Why the ‘wet-foot, dry-foot’ debate could soon be coming to a head

*From the article: “Cubans do have access to a route to immigration and citizenship that no other group enjoys. That’s certainly a source of some well-documented tensions between the United States’ mostly Democratic-leaning Mexican-Americans and the country’s more (but certainly shifting left) Republican Cuban-American populations.” VLK

By Janell Ross, Washington Post

There are references to it almost every day now in Miami’s newspaper.

The number of Cubans attempting to enter the country illegally by sea and, if they make it to land, take advantage of a unique option to eventually become a U.S. citizen open only to Cubans has surged dramatically.

Most U.S. and Cuban officials and Cuba observers have attributed the shift to the fact that the U.S. is moving toward normalizing relations with Cuba. More specifically, Cubans who want off the island fear that the American policy — officially dubbed the “Cuban Adjustment Act” but known far more widely as “wet-foot dry-foot” — will come to an end. Rumors are reportedly flying all over the island.

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