Marco Rubio Proposes Cuban-American Welfare Crackdown, Opposes Entrance Of 8,000 Cubanos From Costa
Source: Latin Times
Marco Rubio Proposes Cuban-American Welfare Crackdown, Opposes Entrance Of 8,000 Cubanos From Costa Rica
By Cedar Attanasio | Jan 08 2016, 04:10PM EST
Around one million Cuban immigrants came to America thanks to the open-door border policy opened by the 1966 with Cuban Adjustment Act. Almost 50 years later, America’s first viable Cuban-American presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is considering closing that door. In a press conference at the American Society of News Editors this week, Rubio said that he would “re-examine” the so-called “wet foot, dry foot” policy that gives Cuban migrants a blank check on asylum claims, green cards, and federal benefits.
"I don't criticize anyone who wants to go visit their mom or dad or their dying brother or sister in Cuba," Rubio told reporters. "But I am telling you it gets very difficult to justify someone's status as an exile and refugee when a year and a half after they get here they are flying back to that country over and over again."
Rubio has voiced concern over the Cuban Adjustment Act before, but it is the first time that he’s elevated the issue during his presidential campaign. A son of Cuban immigrants (who were not asylum-seekers), Rubio has walked a delicate line throughout his campaign. On one hand, he holds up his story as a the epitome of the American Dream, while promoting policies that would snuff out the aspirations of many migrants.
The senator also announced that he will introduce a bill in the Senate next week that would curb federal assistance to Cuban migrants admitted under the act such as food stamps and Medicaid, according to the Miami Herald. "We have people living in Cuba off Social Security benefits. They never worked here," Rubio said at a campaign stop in Bedford, New Hampshire. "This is an outrageous abuse, and I have a law that we are going to introduce this week that shuts down this issue. It's wrong."
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It's more commonly known as the "Wet Foot, Dry Foot Policy," and it crowns every Cuban immigrant who can make it to US soil without being caught in the ocean on the way to this country with the privilege of being instantly accepted, unlike any other nationality. With a year and a day to wait, he/she can then become a legal resident. As soon as he/she touches shore without being intercepted, he/she can instantly get Social Security, can get food stamps, can get medical treatment, can get US taxpayer-funded Section 8 Housing, can get financial assistance for education, etc., etc., ETC.
Try to know a little about the subject first before offering your opinion on it.
US American citizens who have looked into it have been told, "No," they CANNOT get their own Social Security Checks should they desire to retire to Cuba after they turn 65.
It appears you haven't read any of the articles which have been written on the subject that Cuban immigrants have been swarming the US in the last year, since the US has made overtures to a more sane relationship with Cuba, coming here as fast as they can because they have heard the rumors that as relations become warmer, the US will drop the Cuban Adjustment Act, which has always been in place to lure Cubans, particularly young, working age Cubans to this country, and supplying them with things they got back home from their own government. They want to get here before the offer is withdrawn.
It has always been a political carrot to hold out to Cuban citizens, in order to play them as pawns in the political war against the Cubans who rebelled against the US-supported treacherous, murderous, death-squad employing, bloody, Mafia-connected dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
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