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 News from Around the Americas | November 2006 
Cuba Accuses US for Adjustment Act and Blockade
 Prensa Latina
Havana - Cuba ratified Thursday charges brought against US of politicizing migratory matters and encouraging illegal migration from the island as a way to "fabricate" a bilateral crisis and justify a military confrontation.
The Attorney General's Office and the Immigration Direction authorities denounced that hostility from consecutive US governments against the Cuban revolution acts as an incentive for the illegal traffic of persons.
The Cuban Adjustment Act has specifically had a high significance on Cuban migration flow increase, specially towards the US, added to the criminal and genocidal "economic blockade," local sources reported.
This regulation described here as "Murder Act" makes Cuban immigrants have a singularity over those from other countries, confirmed to Prensa Latina experts attending a penal science international meeting.
They added the Cuban Adjustment Act makes it easier to obtain residency, US citizenship, job opportunities and economic subventions, which encourages a wave of illegal immigrants.
With this objective, Washington significatively reduced the number of visas previously given, as agreed in a bilateral migratory accord in 1994.
High-ranking officials from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) indicated to Prensa Latina that over the last months person traffickers penetration into our territory increased.
People traffickers do not use safe vessels, in which they transport a great quantity of people, including women and children subject to a crossing occasionally with fatal ends.
White House implements "dry foot-wet foot policy," which consists in admitting in the US those that make it to US soil, and repatriate those that are intercepted at sea. |
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