Temporary legal status for thousands of Cuban immigrants revoked

I thought Dan would be all over this.

I certainly hope it come back to bite Trump in his fat ass.

The Trump administration’s decision last week to revoke temporary legal status for thousands of Cuban immigrants is putting Cuban American Republicans, most of whom vocally support the president, in the difficult political position of either backing an end to a popular program in their community — or disagreeing with Trump.

President Joe Biden started the so-called humanitarian parole process for Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan and Venezuelan migrants. It created a framework used by more than 500,000 people from those countries to stay in the U.S. for up to two years if they had a financial sponsor. Of the four migrant population groups covered, the biggest by far are Cubans.

Miami-Dade County is home to the largest populations of each migrant group in the country, including more than 1 million Cuban Americans. That group over the past few decades has amassed significant political clout within the Republican Party.

Guillermo Grenier, a Florida International University professor who helps lead the school’s Cuba Poll, the longest-running research project tracking the opinions of Cuban Americans in South Florida, said that when migrants come from Cuba they are not always familiar with the politics in the United States, but enter a Cuban American community that is overwhelmingly Republican-leaning.

“They say ‘I just know the Republican Party is the party of the Cubans,’” he added of new arrivals to the country.

This has led to a significant number of Cuban American Republicans from the area being elected to Congress and the Florida Legislature, both of which are now in a thorny political position after the Trump administration moved to end the program. The changes are set to take effect April 24.

“You can ask me about any of my bills, which I’m very proud of,” said Florida state Sen. Alexis Calatayud, a Cuban American Miami Republican who tried to brush off several questions from NBC News about the policy. “The best way to reach out is through email.”