Posted on 12/15/2006 4:05:33 PM PST by burzum
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- A group of Cubans deported in January after nearly reaching the United States landed Friday at close to the same spot, a bridge in the Florida Keys that authorities earlier ruled wasn't American soil, a relative said.
The people who beached around 3:30 a.m. at the new Seven Mile Bridge's south end near a state park in the lower Florida Keys had not been identified, Monroe County sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin said. They were being taken to a Border Patrol station for processing.
Mariela Conesa said her teenage son, husband and five others in the January group were among the new arrivals. "I am so, so happy," said Conesa, who hadn't seen her son since she left Cuba by homemade boat in 1998.
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I believe the bridge was no longer in use and that it had suffered a partial structural collapse along certain places along its span. A person couldn't drive along the bridge and reach the landing point because of breaks in the bridge.
Hooray! More illegals!
Not in the English definition of the term. Do you speak Spanish, or something?
I wonder if the West Germans said that to East Germans who escaped communism. I find it interesting that you have no pity for the survivors of a brutal communist regime.
Well, heck..let's just let everybody in! Cubans, Haitians, Somalians, Rwandans, Nicaraguans, they're all victims. Mexico's pretty corrupt nowadays. Lots of people would like to flee China. And there's infinite resources here for everyone, courtesy of your tax dollars.
what about the haitians
How many brutal regimes are there oppressing how many billions of people are there?
Can they ALL come here?
I agree, well said.
Cubans are refugees, not "il-LAY-guls" Tancredo groupies!
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
So the US should relax immigration standards and admit 1.2 billion Chinese? However bad Castro may be, he's nothing compared to Mao and his descendants in terms of communist butchery. Why do Cubans get in and Chinese don't?
Feel free to petition Congress to stop allowing humanitarian refugees residency in the US. Aside from the fact that millions (or more) of Americans were refugees or are descendants of refugees I can't image how we could support any more. After all, wouldn't the Christian thing to do be to send them back to sea and say "I hope you aren't persecuted in the future" like we did with the Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
From what I've heard they didn't decide to set sail until they were able to find *your* address. They wanted to make sure that they would be able to use your tax dollars specifically in schools, hospitals, and welfare.
Go educate yourself. Cubans who reach American soil are not illegals. There is no such thing as an illegal Cuban immigrant.
"...a bridge in the Florida Keys that authorities earlier ruled wasn't American soil"
No that I think about it, there's room for one more if you leave.
No=Now
Thanks for your hypothetical discussion, but there are real Cubans *today* who are escaping from Cuba and our response to them has very real electoral consequences. If conservatives were to block these refugees from gaining residency about 1 million Cuban-American votes for Republicans in Florida would vaporize instantly. This would give Florida to the Democrats and could very likely put Hillary in the White House.
We would like to let everyone in, but we can't, because everyone wants to come, so rules and lines have be formed by law, some of which are silly, but they are the law of the land, for those who seek to immigrate to the USA.
One of our laws clearly state that any Cuban National is immediately granted the status of a legal immigrant candidate, if they can only reach dry land on Florida soil.
I detest the wet foot/dry foot law, but I do understand it was meant to save lives, as an unholy compromise with Castro, to provide instant legal sanctuary for those people escaping enforced communism.
The reason I don't like the law, is due to the "wet foot" aspect.
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