Obama has announced that he would relax trravel restrictions currently placed on Cuban exiles wanting to visit family in Cuba. Though this would seem a compassionate policy change and one that might break down political barriers between the US and Cuba, relaxing travel restrictions could very well encourage more Cubans to take advantage of our bizarre Wet Foot Dry Foot policy and make a potentially very dangerous dash across the Florida Straits to US soil. 

Moreover, the justification for allowing Cubans who manage to successfully sneak across the Florida straits and touch US soil to stay, where we pack up and send away Haitians who have done the very same thing along with those Cubans who don't make it all the way to pay dirt, is that they are escaping a repressive communist regime.  That someone who games his way into the US would then want to return to their former virtual political prison TO VISIT calls into question the status of "political exile" we use to justify their fast track to citizenship.

A more rational position for Obama - or anyone for that matter - would be to remove travel restrictions for any Cuban who has come to the US through the front door, using normal immigration procedures, and prohibit anyone who has come here claiming political sanctuary from visiting Cuba at all.  Exiles wanting to go on holiday to the places from which they were exiled just doesn't work for me.

While we are on the topic, why illegal immigrants in the country today haven't tried to make their way to a beach in the Florida Keys and claim they just arrived from Cuba is beyond me.