Did you know that any Cuban that gets to our shores is a legal immigrant? Thus when Marco Rubio, whose parents immigrated from Cuba, speaks you must remember that he speaks from a privileged group of immigrants? Thus his experience is much different from your ordinary Hispanic illegal immigrant and he is not a good spokesman for them.
The wet foot, dry foot policy is the name given to a consequence of the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 that says, essentially, that anyone who fled Cuba and got into the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later. After talks with the Cuban government, the Clinton administration came to an agreement with Cuba that it would stop admitting people found at sea. Since then, in what has become known as the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, a Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations (i.e., with "wet feet") would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore ("dry feet") gets a chance to remain in the United States, and later would qualify for expedited "legal permanent resident" status and, eventually, U.S. citizenship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy
Thus when people are opposed to granting a path to citizenship for Hispanics from, say, Mexico, they should be aware that immigrants from Cuba are given a path and have been for decades.
Thus when people are opposed to granting a path to citizenship for Hispanics from, say, Mexico, they should be aware that immigrants from Cuba are given a path and have been for decades.
This post is not intended to be about Marco Rubio but about the privileged status of Cuban immigrants. He does have some contradictions, however, in that he is for smaller government yet for the space program. For those who wish to read more about Marco Rubio, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio.
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