The U.S. migration policy toward Cuba, forged in the Cold War, is obsolete and the U.S. Congress should review the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA), Los Angeles Times reported.
In addition to the U.S. commercial blockade and other sanctions against the island, this especial consideration has survived the alleged utility it had 50 years ago, and therefore Cuban immigrants should be treated without differentiate them from those of other latitudes, the daily concludes.
The world has changed since that statute entered into force in 1966, and the Capitol should examine it to end this special treatment, said the text entitled "Another obsolete U.S. policy towards Cuba: immigration."
In a similar article, The New York Times stated on January 31 that the CAA is a relic of the Cold War and should be canceled, because it grants unique privileges to those who come irregularly from the island.
The Times says that legislative bill is obsolete, as well as the wet-foot, dry-foot policy, established in 1995 by the then President William Clinton (1992-2001), through which the Cubans arriving in U.S. territory are accepted and return those who are intercepted at sea.
The presidents of Cuba and the United States announced on December 17, 2014 the decision to restore diplomatic relations and initiate a process towards normalizing bilateral ties, broken by Washington for more than 50 years.