Feet Wet/Feet Dry Policy: An Ongoing Inhumanity © 2003 ABIP Agustin Blazquez and Jaums Sutton Friday, June 27, 2003 On Aug. 11, 1994, due to mounting discontent with his regime, Castro gave the order to the Cuban Coast Guard and security forces not to obstruct illegal departures (sinking their rafts and killing the people) from Cuban shores. Immediately, Cubans began abandoning Castro’s hellhole in anything that would float. According to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) timeline, on Aug. 19, 1994, the U.S. Coast Guard initiated "Operation ABLE VIGIL, a Cuban Mass Migration Emergency Plan in response to uncontrolled migration...