Wet Foot Dry Foot

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

... visit happened in December. “The migrants are allowed to apply for jobs on the base and can participate in recreational and social activities,” the spokesperson said. “They also have access to educational opportunities and means of communication with friends and family in their home countries and elsewhere. It is important to note that there are a limited number of 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 ...

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

... 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. 17, 2014 announcement that the U. S. and Cuba would re-establish diplomatic relations and move toward normalization. About 100,000 left for the United States after the declaration of detente, many flooding overland through South and Central America and Mexico in an exodus that irritated U. S. allies and other immigrant groups and spawned bitter complaints from the Cuban ...

Obama Beendet Ausnahmeregelung Für Flüchtlinge Aus Kuba

... Diejenigen, die es schafften, genossen bislang Immigrationsprivilegien. Diese hat Barack Obama nun zurückgenommen. Kubanische Migranten und US-Küstenwache vor Key West (Archivbild). Freitag, 13.01.2017   01:38 Uhr. Der scheidende US-Präsident Barack Obama hat eine jahrzehntelange Immigrationsrichtlinie zurückgenommen, durch die kubanische Bootsflüchtlinge leichter eine Aufenthaltsgenehmigung erhalten als Einwanderer aus anderen Ländern. Ab sofort würden Kubaner, die illegal einreisten und nicht unter humanitären Schutz fielen, zurückgeschickt, teilte Obama mit. "Damit behandeln wir Migranten aus Kuba genauso wie Migranten aus anderen Ländern.". Nach der sogenannten Wet-foot-dry-foot-Regelung durften Bootsflüchtlinge, die trockenen Fußes US-Territorium betraten, in den Vereinigten Staaten bleiben. Zudem wurde ihnen der Weg zur Staatsbürgerschaft erleichtert. Wurden die ohne Visum einreisenden Migranten hingegen auf dem Wasser aufgegriffen, wurden sie von den US-Behörden nach Kuba oder in Drittländer ...

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

... 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 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 ...

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

... p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who make it to US soil. View Larger. FILE - In this March 22, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Grand Theater of Havana, Cuba. President Barack Obama is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban national who makes it to U. S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, a senior administration official said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File). View Larger. A man runs past a Cuban flag near the United States embassy, behind right, in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban who makes it to U. S. soil to stay and become a legal resident. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa). View Larger. Fishermen and tourists are sprayed by a wave breaking over the Malecon seawall in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, where the Fort Morro lighthouse stands in the background. President Barack Obama announced Thursday he is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban ...

Presstv-obama Ends Visa-free Residency For Cubans

... 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 statement on state television, the Cuban government hailed the agreement as "an important step in advancing relations" between the two countries which "aims to guarantee normal, safe and ordered migration.". Incoming President Donald Trump could undo the change after taking office next week. He has criticized Obama's moves to improve relations with Cuba. The Obama administration and the Cuban government held 18 months of secret talks that led to a joint announcement on December 17, 2014, that the two long-time ...

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

... the border where more than a dozen Cubans who entered the country Thursday morning were waiting for a ride to Miami, few thought it would happen before President-elect Donald Trump took office. Alvaro Moreno, 29, who arrived just hours earlier, said he couldn’t believe Obama was the one who would end the policy that since the era of President Bill Clinton had allowed any Cuban who touched ground in the United States to remain in the country for a year, at which time they would become eligible under the Cuban Adjustment Act to seek permanent residency. “I can’t believe it. I don’t have any words. I don’t know what to say,” Moreno said. “No, I do. I’m hurt. I got saved by a hair. A hair.”. When Yorjany Cruces, 30, learned that he, his wife and two children had entered just hours before the policy had ended, he grabbed his phone to check for a text from friends who’d been waiting at the border to cross with his two daughters. “This is why I told my wife we had to go now,” Cruces said, looking at his wife. Just outside the border station, across the Rio Grande river, Marcos called frightened friends in ...

The Midnight Ride Of Obamacare Repeal

... by repealing the ACA. But passing this resolution set up Senate Republicans to avoid a filibuster when they do vote on repeal itself — meaning they can pass it with 50 votes. [ Vox / Sarah Kliff ]. You will notice this is just the "repeal" part of "repeal and replace." Republicans have shown a renewed interest in coming up with the "replace" part — they just haven't settled on a single plan yet. [ Vox / Sarah Kliff ]. Politically, the GOP doesn't have much wiggle room. The resolution passed 51-48 — with Republican Rand Paul (R-KY) joining Democrats against the resolution, which he sees as fiscally irresponsible. [ Lexington Herald-Leader ]. Democrats, meanwhile, are leaning in. Even Bernie Sanders, who hasn't traditionally identified as a Democrat in the Senate, is learning to love the party. [ Vox / Jeff Stein ]. While ...