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Let’s grab a cab to the United States
MSNBC ^ | 06/08/06 | The Associated Press

Posted on 06/08/2005 10:29:49 AM PDT by RS



A vintage blue taxicab converted into a seagoing vessel and carrying several Cuban immigrants was intercepted Tuesday off Key West by the Coast Guard, a television station reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anticommunist; cubalibre; cuban; cubanrefugees; illegal; immigrant; refugeesnotillegals
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To: g33k355
You've obviously never in lived in South Florida. The Cuban American community has their own, well-funded social support network that helps folks like these get citizenship and jobs.

Cubans aren't Mexicans my friend.

21 posted on 06/08/2005 10:47:46 AM PDT by Clemenza (The Ice Cream Truck in my Neighborhood Plays Helter Skelter)
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To: cweese

they have made multiple crafts most sink or partially sink the best was the school bus thats roof fold down to make pontoons.


22 posted on 06/08/2005 10:49:56 AM PDT by Vaquero (an armed society is a polite society (Heinlien).)
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To: Dallas59

"Cuba is a worthless country...so are the majority of it's inhabitants....with the exception of a few."

The Cubans I met in Florida are just itching to get back - after learning their Capitalist skills here, when Castro finally dies and things open up, many will go back and the country will change with a speed that will astound.


23 posted on 06/08/2005 10:50:11 AM PDT by RS (Just because they are out to get him, it doesn't mean he's not guilty.)
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To: RS

24 posted on 06/08/2005 10:52:44 AM PDT by petercooper (Put Mark Levin on the Supreme Court.)
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To: RS
I'm thinking that they may have made it if they hadn't painted it fluorescent blue. Gray primer would have been much better.
25 posted on 06/08/2005 10:52:58 AM PDT by wyattearp (The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
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To: petercooper

Peter, is that a real picture? I saw that they sunk one of those last week.

What a waste of time and talent, eh?


26 posted on 06/08/2005 10:54:23 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Howlin
Yes, you have to hand it to them- they are ingenious.
27 posted on 06/08/2005 10:58:01 AM PDT by petercooper (Put Mark Levin on the Supreme Court.)
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To: petercooper

Freedom looks mighty damn good.


28 posted on 06/08/2005 10:58:45 AM PDT by Howlin (Up or down on Janice Brown!)
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To: Clemenza

You're right, never been to Florida. I've rusted up in the great Pacific Northwet.... It's nice that they are doing that , but that is a very small corner. And are all of these people actually finding this little onclave?

This is not happening all over the US, look at the whole Pacific coast. They come up to work then head back to Mexico and their families.


29 posted on 06/08/2005 10:58:50 AM PDT by g33k355 ("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
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To: g33k355

Cuban immigration peaked in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the middle and upper classes left in droves. Since then, flight out of Cuba has varied (Mariel in 1980 being the exception). The few Cubans who settle in this country go to South Florida. Even those who wind up in other parts of the country eventually wind up in Florida.


30 posted on 06/08/2005 11:02:02 AM PDT by Clemenza (The Ice Cream Truck in my Neighborhood Plays Helter Skelter)
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To: RS

This has to be wrong...my friend Ed Azner assures me that Cuba is a Socialist paradise where every man is a king! Why would these people be leaving it?


31 posted on 06/08/2005 11:45:22 AM PDT by 50sDad ( ST3d - Star Trek Tri-D Chess! http://my.oh.voyager.net/~abartmes)
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To: g33k355

I'm not talking about having them stay here. Just train them, equip them, and send them off to re-take their country -- for themselves.


32 posted on 06/08/2005 12:11:46 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Dallas59
Cuba is a worthless country...so are the majority of it's inhabitants....with the exception of a few.

Spoken like a true idiot. It is a beautiful island with a wealth of natural resourses... oil, nickle, gold, plenty of rainfal, rich soil, mountains, beaches, great snorkling and fishing, art and music, and a literate population. So much potential, so little wealth, thanks to Castro.

33 posted on 06/08/2005 12:16:18 PM PDT by bukkdems ("My aunt was very frugal" - Benon Savon)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

well, that changews things! that I can go for!!!


34 posted on 06/08/2005 12:19:06 PM PDT by g33k355 ("He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.")
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To: g33k355

I'd love to see the tab for what we spend annually on the combination of "intercepting" and repatriating these people, and on our lame efforts to isolate and destabilize the Castro regime. I'm quite sure that the same amount of money, invested in people like this, would be plenty to get the job done in a very short time.


35 posted on 06/08/2005 12:24:09 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: RS

Anyone that resourceful is welcome in the US, imho. Let'em in.


36 posted on 06/08/2005 12:43:48 PM PDT by wingnutx (Seabees Can Do!)
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To: RS

Weren't you supposed to turn left back there?


37 posted on 06/08/2005 12:45:41 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: paul51

If they turned LEFT(ist) they would have gone back home :-)


38 posted on 06/08/2005 12:50:08 PM PDT by RS (Just because they are out to get him, it doesn't mean he's not guilty.)
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To: RS
To EVERYONE..ANYWHERE.. that thinks America is a bad place that spreads evil in the world.

There is no other country in this world people will get on a rickety "CabRaft" to get to. This isn't a first...there have been floating "JeepRafts" and various other "CarRafts" from Cuba before.

In one day there's news of this and the guy from South Africa that bum rushes as a stowaway, to get here and dies in the process.

I don't think anyone is going to these extreme measures to get to France?

39 posted on 06/08/2005 12:57:31 PM PDT by soundandvision
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To: 50sDad
This has to be wrong...my friend Ed Azner assures me that Cuba is a Socialist paradise where every man is a king! Why would these people be leaving it?

It's shattering my belief in the good word of 'Lou Grant' as well.

40 posted on 06/08/2005 12:58:40 PM PDT by soundandvision
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