'U.S. must focus on ending Cuban regime,' warns Inspire America president

“The United States should focus on ending the regime for the benefit of the Cuban people," Marcell Felipe, president of the Inspire America Foundation, said on Tuesday about the establishment of a dialogue between Washington and Havana on immigration issues.

Representatives of both governments will meet next Thursday in the U.S. capital to discuss migration issues, in the midst of an extraordinary exodus of Cubans, according to Reuters.

"Once again, the United States is going to rescue the regime," Marcell Felipe told ADN Cuba. According to the Cuban-American lawyer, after the increase in repression as a result of last summer's protests in Cuba, the U.S. government would be "opening the regime's escape valve every time it faces the anger of its people."

"Short-sighted U.S. policy has allowed the U.S. to be played every time. Instead, it should focus on ending the regime for the benefit of the Cuban people and ending the use of the island as a base for Russia and potentially one day as a base for China and North Korea or America's enemy-in-waiting," said Marcell Felipe.

The United States wants the communist regime to accept more deportees from the record number of Cubans arriving at the U.S. southern border, a U.S. official and another source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance (ARC) said in a statement that sitting at the table with representatives from Havana sends "a message of weakness and not of support to the Cuban people, at a time when the struggle for freedom is progressively increasing in the country." 

The coalition adds that the negotiations "are the result of the migratory pressure that the regime has exerted against the U.S. government in recent months. This is not surprising. Every time the Cuban people's rebellion grows, the regime offers an escape valve."

On April 21, ARC will hold a press conference on the start of "immigration talks between the U.S. government and the communist tyranny of Cuba."

The meeting will take place at 10:30 am at the headquarters of Brigade 2506, located at 1821 SW 9th Street, Miami, Florida, 33145.