Wet Foot Dry Foot

Lighthouse Cuban Rafters In Legal Limbo After Six Months At Guantánamo Navy Base

... employment opportunities at NSGB.”. It is important to note that there are a limited number of employment opportunities at NSGB. State Dept. spokesperson. Apart from the lack of work, the Cuban migrants said U. S. personnel on the base have provided excellent care and they receive generous financial aid and educational opportunities. “They take us out on excursions and we have no complaints about the sanitary conditions. We have health coverage and receive $107 in financial aid on Sundays to buy our food. In addition, we are given 30 minutes on the phone to talk with our family,” the migrant said. Ramon Saul Sánchez, leader of the Democracy Movement, which that filed legal appeals for the rafters, said: “We lost our first lawsuit for the lighthouse to be considered a U. S. territory and the rafters as dry feet. At the moment, we are in the process of appeals.”. According to the activist, the group of lawyers working on the pro bono case, is still hopeful that the ...

Havana Hails End Of 'wet Foot, Dry Foot' Policy

... ordinary citizens mourned the end of an easy pathway to a new life in the United States. Average Cubans and opponents of the island's communist leaders said they expected pressure for reform to increase with the elimination of a mechanism that siphoned off the island's most dissatisfied citizens and turned them into sources of remittances supporting relatives who remained on the island. Most popular Nation stories. Report: Donald Trump dossier author ID'd. The repeal of the "wet foot, dry foot" policy went into effect immediately after a Thursday afternoon announcement. It followed months of negotiations focused in part on getting Cuba to agree to take back people who had arrived in the U. S. Cubans fearful of an imminent end to a special immigration status bestowed during the Cold War had been flocking to the United States since the Dec. ...

Obama Beendet Ausnahmeregelung Für Flüchtlinge Aus Kuba

... beschwert. Wenn Donald Trump in der kommenden Woche das Amt von Obama übernimmt, könnte er die Entscheidung seines Vorgängers wieder zurücknehmen. Mehrfach hatte der künftige Präsident die Annäherung Obamas an Kuba kritisiert. Auf der anderen Seite dürfte die Entscheidung Trump entgegenkommen, schließlich verfolgt er eine harte Politik gegen Migranten. Die "Wet foot, dry foot"-Richtlinie wurde 1995 von Bill Clinton eingeführt. Zuvor hatten die USA seit den Sechzigerjahren praktische alle kubanischen Flüchtlinge aufgenommen. Kubaner, die auf offenem Meer auf dem Weg in die USA aufgegriffen worden waren, durften nach einem Jahr eine gültige Aufenthaltsgenehmigung bekommen. Die Vereinigten Staaten waren nicht gewillt, Menschen zurück in das kommunistische Kuba zu schicken, und die Regierung des damaligen Präsidenten Fidel Castro lehnte die Rückführung generell ab. In der Vergangenheit hatte ...

Presstv-obama Ends Visa-free Residency For Cubans

... who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify for humanitarian relief will be subject to removal, consistent with US law and enforcement priorities," Obama said in his statement. “By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries,” the president added. The policy shift came with only days left in Obama’s presidency and after he had worked for years to normalize relations with Cuba. However, the improved ties also prompted a surge of immigration from the island, with many hoping to become legal US residents under the unique “wet foot, dry foot” policy. Cuban migrants, who reached Panama in September 2016 in their attempt to get to the United States, play in a shelter in Panama City on January 12, 2017. (Photo by AFP). Obama said the Cuban government had agreed to accept the return of Cuban nationals who have been ordered to leave the US. In a ...

These Were The Last Cubans To Enter The U.s. As Wet Foot, Dry Foot Policy Ended

... teacher from Puerto Padre, was let in because he’d submitted his paperwork before the decision was final. He made it into the U. S. at 7 p.m. and was planning to catch a ride to Kansas City. “Thank God I was able to get in,” he said. “I was the last one.”. President Barack Obama announced Thursday afternoon that he was ending the so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy that allowed Cubans to remain in the United States simply by touching American soil. The decision was effective immediately. The decision was felt especially hard in this city on the border with Mexico, where dozens of Cubans have been arriving daily, racing to enter the United States worried that this exact moment would arrive. Cubans who’d made it to a safe house in this city Thursday morning said they believed dozens were in line to enter when the policy ended. Tens of thousands of Cubans have crossed here in the past year, and their numbers had been growing every week. According to statistics from Customs and Border Protection, 34,600 Cubans entered Texas in fiscal year 2016 through the Laredo sector, which stretches from Del Rio to Brownsville. ...

Obama Ends Visa-free Path For Cubans Who Make It To Us Soil

... "It could impose a more normal dynamic on emigration, so that not so many people die at sea, but it could also take an escape valve away from the government, which was getting hard currency from the emigrants.". Anti-Castro Cubans in Miami were mixed in their responses, with some expressing anger at Obama for what they called another betrayal of ordinary Cubans. Others said they thought the measure would increase pressure for change in Cuba. "People who can't leave, they could create internal problems for the regime," said Jorge Gutierrez, an 80-year-old veteran of the Bay of Pigs invasion. But he added, "From the humanitarian point of view, it's taking away the possibility of a better future from the people who are struggling in Cuba.". Rep. Illeana Ros-Lehtinen, a Florida Republican who emigrated from Cuba as a child, decried the elimination of the medical parole programs, calling it a "foolhardy concession to a regime that sends its doctors to foreign nations in a modern-day indentured servitude.". Associated Press writers Matthew Lee and Kevin Freking in Washington, Gisela Salomon and Michael Weissenstein in Miami, Bill ...

Obama Scrapping ‘wet Foot, Dry Foot’ Policy For Cubans

... allowed Cuban doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to seek parole in the U. S. while on assignments abroad. The president said those doctors can still apply for asylum at U. S. embassies around the world. ‘By providing preferential treatment to Cuban medical personnel, the medical parole program. risks harming the Cuban people,’ Obama said. People already in the United States and in the pipeline under both ‘wet foot, dry foot’ and the medical parole program will be able to continue the process toward getting legal status. Reaction to the announcement in Havana was muted Thursday afternoon. ‘This was bound to happen at some point,’ said taxi driver Guillermo Britos, 35. ‘It could impose a more normal dynamic on emigration, so that not so many people die at sea, but it could also take an escape valve away from the government, which was ...

The Midnight Ride Of Obamacare Repeal

... Castro — just isn't true of the current wave of immigrants, who are economic migrants perfectly happy to return to Cuba when they can. [ The Atlantic / Anya Landau French ]. That's put anti-Castro Cuban Americans in the strange position of opposing an ostensibly anti-Castro policy, because it's helping people who weren't anti-Castro enough. [ Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ]. Meanwhile, thousands of Cubans are avoiding the risk of getting caught with "wet feet" (off US soil) by the Coast Guard by traveling through Central America instead — which is not the point of the policy. [ Deutsche Welle ]. Even supporters of a more generous immigration policy resented the Cuban loophole, since Cuban immigrants weren't any different from other immigrants in any other respect, but got to stay legally while other immigrants got deported. [ NYT / Ann Louise Bardach ]. The only reason to reinstate "wet foot, dry foot," in other words, would be to troll the Cuban government, which really didn't like it. ...