Cuba: United States to End Wet Foot-Dry Foot Policy

WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States President Barack Obama has announced that he is putting an end to the wet foot-dry foot policy, instituted more than 20 years ago by then-President Bill Clinton, in which any Cubans that reached US shores in any manner were allowed to stay and given residency.

In one of his last acts before his final presidential term ends on January 20, Obama announced through the Office of the Press Secretary that the United States is taking the "important step" in changing its policies with the island nation as part of a move forward to "normalize relations with Cuba" and to "bring greater consistency to our immigration policy."

"The Department of Homeland Security is ending the so-called "wet-foot/dry foot" policy, which was put in place more than twenty years ago and was designed for a different era," the statement read.

Obama's move explains...