‘La Joven Cuba’ Blog Questions Official Position on the Cuban Adjustment Act

'La Joven Cuba' Blog Questions Official Position on the Cuban Adjustment
Act / 14ymedio
Posted on November 26, 2015

"Cubans who reach the United States without the Adjustment act will have
to submit to the exploitation that other illegal immigrants are
subjected to," says the blog: La Joven Cuba

14ymedio, Havana, 25 November 2015 – In an unusual gesture of criticism
toward an official position, the blog "La Joven Cuba" (Young Cuba)
published a post on Tuesday that challenges the Cuban government's
approach to the Cuban Adjustment Act.

The site, run by graduates of the University of Matanzas, stresses "the
need to of more than a few fellow countrymen to emigrate," and defends
the thesis that Cubans who want to reside in another country will do
so regardless of whether conditions are better or worse. The article,
signed by Roberto G. Peralo and titled "Eliminate the Cuban Adjustment
Act and What," uses an example close to him as an illustration.

"A woman friend who is a doctor was preparing to emigrate to Ecuador.
She had a job lined up at a clinic. When she learned that the government
of Ecuador wouldn't recognize her license to practice her profession,
she told me, 'I'm going even if I have to clean the hospital floor for
the rest of my life.'"

The author defends the Cuban government's asking for the elimination of
the law which also provides an advantage for Cubans over other
immigrants and believes that the United States will end up repealing it.
However, he believes that this will not improve things because Cubans
will continue leaving and will do it in even worse circumstances.

"Cubans who reach the United States without the Adjustment Act will have
to submit to the exploitation that other illegal immigrants are
subjected to. They will not receive government benefits and will have to
take the worst jobs at the most miserable wages. In the best of cases
they will have to renounce returning to Cuba, even to visit, to be able
to support the thesis that they are "politically persecuted," so that
they can receive government benefits.

The Joven Cuba website, which has also suffered censorship within the
University of Matanzas, is a part of the sector relatively critical of
the government, although from a "revolutionary" position that leads to
censoring dissent and opposing a market economy.

In the official discourse the Cuban Adjustment Act is the target of the
worse criticisms and is held responsible for the exodus of Cubans to the
United States. On national television the presenters call it "The
Assassin Law" and hold it entirely responsible for the current migratory
crisis provoked by the arrival of more than 2,000 Cubans at the border
between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

This Wednesday, the newspaper Granma published a note on the meeting of
the foreign ministers of the member countries of the Central American
Integration System – Cuba, Ecuador, Colombia and Mexico – to seek a
solution to the drama of the Cuban migrants. As the official organ of
the Cuban Communist Party, Granma noted the unanimous rejection of "the
Cuban Adjustment Act and other regulations related to the wet foot-dry
foot policy and the Parole Program for Cuban Healthcare Professionals,
which stimulates illegal immigration to the United States."

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