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With regards to Cuba, that whole situation has been messy.It'd be great if Republicans would help push for policies that reduce the motivations for people to travel to our borders. Why are we still sanctioning Cuba and Venezuela?
For one thing, they were holding political prisoners and were refusing to allow UN Human Rights Investigators in to inspect some things.
And I think there's still been the looming fear that their combination of "views that are sympathetic to our adversaries" combined with their close proximity to us could present the same concerns that existed back in Kennedy's day.
I'll grant this is a notably right-leaning source, and the article is a little dated (it's from 1994 - so they weren't quite as hyper-partisan as their publication is today), but it explains some of the reasons behind why presidents (including Bill Clinton who's being discussed in this article since he was Pres at the time it was written) have been reluctant to re-establish full trade with Cuba.
In a nutshell, without Cuba making some serious changes to their domestic policy, us funneling them revenue via trade agreements and commerce would basically just be like helping to fund oppression. Now, one could make a case that we're already doing that with some other questionable countries that don't have a great human rights track record...but none the less.
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