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Sen. Marco Rubio rips into yo-yo ‘refugees’ on welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid who constantly travel back to Cuba
Translated excerpt with translator’s comments:
From our Bureau of Overly Flexible Definitions with some assistance from our Bureau of Cuban Conundrums
Finally, someone in Washington DC has asked a question that needed to be asked many years ago. Why do so many Cuban “refugees” keep returning to the country from which they fled?
At issue is the very definition of the “refugee” status granted to these Cubans by the U.S., which makes them eligible for welfare, food stamps, and Medicaid, privileges not granted to other immigrants.
Ironically, Senator Rubio asked this question to Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, who, like himself, is also a Cuban. Mayorkas did not attempt to answer the question, but said he would look into this conundrum.
US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) questioned the situation of Cubans who are welcomed as refugees in the United States and then travel to Cuba, a country from which they supposedly fled political persecution.
His remarks came Wednesday, Nov. 8, during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Biden administration’s request for additional funds to quickly process migrants who enter the country illegally.
Addressing the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, the senator raised the case of Cubans who acquire refugee status in the United States and a year later are on vacation in Cuba, a country from which they supposedly fled for political reasons.
“If you are fleeing persecution, how can it be that a year later you are spending your summers in Cuba? How can it be that less than a year later you are traveling, say, 6 to 8 times a year to Cuba? I have never heard of people fleeing persecution and returning to one place repeatedly. “There is a problem here, right?” Rubio asked Mayorkas.
Referring to the case of Cuban refugees, the Republican senator from Florida stated that “if you come from Cuba it is presumed that you are fleeing political persecution,” which is why the figure of “credible fear” exists during the interview they were given. makes Cuban asylum seekers.
“Once you are here, you are supposed to be here because you are a refugee fleeing persecution and you have a number of benefits at a minimum. “If a year later you are here as a refugee, but you return to Cuba six times, shouldn’t you at least lose your refugee status?” Rubio asked the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
The question, which is on the minds of a good part of the Cuban exile, left Mayorkas without an answer, who promised Rubio that he would study the matter and offer him an answer based on the legal arguments surrounding the issue.
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Video of Rubio’s questioning refugees discussed at 4:17 mark
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Refugees should not be on welfare, food stamps nor Medicaid at all. They are not citizens. Many are here to be parasites living off assistance they should not be able to get. Most of those currently streaming over our borders and already here fit in this category.
Wow! This is the first I have heard of Cuban refugees vacationing in Cuba.
Couple threads back posted about Colombia’s national computer system hacked exposing names of confidential informants and DEA agents working in Colombia:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/colombia/article281471943.html
Now the same hacked Colombian system:
Huge cyber leak offers new proof of how Maduro has turned Venezuela into a narco-state
https://news.yahoo.com/huge-cyber-leak-offers-proof-130000650.html
Excerpt:
The role of the military in relation to the drug trade has shifted from looking the other way in exchange for taking bribes to one of active player, according to leaked documents obtained by the Herald and its reporting partners, bolstered by interviews with former members of the Caracas regime, U.S. officials and others.
“They are the ones that are in charge now, directly involved in the transportation of cocaine, the distribution of cocaine, not only to the United States, but also to Europe,” Mike Vigil, former chief of International Operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said of the Venezuelan military.
This reality is part of the backdrop to what could conceivably be a thaw in frigid relations between the United States and Venezuela.
In hopes of fostering stability in Venezuela, the Biden administration this past month offered an easing of sanctions contingent on President Nicolás Maduro holding free and fair elections, which for him would be a first. The initiative comes after a year in which Venezuelans, driven by social and economic upheaval, have poured into the United States, seeking asylum after making a long trek over land and across the Rio Grande. The influx has strained immigration and social services.
Biden’s move has outraged some Republicans, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who called it “granting legitimacy to a criminal dictatorship.”
This article is being published in conjunction with the “NarcoFiles: The New Criminal Order,” a transnational journalistic investigation into global organized crime, its innovations, its tentacles, and those who fight it.
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Link to NarcoFiles:
https://www.occrp.org/en/narcofiles-the-new-criminal-order/