Posted on 01/07/2016 3:01:46 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Next Tuesday is a day many Cuban migrants in Costa Rica have been waiting for ever since they left the island to try to reach the United States and got stuck at the border with Nicaragua. The Costa Rican government announced that the first flight of Cuban migrants will leave on Jan. 12 for El Salvador - the first stop on their journey north - out of Daniel Oduber International Airport in Liberia.
Under an agreement among Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and the U.N. International Organization for Migration, Cubans with transit visas in Costa Rica - nearly 8,000 people - will be allowed to buy a $555 ticket that includes transportation from the shelter where they are staying to the airport, a chartered flight to El Salvador, and then non-stop bus transportation with food through Guatemala and into Mexico.
Once in Mexico, each Cuban migrant will be granted a 20-day temporary transit visa at no cost. But they will be on their own for reaching the U.S. border, said the IOM's Costa Rica director, Roland de Wilde.
Foreign Minister Manuel Gonzalez stressed that the Jan. 12 airlift will be a "test flight" and would not guarantee any additional flights until regional leaders meet to assess its success sometime before Jan. 18. If all goes well, additional charter flights will be organized.
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We should want Cubans here!
Why here? How about flying them back to the new and improved cuba courtesy of the bamster?
Because they are mostly young, hard working and CHRISTIAN!
We don’t need more immigration, we’ve got millions of unemployed and it’s time for these countries (including Cuba) to solve their own problems.
We don’t need more immigration, we’ve got millions of unemployed and it’s time for these countries (including Cuba) to solve their own problems.
The Costa Ricans sure don’t want them.
It seems that all those countries don’t want them, they just want to shuffle them along the way to the U.S.A.
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