Posted on 02/22/2016 9:36:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
More than 100 Cuban migrants from among the 1,300 stranded in Panama on Sunday received immigration permits that early next week will allow them to travel legally to Mexico, where they will be able to continue their land journey to the United States.
This is the first group to resume their trek from Panama to the United States after Costa Rica closed its border in December saying it was unable to continue housing the more than 7,000 Cubans who were also trying to make it to the United States but who had been stranded there after being denied passage through Nicaragua.
A bus - costing $13.50 per person - will await them in Ciudad Juarez, where the authorities will see to it that they arrive in El Paso, Texas, Isabel Cristina Perez, one of the migrants, told EFE.
Once they get to Ciudad Juarez, the Cubans will receive a visitors document as a humanitarian gesture giving them 20 days to cross into the United States, an official with the Mexican National Immigration Institute told EFE last Thursday.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
“”Mariel - The Sequel””
I was thinking of that and then “Scarface” came to mind.....
Let me guess! This 'humanitarian gesture' flew out of bast@rd obama's hole in the face. And whose paying for their room and board once they arrive? And for how long? And then where are they going to finally end up. (in whose city??)
Oh of course, and when do we get a break, not having to support them for the rest of their lives?
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