‘Quite a pickle’

“I don’t see the United States greatly expanding visas, but something is going to happen,’’ said Bob Guild, vice president of Marazul Charters, which offers service between Miami and Havana and Camaguey. … That change? Analysts said that when it becomes easier for Cubans to leave the island, the number traveling to third countries such as Mexico or Canada, and then using them as a springboard to enter the United States could increase. … Under the Cuban Adjustment Act and the United States’ wet-foot, dry-foot policy, Cubans who present themselves at the border can be paroled into the United States and then become permanent residents a year later. … “Cuba is telling the United States to put its money where its mouth is. It has said it wants free travel, and the Cubans are saying, ‘Well, here it is,’ ’’ said University of Miami professor of immigration law David Abraham. “It could put the U.S. in quite a pickle,” he added.

– From The Miami Herald in article written by Mimi Whitfield