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Obama commutes sentence for political prisoner Oscar López Rivera
President Obama has commuted the sentence of Oscar López Rivera, a victory for the Puerto Rican independence activist who is considered to be one of the world’s longest-serving…
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Trump stumbles in calling out a hero
It is ironic but typical that President-elect Donald Trump would choose the eve of the national holiday honoring the great hero of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, to…
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There’s still the Adjustment Act…
A long interview held last summer with Miami immigration attorney Ira Kurzban offers insight into the confusion over the Cuban Adjustment Act and the wet-foot-dry-foot policy. He…
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Obama’s farewell to Cuba
It seems that President Obama has concluded his policy of reforms in relations with Cuba with the acceptance of a new migratory accord that eliminates the dry-foot-wet-foot policy, and…
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Fair decision or foul concession? The 2 Heralds differ.
As so often before, Miami's two Heralds are putting different spins on the news that President Obama has called an end to the wet-foot-dry-foot policy maintained by the United States…
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Ira Kurzban: ‘The wet foot dry foot policy … was not a positive policy’
The elimination of the policy may, or may not, have any effect on current practice. If it suggests that a person out in the coastal waters of the U.S. may claim asylum then it…
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Statement by President Obama on Cuban immigration policy
The Department of Homeland Security is ending the so-called "wet-foot/dry foot" policy, which was put in place more than twenty years ago and was designed for a different era, said…
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“Wet foot, dry foot” policy repealed, effective immediately
With one week left before he leaves office, President Barack Obama made one more move that adds to his Cuba legacy doing away with the “wet foot, dry foot” policy that allows Cubans who…
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Video and full transcript of President Obama’s farewell speech
"We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others; when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and blame the leaders we elect without examining…
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Obama’s farewell: Eloquence, tears, and a pledge to fight on
Tuesday, President Barack Obama said goodbye to the nation. Citizen Barack Obama made it clear to the American people he planned to fight on for the rest of his life for the causes that…
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