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Time to Revise America's Cuban Immigration Policy

| January 22, 2015

As a high-level U.S. delegation travels to Havana for talks on migration today, the United States must revisit its outdated policies regarding migrants from Cuba. U.S. Coast Guard interceptions of Cuban migrants have risen by 117 percent since the two countries announced that they would normalize relations last month. The United States must revise its policies to both discourage migration and comply with international human-rights law. To do otherwise would be both a human-rights travesty and tremendous hypocrisy by a nation that wants Cuba to improve its commitment to human rights....

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For more information on this publication: Belfer Communications Office
For Academic Citation: Goldenziel, Jill.“Time to Revise America's Cuban Immigration Policy.” The National Interest, January 22, 2015.

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