It seems that the outgoing occupant of the White House decided to extend a bit of kindness to Castro Inc.’s slave doctors who had already applied for entry to the U.S. under the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program that he just abolished a few days ago.
Yeah. It’s sort of a little parting gift unlike all his other recent ones.
From El Jeral (Miami Herald)
Hundreds of Cuban medical professionals waiting in third countries for permission to emigrate to the United States got a reprieve Thursday with a new announcement by the Obama administration: paperwork submitted prior to the official end of the Cuban Medical Professional Parole program will be processed.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) updated aspects of the new immigration policy toward Cuba and now says it will process pending applications to the parole program known by the acronym CMPP — provided paperwork was submitted before 5 p.m. Jan. 12, the official end to the program.
“[United States Citizenship and Immigration Services] will not accept and adjudicate any CMPP cases received at U.S. embassies and consulates on or after 5:00 p.m. EST on January 12, 2017,” a DHS spokesman said in statement Thursday. “However, cases initiated before that time frame will continue to be accepted and adjudicated by USCIS to completion.”
The clarification comes a week after the Obama administration announced the elimination of the program, as well as an end to wet foot, dry foot policy, which gave entry to most Cuban migrants who made it onto U.S. soil.
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The, uh, doctors in that photo look like socotrocos to me. Of course, the goal is quantity, not quality.