A group of Cuban Americans living in Vermont is suing the U.S. government over its restrictions on traveling to Cuba to visit family.
Four Vermonters filed a lawsuit Wednesday at U.S. District Court in Burlington. They say travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans violate their civil rights.
Before 2004, Cuban-Americans could visit their homeland once a year to see family without getting approval from the U.S. government. But in 2004, the Bush administration changed the rule, restricting visits by Cuban-Americans to once every three years.
The new restrictions also changed the definition of family members to immediate family.
The lawsuit says the new rules make no exception for the death, illness, birth or marriage of family members in Cuba.