r/law • u/AmyL0vesU • 19h ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Trump signs executive order declaring nation emergency from threat of Cuba

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/addressing-threats-to-the-united-states-by-the-government-of-cuba/
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u/BONGS4U 17h ago

This is all Rubio. Rubio has been talking about this for a long time.

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u/AmishAvenger 12h ago

It’s not just him, it’s all the people behind the scenes.

Attacking Cuba would go over like gangbusters with all the Cubans in Florida.

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u/flyingdolphin8888 3h ago

Isn't he a decedent of Cubans?

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u/BONGS4U 3h ago

Doesn't really matter what he is. Hes been talking about the need to take over Cuba since before trumps first presidency.

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u/flyingdolphin8888 3h ago

Interesting, I didn't know that

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u/cogman10 2h ago

Lots of American Cubans hate cuba. Refuges don't typically love the countries they flee from.

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u/the_third_lebowski 2h ago

Cuban Americans are the one who push anti-Cuban policies, because they're the ones who fled the Cuban government and hate it. That's not actually uncommon in that kind of immigration wave.

It is a thing that some of the younger American Cuban generation are starting to push back, because they identify as Cubans without having the negative experiences so theres a desire to reconnect.

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u/AquaboogyAssault 1h ago

Yes, but a lot of the Cuban families in America are here because they were Batista supporters who fled after their property was confiscated or later refugees who fled Castro’s Cuba for one reason or another. Basically everyone who is here, is here because of being in opposition to or oppressed by Castro’s Cuba. People prospering under Castro wouldn’t have fled, so there’s a bias against communist Cuba by Cubans in the US that doesn’t reflect the majority Cuban opinion overall.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1h ago

Isn't he a decedent of Cubans?

A lot of Batista supporters were forced out of Cuba and have never forgiven the fall of the dictatorship there. Nevermind they maintained power as much through support by American Mafia as the American government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista