So what you are saying - the same level of poverty, the same level of dictatorship, the same level of fear, the same persecution, the same possibility of torture - but you would allow immigrants from one, but not the other?
Yeah - that's real logical. When I said politics being different - I was referring to the title of their politics - a ruthless dictator is a ruthless dictator - regardless of the labels "we" put on them.
I fail to see how being from Cuba is any worse than being from some of the other dictatorial countries in Central America.
One of the distinctions you fail to recognize is geographic distance. Another is political clout. Can't do anything about the first, and little about the second.
It's simple to argue that a dictatorship is a dictatorship is a dictatorship. Finding a false equivalency makes a fine excuse for inaction.
You saw the same argument when the U.S. invaded Iraq: "why Iraq and not N. Korea?"
The fact of the matter is that Cuba is not Guatemala. Wishing the two are the same gets you nowhere.