{"id":22402,"date":"2020-01-15T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/?p=22402"},"modified":"2020-01-17T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T21:48:00","slug":"cuban-refugee-lobby-protesting-asylum-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/15\/cuban-refugee-lobby-protesting-asylum-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Refugee Lobby Protesting Asylum Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An article in the January 16 Miami Herald calls attention to\nprotests by Cubans who are unhappy with what they see as new hurdles to getting\nasylum in the United States. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article239321473.html\">https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article239321473.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cubans are used to being treated as automatically approved\nasylum seekers, but that ended when the so-called \u201cwet-foot-dry-foot\u201d policy\nadopted by President Clinton was rescinded by President Obama. However the aura\nof special treatment of Cubans seeking entry is still perpetuated by the Cuban\nAdjustment Act (CAA) of 1966. Under that law, Cuban migrants arriving without\nvisas are automatically eligible to become legal residents after one year in\nthe country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the Trump administration issued the Migration Protection\nProtocols (MPP) which require asylum applicants at the U.S.-Mexican border to remain\nin Mexico until a hearing with an immigration judge is available, Cuban\narrivals have dropped steeply to 7,000 in fiscal year 2018 from over 41,500 two\nyears earlier. Nevertheless, the CAA still reflects an assumption that any\nCuban leaving the island is a political refugee fleeing oppression. That image\nis false, as demonstrated by the fact that currently most Cubans applicants are\nfound ineligible for asylum, and the law should be repealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in the January 16 Miami Herald calls attention to protests by Cubans who are unhappy with what they see as new hurdles to getting asylum in the United States. (https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/nation-world\/world\/americas\/cuba\/article239321473.html) Cubans are used to being treated as automatically approved asylum seekers, but that ended when the so-called \u201cwet-foot-dry-foot\u201d policy adopted by President Clinton<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2020\/01\/15\/cuban-refugee-lobby-protesting-asylum-restrictions\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":22403,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1450],"tags":[912,1713,798,799,971,6037],"yst_prominent_words":[3028,2530,7535,7536,5059,7534,2030,1942],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22404,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22402\/revisions\/22404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22402"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}