One of the most prejudicial U.S. policies has finally come to a rightful end. The “wet-foot, dry-foot policy” that stems from the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that Congress passed during the height of the Cold War is now defunct.
The policy which was re-upped in 1995 as an amendment to the Cuban Act that allows the fast-tracking of Cubans to gain permanent residency once they made it to “dry land” or near the American shores, was considered by many as lopsided and discriminatory mostly against Haitians.
Haitians that made it to the shores of the U.S. were always quickly repatriated back to their homeland.
The new agreement between the United States and Cuba allows for the return of those (economic refugees) that short-circuit America’s immigration laws, by fleeing the Island Nation and entering the U.S. illegally.
President Obama has made the new law and effective immediately, January 12, 2017.
All Cubans will be welcomed to America, but in an orderly fashion… they have to join the legal line and be processed in the same fashion as the Haitians and other foreign nationals do.
By The Boats And By The Trucks, They’re Coming To America (Neil Diamond)
Staff Writer: Clinton Franklin
