End the Travel Ban on Cuba

Cuban Americans Win Travel Rights AND Ask For "Travel For All"


President Obama today returned the right of Cuban Americans to travel to Cuba whenever they want and to support their families with remittances in whatever amount.  We applaud that action.  And we urge the President to do more.  Watch this video of Silvia Wilhelm, founder and executive director of Puentes Cubanos, asking for “travel for all” in addition to “travel for some.” 

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Silvia Wilhelm

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Cuba Travel Ban Legislation Goes Public

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S 428 Co-Sponsors (31)

A list of co-sponsors of S. 428, "The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act."

If your senators have not co-sponsored this legislation, see our action alert for information on how to contact them and urge them to support this bill. 

*For the Library of Congress co-sponsor list, please visit www.thomas.gov , and search by bill number.

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Obama on Cuban-American Family Travel

Check out this Friday afternoon article with news from the White House on President Obama’s apparent intention to announce an end to all restrictions on Cuban-American family travel and remittances to Cuba . . . prior to the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago in mid-April.  Momentum is building.  The world will notice.  The next move is congressional action on “travel for all.” here.

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HR 874 Co-Sponsors (162)

A list of co-sponsors of H.R. 874, "The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act." 

If your member of congress has not co-sponsored this legislation, see our action alert for information about how to contact him/her and urge him/her to support this bill. 

*For the Library of Congress co-sponsor list, please visit www.thomas.gov , and search by bill number.

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125 Reps co-sponsor "travel for all"--has yours?

On April 2, Representatives Bill Delahunt (D-MA) and Jeff Flake (R-AZ), along with Representatives Farr (D-CA), McGovern (D-MA), Emerson (R-MO), DeLauro (D-CT), Chaffetz (new member, R-UT), Lee (D-CA), Berry (D-AR), and Edwards (D-MD), plus important leaders within the Cuban-American community, participated in a block-buster press conference announcing HR 874, the House companion to the Senate travel bill, S 428.  The Cuban Americans hit it out of the park, leaving no doubt about the support for "travel for all" from the Cuban-American community. We wish you could have been there. 

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