Q24N (ACN) The Cuban government reiterated on Tuesday its condemnation of the politicization of the migration issue by the United States and called for legal, safe and orderly emigration.
Cuban citizens are victims of the US Cuban Adjustment Act and particularly of the so-called Dry Feet-Wet Feet policy, which gives Cubans a favorable treatment as emigrants to the US, reads a statement by the Cuban Foreign Ministry.
The statement recalls that over the past few days, a complex situation was created following the arrival in Costa Rica of over one thousand Cuban citizens coming from other countries of the area with the aim of traveling to the U.S.
Those persons left Cuba legally to different Latin American nations, but in the attempt to reach US territory they have become the victims of human traffickers and criminal gangs, which unscrupulously profit from their control of the flow of these persons through South, Central America and Mexico.
The statement notes that the Cuban authorities have permanently kept in contact with the governments of the countries involved in the event in order to find a fast and appropriate solution, considering the wellbeing of the Cuban citizens.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry stresses that these citizens are the victims of the politicization of the migration issue by the US government, the Cuban Adjustment Act and in particularly by the dry feet-wet feet policy, which encourage irregular migration from Cuba to the U.S. in violation of the current migration accords.
The Cuban ministry also denounces that the US administration maintains the so-called Parole for Cuban Medical Professionals, adopted in 2006 by the Bush administration to encourage doctors and other medical personnel to abandon their missions in third countries and migrate to the U.S.
The statement reads that the Cuban citizens that have legally left the country and meet the requirements of the current migration law have the right to return to Cuba if they want to do so, and affirms the commitment of the Cuban government to a legal, safe and orderly migration.
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article should read “human smugglers” not “human traffickers” by legal definition…. Human smugglers are contracted to carry migrants over borders illegally…. Human traffickers are worse….coercion involved.
There is no longer a COLD WAR. The USA should stop this WET FOOT LAW. Cubans are coming here in droves to collect a s/s check, food stamps, housing aid, Medicaid, child relief and then going back to Cuba and living like a Millionaire. I live in Fla and know this for a fact and it is the talk of South Fla. on how to collect.
WE spend over 20 Billion on US Cuba Aid. They have it down pat how to get all the FREE BES. They have a list before they leave Cuba on where to go and what they can get for FREE. Within 5 days they have a check and signed up for s/s… That is where our RETIREMENT MONEY IS GOING. I SAY STOP THIS INSANITY… WRITE ABOUT THE THEIF THEY ARE BETRAYING ON THE USA TAX PAYERS. Then smuggling them selves back to Cuba to live. Also: many go to Cuba 30- 40 times a YEAR to take goods to sell, come back buy more go to Cuba and sell…. OH WHILE THEY ARE ON US WELFARE AND S/S. THEY DONT CLAIM IT OR PAY TAXES, BUT — USE the tax payers money to travel and do business….. WE NEED TO CLOSE OUR BORDERS… NOW…
There is no longer a COLD WAR. The USA should stop this WET FOOT LAW. Cubans are coming here in droves to collect a s/s check, food stamps, housing aid, Medicaid, child relief and then going back to Cuba and living like a Millionaire. I live in Fla and know this for a fact and it is the talk of South Fla. on how to collect.
WE spend over 20 Billion on US Cuba Aid. They have it down pat how to get all the FREE BES. They have a list before they leave Cuba on where to go and what they can get for FREE. Within 5 days they have a check and signed up for s/s… That is where our RETIREMENT MONEY IS GOING. I SAY STOP THIS INSANITY… WRITE ABOUT THE THEIF THEY ARE BETRAYING ON THE USA TAX PAYERS. Then smuggling them selves back to Cuba to live. Also: many go to Cuba 30- 40 times a YEAR to take goods to sell, come back buy more go to Cuba and sell…. OH WHILE THEY ARE ON US WELFARE AND S/S. THEY DONT CLAIM IT OR PAY TAXES, BUT — USE the tax payers money to travel and do business….. WE NEED TO CLOSE OUR BORDERS… NOW…