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THECUBANTRIANGLE: “Don’t travel, don’t vote, and if you never come that’s fine too”, por Phil Peters

It’s hard to find a starker sign of the divide in the Cuban American community than a bill introduced recently by Rep. David Rivera. It’s el exilio vs. the immigrants, and it’s getting ugly.
It goes beyond recent efforts by him and Rep. Diaz-Balart to limit Cuban American travel to once every three years.
Rep. Rivera wants to delay the process whereby Cuban migrants become legal permanent residents. Under his bill (H.R. 2771) they would be eligible to apply for “green card” status five years after arriving in the United States, as opposed to the one-year wait that is in effect today.

All in all, it’s an effective if indirect scheme to block travel by recent immigrants, which most of us regard as none of anyone’s business, much less the government’s…

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