HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 14 (acn) The migration policy of the United States toward Cuba, forged in the crucible of the Cold War, is outdated, and the U.S. Congress should review the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA), says an editorial published on Friday by Los Angeles Times.
Like the commercial blockade and other sanctions of the United States against the island, this especial consideration has survived the alleged usefulness it had 50 years ago, and therefore
the U.S. government should not treat Cubans fleeing their country differently than it does all other immigrants, the Prensa Latina news agency reported.
The world has changed since that statute came into force in 1966, and the Capitol should examine it to end this special treatment, said the text entitled "Another outdated U.S. policy toward Cuba: immigration."
On January 31, in a similar article, The New York Times pointed out that the CAA is a Cold War relic and should be overturned, because it gives unique privileges to those who come from the island in an irregular way.
The Times says that this legislative document is obsolete, like the wet foot-dry foot policy established in 1995 by the then President William Clinton (1992-2001), through which Cubans arriving in U.S. territory are accepted, and those who are intercepted on the high seas, returned.
On December 17, 2014, the presidents of Cuba and the United States announced their decision of reestablishing diplomatic relations and initiating a process towards the normalization of bilateral bonds, broken by Washington over 50 years ago.
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