U.S. offers to renew talks with Cuba on immigration

By Rachel Polster

The United States government is intending to renew previous talks about immigration with the Cuban government. Their goal is for safe, legal, and orderly migration and to look at the recent trends in illegal Cuban migration to the United States. Bush would not allow for any such talks because of the Cuban dictatorship. President Obama however, is trying to ease family travel and financial restrictions between the US and Cuba. Last month, high-ranking State diplomats of both countries met for informal talk on how the two countries can coordinate on issues. Republicans are not in favor of such meetings because they feel that the US should insist a change in the Cuban dictatorship before complying with the country through talks. This issue is obviously not going to be solved any time soon, but change is in progress.