President Obama’s Change to Cuban Migration Policy, Explained

The American Immigration Council explains the basics surrounding President Obama’s announcement of a change in the “foot-wet, foot-dry” policy directed toward Cuban migrants.

Francis Robles for the New Yorks Times explains how Cuba agreed to accept up to 500 Cubans who came to the United States in the Mariel boatlift of 1980:  “The flip side of the deal got far less attention, but it effectively closed one chapter in the tortured relationship between the two countries: Cuba agreed to take back up to 500 criminal Mariel refugees.”

KJ

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