As most of the immigration talk coming from GOP has focused on deploying more border patrol agents and building a wall along Mexico, Republican candidates have spent far less time publically discussing changes that will likely soon come regarding the nation’s policy on Cuban immigrants.
The United States and Cuba took another progressive leap toward normalizing relations on Tuesday by signing an agreement to restore regular air service between the two countries for the first time in five decades.
Sunday is the 62nd anniversary of the first offensive Fidel Castro's guerrillas made against Cuba’s then dictator Fulgencio Batista. The 1953 rebellion brought down Batista and altered the ideological aims of the island nation a mere five years later.
Cuba and the United States are working toward reestablishing ties; in doing so they'll re-open embassies for the first time in more than half a century. However, the rekindling will also affect the lives of ten of thousands of Cuban nationals living in the U.S. who face deportation by order of immigration authorities.
