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Cuba
Criticizes Immigration Policy Havana, Cuba -- Cuba again blasted the United States for its immigration policy calling it “murderous'' and said American officials have ignored its requests for information about cases of illegal immigration after two brothers recently died off the Florida coast. In an editorial in the Communist Party daily Granma, Cuban officials said the deaths were ``another sinister and gloomy story of the fruits of the murderous Cuban Adjustment Act and the increasingly unbearable criminal policies of the US government toward Cuba.'' The Cuban Adjustment Act, passed by Congress in 1966, allows any Cuban who reaches American soil to apply for US residency after one year. The bodies of Juan Carlos Rodriguez Bueno, 23, and his brother Alex Rodriguez Bueno, age 20, were found off the Florida coast last week. Cuban officials suspect that the brothers were part of a larger group of people who had hired alien smugglers to take them to the United States. It has asked the US government for more information about such cases. Cuban officials say US law encourages illegal immigration and puts lives at risk, but Cuban exiles in Miami characterize illegal Cuban immigrants as poor souls fleeing communism in search of freedom. |
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