Why Obama stopped “wet-foot/dry-foot” Cuba policy

First, the story, from CNN.com:

US ending ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy for Cubans

by Elise Labott, Kevin Liptak, & Patrick Oppmann

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama is ending the longstanding “wet foot, dry foot” policy that allows Cubans who arrive in the United States without a visa to become permanent residents, the administration announced Thursday.

The move, which wasn’t previously outlined and is likely one of the final foreign policy decisions of Obama’s term, terminates a decades-long policy that many argued amounted to preferential treatment for a single group of migrants.
“By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries,” Obama wrote in a statement Thursday.

Cubans, as you might expect, are not entirely pleased that the 1995 policy is stopping. From the ManilaTimes.net:

Obama ‘screwed’ us, angry Cuban migrants say

PANAMA CITY: “Obama has screwed all Cubans,” Yadiel Cruz, a Cuban in Panama bitterly told Agence France-Presse on Thursday upon learning the US president has suddenly made it tougher for migrants like him to get into America.

The 33-year-old summed up what many compatriots were feeling as they digested the news in a Catholic shelter in Panama’s capital, a waypoint on their overland trek to the United States.

Ulises Ferrer, a carpenter from Havana, said: “We don’t know what we’re going to do now. But what we’re certain of is that we’re not going back to Cuba unless we’re dead.”

There is always a reason for policy change. It is this:

Cubans are not a monolithic voting bloc like blacks or Mexicans. In fact, Cuban-Americans voted for Trump at a higher rate than “white Americans.”

The reason distills down to political payback. Favoring the “underdogs” oppressed by America, and providing punishment to those Cuban-Americans who voted Trump. As far as Obama is concerned, the best of both worlds.

Once again, clear and obvious proof that Barack Hussein Obama embraces evil — in the guise of the Castros — and eschews good, because Cubans aren’t “his people.” He is supporting Raul Castro and not the Cubans who wish to leave.

Obama is doing this because 1. He can, and 2. He is leaving. Again, defecating on the American people before exiting the presidency.

It’s no more complicated than that.

BZ