Biden should not bow to Cuba’s political blackmail
Negotiating with a dictatorship that generates a migration crisis sends the wrong signal
By Editorial Board - The Washington Times - Sunday, April 24, 2022
OPINION:
The Biden administration met with Cuban regime officials last week Thursday with the hope of striking a deal that would enable the U.S. to repatriate a record number of migrants who emigrated from the island.
The meeting comes after more than a year of pressure from far-left progressives to engage with the regime and lift Trump-era sanctions, and at a time when the Biden administration is wrestling with a tsunami of immigrants crossing the southern border.
The purported need for the meeting stems from the fact that unlike most other governments, Cuba has not accepted U.S. deportation flights for the past six months. This, despite the fact 40,000 Cubans are currently saddled with court-ordered deportation orders. A State Dept. spokesperson told Reuters that “Cubans currently occupy the second-largest group arriving at the southwest border.”
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