Speech #1040203651

However. other than that one exception. there is simply no need for the Cuban Adjustment Act. and it should be repealed. It is very clear. No other group or nationality in the world. regardless of what is going on in their country. no other group or nationality in the world. in the entire world is able to get a green card merely by coming to the United States legally or illegally and remaining here for a year. That is what you have here. It is an extraordinary thing. Millions of persons who have a legal right to immigrate. to join family here. are waiting in the backlog sometimes for 15 or 20 years. It makes no sense to allow a Cuban to come here illegally on a raft or an inner tube or to fly in with a visitors visa to see friends In Miami and then simply stay on a year. violating our laws in doing so. and then be rewarded with the most precious thing we can give. and that is the green card. It strains all reason. You have a situation where a person comes on a tourist visa. goes immediately to the home of a relative in Florida. stays there. to be sure to pick up a receipt or show something they did with a date on it. a rent receipt or something. and in a year you go into the INS and you show anything you have to show that you have been here a year and you get a green card. We do not do that with people fleeing the most oppressive realms on the Earth. We do not do it with anybody.