Created in 2007, the Cuban Family Reunification Parole Program allows certain eligible U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents (LPRs) to apply for parole for their family members in Cuba. If granted parole, these family members may come to the United States without waiting for their immigrant visas to become available. Once in the United States, CFRP Program beneficiaries may apply for work authorization while they wait to apply for lawful permanent resident status.
According to Senator Marco Rubio, and Representives. Maria Elvira Salazar and Carlos Gimenez, Menendez is not an eligible candidate for this program due to his life-long membership in the Cuban Communist Party.
Menendez was previously a top official within Cuba’s Communist Party in the city of Cienfuegos, El Nuevo Herald reported.
In their letter to Blinken and Mayorkas, who was born in Cuba and came to the US in 1960 as a one-year-old child, they wrote, “We are outraged that an individual with a role in suppressing the Cuban people for decades was permitted the extraordinary privilege of US entry so that he could spend his retirement in freedom and comfort.”
This is truly misguided and extremely insensitive by these Biden-Harris Administration officials to show their total disregard to a program which is supposed to assist persecuted individuals of a a dictatorship, and instead, rewards one who actively assisted in that persecution. It belies comprehension.
Perhaps, if the Administration stonewalls a response within a reasonable timeframe, the Congress should find reasonable cause to send Comrade Menendez back to Cuba to learn his fate there.
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