A rival campaign tipped me off to the following statement by Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, ”I say we ought to put a hiatus on people who come in
here … if they come from countries that sponsor and harbor terrorists.”
Such a move would presumably end immigration from Cuba, which is on the official State Department list of terrorism sponsors. And that would not sit well with the Cuban-American voters who represent a hefty percentage of likely Florida Republican primary voters. The U.S. government’s existing immigration quota of 20,000 visas a year for Cubans was created in 1994 to stem the dramatic flow of balseros from the island.
