Mauricio Claver-Carone: “I say, well, why do we want to follow the failed policy of even more countries?”

If we give away the United States, everything that is in trust for the future or Cuba, for future Cuba's democrats and others, we are essentially handing it to this mafia.

If we start acting like Canadians, Europe, and French, and everybody else, going on vacation in these Cuban military resorts and embracing this regime, we are going to lose being that beacon of hope to the United States.

But I think that brings to an important point is the reason we have these travel-related, tourism-related transactions in Cuba is because it's the Cuban military and security services' number one source of income.

We are talking about providing private financing to one company owned by the Castro regime that is going to hold food hostage over a people.