travel ban

If there were any doubts that these are desperate times for anti-Castro hard-liners, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida has put them to rest.

The ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ros-Lehtinen would have us believe that lifting the 1961 ban on travel to Cuba would somehow pose a major threat to U.S. national security. How? By making Cuba a haven for criminals and enabling the Castro regime to turn tourists into traitors.