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Baseball agent arrested on human trafficking charges
Yahoo! News ^ | 2016-02-19 | Miami (AFP)

Posted on 02/19/2016 4:36:44 PM PST by the_Watchman

Miami (AFP) - Bart Hernandez, a Miami-based agent for several Major League Baseball players from Cuba, was arrested Friday after a federal grand jury indicted him on human trafficking charges.

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Documents obtained by Major League Baseball's website say that Seattle Mariners outfielder Leonys Martin was among the players Hernandez conspired to smuggle out of Cuba, the Communist island nation working to try and normalize relations with their US political rivals.

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TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: humantrafficking; sports
So helping people escape Cuba is now illegal!?
1 posted on 02/19/2016 4:36:44 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: the_Watchman

Legally, we have to leave bo there, I guess.


2 posted on 02/19/2016 4:42:02 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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3 posted on 02/19/2016 4:45:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: the_Watchman
Probably one of the concessions Obama had to agree to in order to "normalize" relations with Cuba's Castro brothers. No more accepting Cubans as political asylum seekers escaping Communist rule.

We must remember under Obama's Presidency America must always be the one to humble themselves for their sins of the past.

4 posted on 02/19/2016 4:50:56 PM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: the_Watchman

It’s trafficking even if the person wants to leave Cuba, and there is an agreement to that effect?


5 posted on 02/19/2016 5:30:06 PM PST by Ready4Freddy
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To: the_Watchman

Yet Syrians are ‘refugees.’


6 posted on 02/19/2016 5:34:22 PM PST by piasa
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To: the_Watchman

Lets say a small boy in Miami gets swarmed by federal agents and sent back to Cuba? Is that human trafficking?


7 posted on 02/19/2016 5:48:28 PM PST by lacrew
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To: the_Watchman

Under Obama, helping someone escape Communism is “human trafficking,” but Planned Parenthood aiding child-sex pimps is not.


8 posted on 02/19/2016 6:01:50 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.)
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