End the 1995 US Government Wet Foot/Dry Foot Policy for Cuban Refugees

The United States gives migrants from Cuba special treatment that no other group of refugees or immigrants receives. The so-called “wet-foot, dry-foot policy” puts Cubans who reach U.S. soil on a fast track to permanent residency. The government initiated the policy in 1995 as an amendment to the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act that Congress passed when Cold War tensions ran high between the U.S. and the island nation. This policy is now not needed given the new political relations with Cuba.