Obama seems happiest when the majority of america is unhappy. That said, I do recall the controversy when Reagan allowed the Cuban Boat People to come in and receive medical assistance. This may serve Obama’s purposes as an adequate precedence
of an Executive Order providing amnesty. “Reagan Did it, and was praised! What? I can’t do it because of my race? Is that the belief?”
The ‘Mariel boatlift’? That was under “Peanuts” Carter.
Relations between the Cubans and the Reagan administration ‘deteriorated’ so that by 1985 the export by Cuba of its criminals to this country slowed to a trickle.