I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4847 
To repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act, Public Law 89–732, to provide that 
certain Cuban entrants are ineligible to receive refugee assistance, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 23, 2016 
Mr. FARENTHOLD (for himself and Mr. CUELLAR) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addi-
tion to the Committees on Education and the Workforce and Ways and 
Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act, Public Law 89–732, 
to provide that certain Cuban entrants are ineligible to 
receive refugee assistance, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Correcting Unfair Ben-
efits for Aliens Act of 2016’’ or as the ‘‘CUBA Act of 
2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS; SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) On July 1, 2015, President Obama an-
nounced that Cuba and the United States would re-
open their embassies and restore diplomatic ties. 
(2) Diplomatic relations between the two coun-
tries were formally reestablished July 20, 2015, 
when the United States and Cuba reopened their re-
spective embassies. 
(3) The International Business Times reported 
on September 10, 2015, that ‘‘Texas is on pace this 
year to set a new record for the number of Cubans 
trying to enter the United States through the Lone 
Star State, with about 60 percent more migrants 
from the island nation making the trip in 2015 com-
pared to one year before.’’. 
(4) The Obama Administration has reestab-
lished relations with Cuba, and that, therefore, the 
special treatment Cuban nationals receive under the 
Cuban Adjustment Act, the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act, the Cuban Family Reunification Pro-
gram and the Wet Foot/Dry Foot policy are no 
longer applicable and fail the ‘‘urgent humanitarian 
reasons’’ and ‘‘significant public benefit’’ tests. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that Cuban nationals should be treated under the 
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same immigration rules as nationals of other countries 
with which the United States has diplomatic relations and 
should not receive preferential treatment. 
SEC. 3. REPEAL OF THE CUBAN ADJUSTMENT ACT. 
(a) REPEALS OF RELEVANT STATUTES.— 
(1) REPEAL
OF
LIMITATION
ON
REPEAL
OF 
CUBAN ADJUSTMENT ACT.—Section 606 of title VI 
of division C of Public Law 104–208 is repealed. 
(2) CUBAN
ADJUSTMENT
ACT.—Public Law 
89–732 is repealed. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The repeal made by sub-
section (a) shall take effect on the date of the enactment 
of this Act and shall apply only to any alien admitted or 
paroled into the United States on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 4. CERTAIN ACTIVITIES RESTRICTED. 
No funds, resources, or fees made available to the 
Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of State, 
or to any other official of a Federal agency, by this Act 
or any other Act for any fiscal year, including any deposits 
into the ‘‘Immigration Examinations Fee Account’’ estab-
lished under section 286(m) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1356(m)), may be used to imple-
ment, administer, enforce, or carry out (including through 
the issuance of any regulations) any of the policy changes 
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