16 Business View - August 2015
Opening
Lines
“Normalizing” Diplomatic Relations
with Cuba Should Mean “Normalizing”
Immigration Policy Too, Says FAIR
“If we are treating Cuba like virtually every
other nation on earth in terms of trade, cultural
exchanges and diplomacy, then we should also
treat Cuban citizens like everyone else when it
comes to immigration to the United States.” -
Dan Stein, president of FAIR
Last week’s announcement that the United States
is reestablishing diplomatic relations with Cuba
should also trigger a repeal of our outdated immi-
gration policies that afford special immigration privi-
leges to Cuban nationals, says the Federation for
American Immigration Reform (FAIR).
For more than half a century, the U.S. has main-
tained policies that treat Cuban migrants differently
from citizens of every other nation on earth. “With
the reestablishment of full diplomatic relations with
