US to resume full immigrant visa processing in early 2023

Found this on CNN:

The Biden administration announced Wednesday that starting early next year, the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, will resume full immigrant visa processing for the first time since 2017, as border officials contend with an increasing number of Cubans at the US southern border.

The move is part of a concerted effort to expand legal pathways to the United States, which was laid out in the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection during the Summit of the Americas in June.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services is also increasing the number of personnel in Havana to process cases and conduct interviews as part of the Cuban Reunification Parole Program. The program, which resumed in August, allows certain US eligible citizens and lawful permanent residents to apply for parole for their family Cuba so they can reunite in the US.

Along with the Biden administration's announcement last May that it was lifting so many of Donald Trump's measures to clamp down on US trade with and travel to Cuba, Joe Biden's decision to order consular services at the US Embassy in Havana (which functioned as the US Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana from 1977-2015) to be reactivated as well as restaffing the diplomatic mission are further clear reminders of why the Cuban government wanted former vice president Joe Biden to win the 2020 presidential election, since they already recognized that Donald Trump was too mean-spirited to be trusted. To be honest, these moves are all part of a broader effort by Joe Biden to repair the damage to US-Cuba relations by Donald Trump, and although Biden is less afraid to impose targeted sanctions on the Cuban secret police than Obama, like the very Obama under whom he served as vice president, he reminds himself that a lack of political change in Cuba doesn't mean getting all worked up and squeezing the island's economy due to the fact that the cost of Cuba shipping spare parts for infrastructure and critical goods for faraway places in the former Soviet bloc, East Asia, South Asia, and Middle East is very high.

a reply to: Potlatch

I could of swore there was a thread about the Dems restricting Cuban visas or something. Something about them being republicans because they came here to escape communism not embrace it.

a reply to: Crackalackin

well, Cubans aren't going to be voting for socialism. They understand what it can do much more than US democrats who have yet to learn not to be idiots.

a reply to: network dude

While a great majority of the older Cubans are hard core Trumpets. I have 2 older Cuban uncles that are in love with him practically. Younger people that have come over from Cuba more recently have told me that:

1. Trump is a dictator. Which they would know.
2. Biden is pretty much a Republican from their point of view. They don't view him as a leftist. I'm assuming in comparison to what they left I suppose.

originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: network dude

While a great majority of the older Cubans are hard core Trumpets. I have 2 older Cuban uncles that are in love with him practically. Younger people that have come over from Cuba more recently have told me that:

1. Trump is a dictator. Which they would know.
2. Biden is pretty much a Republican from their point of view. They don't view him as a leftist. I'm assuming in comparison to what they left I suppose.

um...this is awkward. I hate to be the guy to break this to you, but Trump isn't president anymore. A guy named Biden is. Look into it.

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Crackalackin

well, Cubans aren't going to be voting for socialism. They understand what it can do much more than US democrats who have yet to learn not to be idiots.

Joe Biden is no socialist, his government doesn't have a Gosplan-style agency for controlling the economy. If Ron DeSantis is prosecuted for his treatment of immigrants, then he will lose his bid for re-election.

originally posted by: Potlatch

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Crackalackin

well, Cubans aren't going to be voting for socialism. They understand what it can do much more than US democrats who have yet to learn not to be idiots.

Joe Biden is no socialist, his government doesn't have a Gosplan-style agency for controlling the economy. If Ron DeSantis is prosecuted for his treatment of immigrants, then he will lose his bid for re-election.

wouldn't it have to be illegal for him to be prosecuted?

a reply to: network dude

I had this convo when Trump was president.

originally posted by: network dude

originally posted by: Potlatch

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Crackalackin

well, Cubans aren't going to be voting for socialism. They understand what it can do much more than US democrats who have yet to learn not to be idiots.

Joe Biden is no socialist, his government doesn't have a Gosplan-style agency for controlling the economy. If Ron DeSantis is prosecuted for his treatment of immigrants, then he will lose his bid for re-election.

wouldn't it have to be illegal for him to be prosecuted?

If the affair involving the busing of immigrants from Venezuela miraculously costs Ron DeSantis his gubernatorial re-election campaign, and DeSantis eventually leaves office, then he could be prosecuted in theory.