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Obama ends wet foot/dry foot policy
Immigration rules ‘risked thousands of Cubans lives’
SOLIDARITY campaigners welcomed US President Barack Obama’s ending of the “wet-foot/dry foot” policy which saw Cuban immigrants risk their lives at sea.
The contentious policy, introduced under former president Bill Clinton, stipulated that any migrants intercepted at sea would be sent home, but those who set foot on US soil could remain.
Cuba has long protested that the policy encourages its citizens to risk their lives on the 90-mile sea journey to Florida.
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