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On the recordJune 8, 1995
Today at noon the Cuban-American community will hold a rally in front of the White House to protest the immoral policy of the Clinton administration of repatriating freedom-seeking Cubans who escaped their homeland for liberty in the United States. Through the accord, the Clinton administration once again has shown its foreign policy ineptitude, and specifically its lack of vision and effectiveness toward the formulation of a clear Cuba policy. Instead of supporting the desires for freedom for the Cuban people, the President has preferred to accept the empty promises from the ruler of a totalitarian state who promotes terrorism, and is about to finish construction of a potentially dangerous and unsafe nuclear powerplant just a few hundred miles from our shores. Yet, we hear only silence from the administration on these illicit acts by the Cuban dictator. I hope that the President takes a look from the White House at today's demonstration, so he can listen to the voices of those Cubans who were forced to leave their country in search of freedom, and from those who suffered from the oppressive hand of the Cuban dictator. Maybe then the President will realize the diabolical consequences of his failed policy and join us in implementing new sanctions against the Cuban tyrant.
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · Florida

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Addressing a rally by the Cuban-American community protesting U.S. policy towards Cuba.

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