state and the department of treasury to focus on what other steps we need to take to put pressure on the cuban regime. i think it is very important we work closely with our international partners, spain being one of them, i also think that we need to support cubans here that are demanding that the cuban family reunification program gets reinstated. that was one day to the next, it was ended by the trump administration, and we have thousands of families here that are waiting for their family members to come to be reunited with their families here in the united states. if you remember, jonathan, the trump administration deported thousands of cubans at the border and refused to process any asylum requests. we have the situation happening in cuba. we have the situation happening in haiti. in years past when things happened on both those nations, people from those countries make their way to the united states more often than not by sea. have a listen to what homeland
security secretary mayorkas the message he had for the people of cuba and haiti. the time is never right to tempt migration by sea. to those who risk their lives doing so, this risk is not worth taking. congresswoman, we have less than a minute left. your reaction to the homeland security secretary s message? i absolutely agree. it is extremely dangerous for families to try to pass and cross the florida straits. we have seen many people lose their lives, children losing their lives. but they re desperate and that s why i think it is absolutely necessary for the u.s. to look at the parole options for haitians, for cubans. let s remember they re trying to flee violence, famine, political persecution, it is extremely dangerous. it is really threatening the security of the region and that s why it should be and must
that up there. no, this is not correct. it is the failed policies of a communist regime that has violated human rights, people are risking their lives to rise up. we must listen to them. this is a matter of national security. the u.s. must act. what more do you want to see from the biden administration when it comes to cuba? i think one of the things yeah, thank you, jonathan, i think it is incredibly important for the entire country to understand that the one government that we need to blame here is the failed regime of cuba. nothing else. i think it is incredibly insulting for anyone to assume that it is anything else except the repressive regime we have seen the dictatorship in cuba, and i think the biden administration has been very decisive and is prioritizing rightly so what is happening in cuba by asking the department of
with the organization of american states, with the united nations, to ensure we put pressure in the regime that has oppressed cubans for decades. we need to listen to the cuban people. they are demanding freedom. they have been marching on the streets really threatening their lives. there have been hundreds of mass detentions. many people have disappeared. and i think that the united states government is prurg the cuban regime to ensure that they listen to their people in their demands for freedom and democracy. and yet there seems to be there is a bit of a split in sort of public thought on what the united states should do, vis-a-vis cuba. i want to put there was a tweet from alexandria ocasio-cortez. she said our 60-year-old embargo, i reject the defense of the embargo, it is never acceptable for us to use cruelty as a point of leverage against a people. you responded to her and we have
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