Posted on 06/16/2017 11:43:16 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
Thanks for the link.
While I think we should normalize relations with Cuba, but to be sure any deal 0bama made was sure to be bad for the USA. After all not many countries violate human right any worse than China and we are in debt up to our eyeballs with them.
Some of this is okay, but it’s simply not Trump’s (or the US government’s) decision or place to tell INDIVIDUAL US travelers where they may go or what they may do overseas.
That’s just government overreach and should be opposed. It doesn’t matter if it’s Cuba or anywhere else - once you start trying to restrict people in that fashion, there is no endpoint.
We can easily imagine a future liberal administration that uses the same legal frameworks to (for example) ban Americans from heading to South Africa to stop a racially-motivated genocide down there.
Sorry. Not the government’s place to tell private, free citizens where they can go. I can’t support that.
My son left this morning for a missions trip to Cuba. I’m a little worried now.
I will add him to my Prayers.
Trump does not want to fill the Cuban/communist coffers with American $$$.
‘If an individual follows regulations for travel to Cuba, then they can travel, whether they get there by air, boat or any other means,’ an official said.
Americans will no longer be able to travel to Cuba individually unless they fall into one of 12 previously established categories that will continue to include people-to-people but only if they are part of a group with a set schedule.
Official government visits, family visits, journalistic activity, research, education, religious activities, professional sports or performances, humanitarian trips and certain government-approved voyages for exports will still be allowed.
The US government also permits Americans to visit if they are providing ‘support to the Cuban people.’
A senior official explained that Trump was not cutting diplomatic relations off or restricting travel to Cuba entirely because ‘we want this relationship to be one in which we can encourage the Cuban people through economic interaction.’
‘I think this is an effort to review what the president has called a very, very bad deal, not that he is opposed to any deal, but he is opposed to a bad deal with Cuba,’ the official said.
The US government is hoping to squeeze on the Grupo de Administración Empresarial, S.A., or GAESA. It’s the military-run company that controls the bulk of Cuba’s establishments.
This policy will only last until next week when a judge puts an injunction on it for discriminating against Cuban nationals. Probably will be from the 9th circuit again.
From the article:
***Official government visits, family visits, journalistic activity, research, education, religious activities, professional sports or performances, humanitarian trips and certain government-approved voyages for exports will still be allowed.
The US government also permits Americans to visit if they are providing ‘support to the Cuban people.’ ***
I will keep your son in my prayers, but I think he will be fine being on a mission trip.
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