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US HR205
Resolution
Status
3/10/2025
Primary Sponsor
Mark Green
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AI Summary
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Cuba designated as Tier 3 country in State Department's 2024 Trafficking in Persons Report for failing to meet minimum anti-trafficking standards, with the Cuban regime estimated to profit $6-8 billion annually from its labor export program
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Cuban regime confiscates passports and professional credentials, withholds significant wages, imposes surveillance and curfews on workers, and threatens or punishes medical personnel and their families who leave the program
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72 countries identified as potentially hosting government-affiliated Cuban workers in the past 5 years, including Brazil's "Mais Medicos" program facilitated by the Pan American Health Organization
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Resolution urges the President to utilize visa revocation authorities against foreign officials who participated in Cuba's trafficking schemes, including Brazilian, Cuban, Pan American Health Organization, Honduran, and Mexican officials
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Resolution endorses Secretary of State Marco Rubio's February 25, 2025 policy statement expanding visa restrictions for individuals exploiting Cuban labor
Legislative Description
Denouncing the human trafficking and forced labor of and profiteering from Cuban medical personnel serving in third-world countries.
International affairs
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
3/10/2025