Marco Rubio, Bob Menendez Team Up on Combating Trafficking of Cuban Doctors Act
By KEVIN DERBY -09.22.20
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ, both members of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, teamed up to introduce the “Combating Trafficking of Cuban Doctors Act” this week.
“This new bill seeks to strengthen accountability for the Cuban regime’s documented human trafficking and exploitation of Cuban doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals through the so-called ‘foreign medical missions’. The legislation reaffirms the United States’ commitment to defending democratic values and human rights in Cuba, and re-establishes the Cuban Medical Professional Parole Program, suspended under the Obama administration, in order to allow eligible Cuban medical professionals, and their immediate family, to come to the United States,” Rubio’s office noted.
Menendez, the top Democrat on the committee, introduced the bill on Monday with Rubio as a cosponsor.
