Posted on 06/28/2016 6:06:40 PM PDT by SMGFan
group of 21 Cuban migrants who reached a lighthouse off the Florida Keys last month should be returned to the island nation because the structure does not count as U.S. soil, a Miami federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge Darrin Gayles' ruling said the 136-year-old American Shoal lighthouse does not count as dry land under the U.S.'s "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy.
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Why is it called American Shoals?
-PJ
not explained here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Shoal_Light
Since Cuba has now become a great friend of the USA, these people will no doubt be warmly received when they are deported to their homeland.
So, I guess Obama will change the name to Cuban Shoals...
What happened to the America I was born in?
Bastard.
Wikipedia:
In 2004, Gayles became a judge, serving as a County Judge in Miami-Dade County within the Eleventh Judicial Circuit. From 2011 to 2014, he served as a Circuit Court Judge on the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida.[1]
Personal[edit]
Gayles is openly gay.[2]
Federal judicial service[edit]
On February 6, 2014, President Obama nominated Gayles to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, to the seat vacated by Judge Patricia A. Seitz, who took senior status on November 16, 2012.[3] He received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on April 1, 2014.[4]
I have been told by a liberal friend that Cuba is now a free nation, thanks to Obama.
too bad, if they had entered from Mexico they would have been given food, lodging, jobs, drivers licenses, the right to vote,...
This is horrible!
The Cubans are NOT “migrants”
They are truly refugees fleeing an oppressive Communist regime.
In the meantime the US is allowing illegal immigrants from Mexico and other S. American countries to just walk across the border, stay in the US and collect welfare.
you forgot food stamps, EBT card, free medical care, free dental care, housing after you have to move out of your government provided temporary hotel, tax refund for children you plan on having at sometime in the future, refund because you can’t afford to pay a minimum tax, college scholarship, free cell phone,free internet...
Cuban immigrants tend to vote republican.
This is the reason for their return :-(
Because of the free SSI money.
The Shoals remain submerged at all times, fetching up on the light structure would be akin to climbing onto an offshore oil rig.
Iow, not dry land.
That said, seems like the whole process will be changing eventually, possibly including repeal of the Cuban Adjustment Act were the wrong peeps get into office.
NO ONE should be allowed just to show up here from anywhere! If we do not stop illegal immigration, our country will soon not be “that shining beacon,” it will be just another $hithole clone of most of the rest of the world. We do not have the means, nor the real estate, to take in all who want to come here.
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