Cuba blames US for instigating surge of migrants from island
Source: AP
Cuban officials blamed the United States late Tuesday for instigating a surge in the number of Cuban migrants attempting to reach the U.S. through Central America amid ongoing efforts to normalize relations between the former Cold War foes.
In a statement aired on the government's nightly broadcast, Cuba's Ministry of Foreign Relations said U.S. policy allowing nearly all Cuban migrants who reach U.S. soil to stay contradicts ongoing efforts to renew relations between the countries.
"This policy encourages illegal emigration from Cuba to the United States and constitutes a violation of the letter and spirit of the migration accords," the statement read.
The statement marked Cuba's first official response to the swell of migrants fleeing the island since Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced plans to restore diplomatic ties nearly one year ago.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/costa-rica-proposes-humanitarian-corridor-cuban-migrants-204305626.html
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The CIA is to blame! 
(you remember how the "rumor" that the revolution would send Cuban children to Russia to be indoctrinated had Cuban wealthy parents putting their children and flying them immediately to the U.S. to live with relatives, or simply be the wards of the Church until they could be adopted, the wave of immigrant children (NOT rejected, of course!) known as the Peter Pan children, as they all flew to the US) that since there's a foreseeable end to the hostility toward Cuba, there will be a cancelation of the Cuban Adjustment Act, and no Cuban will be getting instant legal status (no hassle with immigration services), green card, social security, food stamps, US taxpayer-funded Section 8 HOUSING, free medical treatment, educational financing, etc.
Can you imagine how crowded this country would be if this smorgasbord of benefits were available instantly to the people from countries where they are in real danger for their lives, like Central America, Mexico, Haiti, etc.? We would be standing in one huge crowd, cheek to cheek, from coast to coast.
The Cuban exception has been the political use the US Gov't could make by paying people to leave Cuba, and offering them the same benefits they had back at home!
So now, the Republican Congresspeeps in Florida DON'T want a continuation of this Adjustment Act as sooner or later, probably sooner, this Adjustment Act is going to blow up in their faces when the US public learns how much we've been unknowingly shoveling out to these guys for political reasons.
As mentioned by a great DU'er in another thread, the newer Cuban immigrants who stay are far more likely to be Democrats, anyway.
Ros-Lehtinen adjusts stance on Cuban Adjustment Act
Updated 11:16 am, Saturday, October 31, 2015
MIAMI (AP) — The longest-serving Cuban-American in Congress may be easing her support for the Cuban Adjustment Act.
Miami Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has long defended the act, which generally shields Cubans from deportation if they reach U.S. shores and fast-tracks the process for permanent residency. But in a segment taped for "Facing South Florida with Jim DeFede" on Sunday, Ros-Lehtinen said a Sun Sentinel investigation alerted her to welfare abuses by recent Cuban migrants collecting U.S. assistance and returning to Cuba.
According to the newspaper (http://bit.ly/1SeAJvH), the congresswoman told DeFede that while she doesn't favor completely ending the act, she does think Cubans exploiting it "should not have the privilege."
She said she's leaving reforms to another Florida Republican, Carlos Curbelo, who is working on legislation to modify the act by sanctioning Cubans who return to Cuba before becoming U.S. citizens.
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Ros-Lehtinen-adjusts-stance-on-Cuban-Adjustment-6602698.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141247806
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The change was the opening of embassies.
The US sanctions remain, and legal American travel is limited to 12 categories that DO NOT include tourism.
The only exception is for Cuban migrants who can return for whatever reason they like, and that has pretty much always been the case.
Love the cronyism ad hominem. Nice touch.
You link has no data relating to your doggerel.
Have a nice day. 
Cheers.
Maybe they all represent, somehow, the tiny group some people claim would be allowed to have dual citizenships. Just a coincidence, no doubt. Maybe they're all double agents.
My friends & family all have fake passports. They all got them with their crony connections. Strange... they use them not just for travel to the US, but elsewhere in the Americas too. I'll have to tell them they are not valid because "some people" say so.
Maybe you just dreamed it for year after year after year. That could happen.
Maybe you've just dreamed the times you've lived and worked in Cuba, yourself, dreamed it all up. So sad.