... or even a makeshift raft made out of a:
1951 flatbed Chevy .....
or a 1959 Buick .....
or a 1949 Mercury station wagon.
Posted on 07/13/2008 12:16:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Organized and increasingly violent criminals are helping Cuban emigrants make their way into the United States through Mexico, prompting Havana and Mexico City to open negotiations on a treaty to try to control the human trafficking.
Those negotiations were given fresh impetus by an incident last month in which armed men intercepted a Mexican immigration service bus carrying 33 captured illegal Cuban immigrants in southern Mexico and made off with the Cubans.
Within days, 18 of the Cubans turned up at a U.S. Border Patrol station at Hidalgo, Texas, to apply for residency in the U.S.
Illegal immigration to the U.S. from Cuba has reached its highest level since a mass exodus of 35,000 Cubans in 1994. The land route to the U.S. through Mexico appears to be gaining popularity in the face of aggressive Coast Guard efforts to stop illegal immigration by sea.
"In the past years, we have observed increased smuggling and trafficking of undocumented Cubans transiting via Mexico into the United States," said Ricardo Alday, a spokesman at the Mexican Embassy in Washington.
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Why would they want to leave an island paradise with such a perfect government?
/sarc
“The land route to the U.S. through Mexico appears to be gaining popularity in the face of aggressive Coast Guard efforts to stop illegal immigration by sea.”
Of all the...
We let anybody and their nuclear bomb walk across our border, but if you’re a Cuban trying to escape a hellhole socialist paradise you’re not getting anywhere near our shores floating on your makeshift raft made of milk cartons.
... or even a makeshift raft made out of a:
1951 flatbed Chevy .....
or a 1959 Buick .....
or a 1949 Mercury station wagon.
Wow. Thanks for sharing those! :)
Looks like they traveled back in time 50 years to find something to use as a boat.
Call me crazy, but I think this is the kind of immigrant I want assimilated into our country as opposed to any drug lord/rapist/La Raza supporter who can walk hours through the desert with a jug of water. Of course it should be done legally, but I want to welcome these people!
Mexico claims to be a free and democratic nation. Why aren’t Cuban refugees from a communist country welcomed there I wonder?
Since, after Castro, the Cuban economy could no longer afford new cars, the 1950's cars in Cuba at the time of Castro's takeover have been kept running all these years.
Yes, I know. But Mexico really have no problem with Cubans entering the US illegally if they can sneak through their immigration control gauntlet.
I hate to sound callous and draconian, but it’s about time we started shooting the invaders as they cross the border. Because this is nothing less than an invasion, and the invaders are attacking, raping, and killing Americans on a grand scale.
That’s wild. Keep’em running and a new coat of paint with a flit gun every few years.
...begs the question; Are our elected officials too stupid or too corrupt to grasp the fact that if this insanity continues, our country is going to be swamped by inmigration from the third world?
I believe that this is because the Mexican government doesn't want other nationalities to siphon off any of the remittance money sent to Mexico.
“Of course it should be done legally, but I want to welcome these people!”
But the government doesn’t want these people, because ingenious, resourceful and highly adaptive people are very, very hard to CONTROL.
Your average La Raza thug is merely an instrument of control for the socialist government. The more of them, the better, so goes the socialist mindset.
ping
The Mexicans are passing themselves off as Cubans to exploit this loophole.
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