Scott and the Fugitive Slave Acts?
The last days of the Turd Reich. Add this one to Trumps January 20th List.
Too bad Mexico didn’t go communist. Barky would have been deporting the hell out of them for eight years.
@Thirdtwin-“Turd Reich”, now that is funny.
he wouldn’t do it except they vote republican and are not muslim.
how hypocritical can this asshole get.
let all kinds of dem hispanic and muslim voters in over southern border but block out the repub voting cubans?
I wish we had a media to gut check this hypocrisy.
He wouldn’t do this if they were muslims.
Some Latin American people are more equal than others.
Looks to me like Cuba holds some promise for yacht building.
And while you’re ripping up Barky’s Cuba Doctrine, President Trump, consider this:
“Cuban voters in Florida tip modestly Republican, which helps explain Obama’s immigration restrictionist move today.
The Democrats have been letting Puerto Rico fall apart to drive Puerto Ricans to the crucial purple state of Florida. The solution is independence for the island.”
http://www.unz.com/isteve/how-trump-can-top-obama-ending-cubans-wet-foot-dry-foot-immigration-privilege/
The naval artillery practice range at Vieques was the only reason to keep PR. Cut it loose.
So what happens if the Cubans get to a “sanctuary city”?