Johana Tablada, deputy director for the United States of the Cuban Foreign Ministry, openly asked in a declaration of the MINREX prior to the round of immigration talks held this Tuesday, the elimination of the Cuban Adjustment Law, as well as the “return” of all citizens who emigrated irregularly since January 2017, date on which the Wet Feet, Dry Feet Policy ended.
“That the US government complies with all elements of the agreements including the return to Cuba of all Cuban citizens who migrated irregularly since January 12, 2017, and of all those intercepted at sea,” said the deputy director for the United States of the island's foreign ministry.
MINREX also requested “the elimination of privileged treatment for Cubans who emigrate irregularly and the work to eliminate regulations and laws that, such as the Cuban Adjustment Law, encourage irregular emigration.”
The statement again blamed the United States by the immigration crisis - the worst in the history of Cuba - and did not recognize the internal problems of the regime that have led it to a serious economic and social crisis.
Immediately the well-known Immigration lawyer, Wilfred Allen, reacted to Tablada's request by describing it as "Joke of bad taste - Disagreeable joke".
“While Honduras, Nicaragua, Ecuador, El Salvador and other countries request TPS for their citizens in the United States, the Cuban government is trying to eliminate the way for its own citizens to have a status in this country,” the lawyer said in statements collected. by journalist Mario J. Pentón for Martí News.
“The Cuban Adjustment Act cannot be eliminated at the will of the president. It can only be repealed by the United States Congress and that will not happen until there are free elections in Cuba.”Allen added.
Regarding the "return" of all citizens who entered the United States illegally since January 2017, the lawyer also reacted with horror and questioned the viability of Cuba's request.
And according to Border Patrol data, more than 600,000 Cubans have crossed the southern border of the United States since the immigration agreements of January 2017 between the Cuban regime and the government of former President Barack Obama.
“What is Cuba going to do with all those people? How are you going to get along? Where are they going to live? Who is going to pay for that?”Allen questioned, and recalled that many of those Cubans that Tablada wants to be returned are today residents in the United States, thanks in many cases not to the Cuban Adjustment Act, but because they won their political asylum cases and because they have proven in court who were fleeing Cuba.
Finally, the lawyer indicated that he doubts that the Cuban government is willing to do without the remittances that Cubans living in the United States send to their families on the island.
"Mrs. Tablada is teasing us a little because she well knows the number of millions that enter Cuba in remittances from the United States [...] Do you really believe that Cuba can sustain itself without those remittances," he concluded. the lawyer, who specified that many of those who have entered since 2017 left behind their children, parents or their partners, whom they have continued to support since then.
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