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Fox News Latino - Fearing end of 'wet foot, dry foot policy,' Cubans fleeing to U.S. in record numbers

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Date: April 21, 2016
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Foreign Affairs Immigration

By Unknown

While more than 50 years of enmity between the United States and Cuba is slowly vanishing, the renewed relationship is raising concerns among some on the communist island nation that the U.S. could also erase a unique immigration policy that favors Cubans.

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Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, said "there's just something unfair" about the special treatment of Cubans.

Cuellar and Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, have introduced legislation to end the preferential treatment. Cuellar said he doesn't expect the bill to pass ahead of the presidential election in November, but said the issue needs to be addressed.

"I don't want to take anything from Cubans, but it's a matter of a sense of fair play and how we treat each other," Cuellar said.

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