Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Friday, during a campaign swing through Little Havana in Miami, clarified his proposal to bar immigrants from terrorism-sponsoring nations — which, according to the U.S. State Department, includes Cuba.
Huckabee said Cubans would be exempt from the ban, although he did express his support for the wet foot, dry foot policy, according to the Miami Herald.
''There's a different picture for Cuba because of our long history that has been established since the 1960s. And we have a very distinct policy when it relates to Cuba, one that I think we should continue. And that is that if you get a foot on dry soil, you should be able to come here,'' Huckabee said to reporters and about 50 supporters.
"I wouldn't do anything to change that policy one iota.''
Huckabee also expressed his solidarity with Cuban political prisoner Dr. Oscar Biscet, who got in trouble with the dictatorship for, among other things, opposing its pro-abortion policies.
'It's hard for us to imagine that a person who refused to commit an act of murder against an unborn child -- and then who would be willing to speak out about its horrors -- would be in jail. We can't think about something so awful in this country because we value our freedom,'' Huckabee said.
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