South Florida lawmakers pushing for change in immigration policy

“South Florida’s Cuban-American U.S. House members are launching a lobbying campaign to convince the Bush administration to change the controversial “wet foot, dry foot” immigration policy so that every migrant has access to a lawyer - even those caught at sea.

With emotions still raw over the Coast Guard’s repatriation of 15 Cubans who landed on pilings of an old, unused bridge in the Florida Keys, Reps. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen sent a letter to the State Department and Homeland Security, asking federal officials to craft a new policy….”

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