Cuellar says bill to end Cuban Adjustment Act unlikely to pass during election year (interview link below)

Records show 100,000 Cubans have come to the U.S. seeking amnesty in the past two years.

Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar some of our neighbors from the south are sending at least 30,000 more to the Texas border.

"They're sending them directly on charter planes to the boarder of Texas," said Cuellar. "Either Nueva Laredo, up 35 to San Antonio, and onto Miami, or now through Cuidad Juarez, which is across El Paso"

Congressman Cuellar says they're coming here at such a high number because relations between the U.S. and Cuba have warmed up, and they fear congress will change the 1966 Adjustment Act.

Right now, that act allows Cubans to receive pure amnesty in America. That means they get immediate, full federal benefits, including food assistance and housing assistance as well as well as $1,800 a year in resettlement money. They also can become naturalized citizens within five years. Cuellar calls this act a "magnet" for Cubans.

"So no other group gets treated like that," Cuellar told us. "Numbers are going to keep on coming until we make a change in the law."

Congressman Cuellar co-authored a bill to end the Cuban Adjustment Act, but says it's unlikely it will pass during an election year.

http://foxsanantonio.com/news/local/cuellar-says-bill-to-end-cuban-adjustment-act-unlikely-to-pass-during-election-year-05-18-2016