US president-elect Donald Trump was uncharacteristically silent on the last-minute move by the outgoing Barack Obama administration to end the longstanding favourable treatment of Cuban migrants seeking entry to the US. His Twitter silence belied the fact that the move in fact suits him, as he seeks to impose much tighter controls over US immigration flows. Aware of that, hard-line Cuban-Americans only half-heartedly contested the Obama decision, which had been expected for some time. The powerful Cuban-American political lobby on Capitol Hill is still hoping, however, that the new Trump administration will take a much tougher political stance towards the Cuban government, on threat of rolling back Obama’s executive measures to ease some of the half century-old restrictions on US-Cuba travel and trade. End of preview - This article contains approximately 1497 words.
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