Cuba - More political prison than paradise

Cuba: More political prison than paradise
Friday, July 10, 2015 | Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com)

A pro-border enforcement organization says normalizing diplomatic
relations with Cuba should mean normalizing immigration policies, too.

For more than half a century the United States has maintained policies
that treat Cuban migrants different from citizens of every other country
in the world.

The 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act allows for Cuban nationals who set foot on
American soil to remain and eventually become permanent legal immigrants.

Cuba is also the only country in the world guaranteed a minimum number
of immigration visas to the U.S. each year while being among a handful
of rogue nations that refuses to allow repatriation of their own
citizens who have been convicted of crimes in the U.S.

Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration
Reform, or FAIR, says with the re-establishment of full diplomatic
relations with Cuba, those outdated immigration policies with that
nation must end.

"In effect it's been counterproductive in changing the regime there,"
Mehlman complains. "The Lech Walesa of Cuba is probably sitting in Miami
rather than in Havana, and so the Castros have been in power for more
than half a century."

Walesa, 71, was a human-rights activist in Poland under Soviet communism.

Just because the United States has established diplomatic relations with
Cuba doesn't mean Cuba is paradise, Mehlman points out, calling the
communist country a "repressive regime."

"So if we're going to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba, we ought
to treat Cuban migrants the same as we treat anybody else," the
immigration expert argues.

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