Biden's humanitarian parole for Cubans, Venezuelans is at risk in negotiations with GOP

[Judi Lynn]

(Written with interests of the US right in the forefront, as always in US corporate articles. . . . )

WLRN 91.3 FM | By Associated Press
Published January 19, 2024 at 10:53 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is closing in on a Senate deal on border security and Ukraine funding as the White House tries to resolve one of the last major sticking points: whether to preserve the president's authority to allow migrants into the U.S. for special cases during emergencies or global unrest.

Republicans deride the authority, known as humanitarian parole, as a Biden administration end run around Congress that allows into the U.S. large numbers of migrants who further tax an already overextended immigration system.

But that power to allow in certain immigrants at certain times is not new or particularly novel. It has been used across political lines for decades to admit people from Hungary in the 1950s, Vietnam in the 1970s and Iraqi Kurds over the 1990s. For recipients, it can be a lifeline.

"The parole gave me this opportunity, it has made me realize my dreams, my life," said Emilia Ferrer Triay, who came from Cuba in 1980 as a young girl. "Everything changed from the first day I arrived, I saw that I had a future ... that there were no restrictions."

More:
https://www.wlrn.org/immigration/2024-01-19/bidens-humanitarian-parole-for-cubans-venezuelans-is-at-risk-in-negotiations-with-gop

[Marcus IM]

1. Yeah. Great idea to push for more future GOP voters.

Just watch the Fla Dems pander for votes from a constituency that will never vote for Democrats.

[Judi Lynn]

2. It's infuriating watching it happen, over and over. Maybe they are afraid to become targeted if they don't suck up.

We do know the Cuban hard-right reactionaries used true, serious violence against moderate Cubans as soon as they started coming to the US right after the revolution by the Cuban population in 1960 onward.

I have always hated Senator Robert Menendez for his stand against the people of Cuba while pretending to be a Democrat. What a fraud and dirtbag.

I also abhor Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for backing Republican Congress critters from Florida in supporting the embargo and travel ban, etc. Shameful.

Can't imagine how long it's going to take Cuban-Americans to get over the choice made by the real CubanTh people in seeking to be independent from outside governments, from being owned by the corporations and military of the US. They have sought their own government since the days of slavery in Cuba. It's time the US backs off, and treats them with the respect they certainly deserve. Anything short of that is tyrannical, and childish.

[Marcus IM]

3. Right on!

Interesting to watch the trans-generational battle waged from US shores. Cuban "exile" offspring born after 1959 supporting starving their ancestral homeland and a population mostly born after 1959 - propaganda based, all for US political aggrandizement still functioning on Cold War mindset.