The U.S. strategy was an appendix to the “wet foot, dry foot” policy created in the 1990s. Under “wet foot, dry foot,” Cubans who reached American soil on their own could stay in the U.S. Fox, speaking Sunday from Tampa, said the medical parole program was pushed by hard-liner anti-Castro Cubans in Miami. Arcos’ sister fled Eritrea and entered the medical parole program in what he described as a highly coordinated and secretive plan. Obama scrapped the medical parole program and “wet foot, dry foot” policy Thursday, the latest step to normalize relations between the U.S. and its old Cold War adversary.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 16, 2017 00:22 UTC