Miami, United States. – Cuban American congressman Carlos Giménez reiterated on Wednesday, during An interview with the journalist Mario J. Pentónhis call to a policy of “maximum pressure” against the Cuban regime, while claiming the immediate deportation of former communist officials residing in the United States and were involved in repressive acts on the island.
“When I found that there were more than 100 of them [represores]… Let’s put the first 100, the worst, let’s see why they are here, how they entered the United States and if they made false statements, ”said Giménez.
The congressman, who was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States being a child, questioned that organizations of the American country have identified these people and have not done “nothing.” As he revealed, he will request a meeting with the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, to demand action on the cases of identified repressors. “They should not have the benefit of being in the US when they were oppressing their people in Cuba,” he said.
Giménez has promoted a series of initiatives that seek to cut the sources of financing of the Cuban regime. Among them, the congressman has asked the White House to end all flights and remittances to Cuba. “We are holding the Cuban regime. They steal a lot from that money and never reach the pockets of the town,” he denounced.
The congressman also referred to the exploitation of Cuban health professionals abroad, a model denounced by international organizations as a form of modern slavery. In that sense, he asked the US president to impose rates to countries that hire Cuban medical personnel without ensuring that the payment reaches the workers directly. “If they do not start paying doctors and nurses directly … then the president must put more tariffs on those countries,” he said.
The legislator recalled that these services export programs have been one of the main sources of income of the Cuban regime. “All that money comes to the regime to help maintain power,” he said.
In addition, although he did not confirm whether he will support an eventual reactivation of the Cuban Medical Professional Parole, a program suspended in 2017 that offered refuge to Cuban health professionals, Giménez indicated that if Congressman Mario Díaz-Balart considers it a good idea, he probably also supported it.
At another time of his interview with Pentón, Giménez stressed that his struggle is not against the Cuban people, but against those who have held more than six decades of repression. “I am the enemy of the regime. What I want for Cuba is for these bandits to leave,” he said. “It’s time for a new day in Cuba. A day of freedom.”
Both Giménez and Díaz-Balart, Marco Rubio and María Elvira Salazar have claimed a stricter immigration policy and an increase in sanctions against individuals and entities linked to the Cuban regime.
“Those who came to retire in the US here after oppressing their people have to return and face those who oppressed,” Giménez concluded.
