government revised the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966, creating a new policy that became known as "wet-foot, dryfoot." The program more or less granted Cubans who made it to shore the legal right to stay.
I've seen the wide sea iced solid, a frozen slippery crust holding the under-water still--not just seen, either: I've walked the solid sea-lanes, crunching their surface dryfoot. (40) Pushkin thus combines two sources--the Roman exile's testimony and the Bessarabian myth--and creates an image of Ovid both poetic and apocryphal.