2023-11-18 07:15:13
According to the portal Cuban Diarythe Cuban Adjustment Law (Cuban Adjustment Act, CAA), enacted in 1966 as a special way for cuban refugees achieve permanent residency in the United States, is not under any question, said lawyer Willy Allen. “Thanks to the brilliant work of Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart and of the former congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinenthe Cuban Adjustment Law is tied to the act of democracy” in Cuba, explained the lawyer to the informative magazine Martí Noticias AM.
“This means that for this law to be eliminated, the president of the USA would have to announce Congress that Cuba Has made free, democratic and transparent elections. The day the president of this country makes that announcement, the Cuban Adjustment Lawwhich I don’t think will happen in 2023,” added the expert.
He Republican Senator Marco Rubio he questioned recently at Cubans with refugee status in the US who travel to Cuba repeatedly, raising a wave of worry and controversy on social networks. The legislator made the statements during a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committeefollowing the request for additional funds by the Biden Administration to quickly process migrants who enter the country illegally.
Addressing the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, The senator presented him with the case of Cubans who acquire the refugee status in the US and a year later They are on vacation in Cuba.
“If you are fleeing persecution, how can it be that a year later you are spending summers in Cuba? How can it be that less than a year later you are traveling, say, from six to eight times a year to Cuba? I have never heard of people fleeing persecution and returning to one place repeatedly. There’s a problem here, isn’t there?” he said. Rubio the Mayor.
Allen highlighted that now “the question” is whether “with the request for political asylum by Cubans and its subsequent legalization, they can travel to Cuba.” “The answer is that anyone traveling to their home country with his American residence can have an experience upon arrival in the United States,” explained the lawyer and pointed out that, in cases like this, it is even possible to return them to the Immigration Court to see if asylum granted was frivolous or was a lie.
“He cuban government is the one who has prohibited and has taken the pleasure of denying entry to tens of thousands of Cubans that they possess asylum or residence in the USA and different countries around the world,” Allen recalled.
He also made reference to the deportation agreements that exist between USA and Cuba and that the Cuban Government has limited the number of people it receives. “In the Miami streets Thousands of people walk today, with some insecurity, because they have an I220 B documentwhich prevents them from becoming legal, they even have a work permit, but they are unable to obtain a residence because they have a deportation order,” Allen said, adding that many of these Cubans are waiting for the cuban government accept them, protected by the rimmigration solution aforementioned.
Any Cuban who has arrived in the United States since 2017 that has owned a word or document I220 A He is not in danger of being deported, said the lawyer.
“Besides, the Cubans that have obtained your residency with I220 A or CU6they are not in any danger of travel to cuba and return them to question them at any US airport,” the lawyer concluded.
This week there are some 100 people returned to Cuba after their attempt at irregular emigration, according to information offered by the Cuban and American authorities. A total of 43 Cubans (25 men and 18 women) were returned to the country this Wednesday due to authorities of Mexico, the Ministry of the Interior said on the social network (MININT) of the Isla.
With this group they add 5,103 irregular migrants returned in 2023 from different nations in the region, added the MININT. For example, since last October 14, some 286 Cubans would have been returned to Cuba from Mexico by air.
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