Posted on 03/01/2006 9:12:25 AM PST by NonValueAdded
MIAMI — A judge has ordered federal officials to "use their best efforts" to help 15 Cubans return to the United States, weeks after they reached an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys but were sent back to their homeland.
While U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno sympathized with the difficulty the U.S. Coast Guard faces in making split-second decisions at sea, he wrote, "those Cuban refugees who reached American soil in early January 2006 were removed to Cuba illegally."
Under the government's policy, Cubans who reach U.S. soil are generally allowed to stay, while those stopped at sea are sent back.
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It was unclear Tuesday whether Cuban President Fidel Castro would allow the 15 to return to the United States from the communist island.
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Florida ping request, please
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I wonder... why the federal hard line against Cuban immigrants, and such a soft touch with Mexican ones?
Why does the Coast Guard have jurisdiction to 'decide' who stays and who doesnt stay when they find them on U.S. property???
I thought this would be the decision of U.S. Immigration?
Coast Guard should 'detain' and hold anyone they deem suspect of illegally entering this country, but not 'decide' whether they stay or not once they are sitting on U.S. property. (I presume the bridge was
"U.S." property, if not, then who's country's property was it).
The Cuban double standard is sickening.
The judge is right
Why?
The Cuban double standard is sickening.
The double standard is right.
We have sent US troops to clean up Haiti twice in the last decade, but we have not send any US troops to clean up Cuba recently.
We should abolish the double standard. Let's take out Castro and introduce democratic elections in Cuba, just like we took out Aristide and introduced democratic elections in Haiti.
Most Cubans are black.
Yeah, what the others have said. Why do you play the race card? The Hatians aren't under a multi-decade Communist dictatorship (despite the best efforts of Jimmah). We have put our soldiers in harm's way at least twice to give the Haitians self rule. There IS immigration from Haiti to the US but not from Cuba. By all means, let's eliminate the double standard.
I thought this would be the decision of U.S. Immigration?
I suspect that they were deemed to have not set foot in the US. Therefore I don't think they even got an immigration hearing. They weren't brought into the US and processed. They were merely taken back to Cuba.
If they aren't comming in through official channels, and the Coast Guard didn't think they had set foot on US soil, why would it be an immigration issue rather than an issue for the Coars Guard?
"We should abolish the double standard. Let's take out Castro and introduce democratic elections in Cuba, just like we took out Aristide and introduced democratic elections in Haiti."
I think we should just let the old geezer die of old age and then see what happens. We have enough problems with Iraq and Afghanistan right now. We need to take care of those first. Our military has enough on it's plate. Personally we should never have gotten involved in that hell-hole called Haiti and we shouldn't repeat that kind of mistake by screwing around with Cuba. I think it would be best, until the War on Terror is over, to suspend all amnesty/refugee laws and send all Cuban, Mexican, Central & South American nationals back. If we don't like the govts that we're sending them back to, then we can send them back with an AK-47, an RPG-7, and a sackfull of hand-grenades salvaged from Iraq so they can take care of the problem themselves.
and have a influx so great, many of are whom are saddled with some of the highest rates of t.b,AIDS and every other 3rd world diseases; it would bankrupt the florida health care system and the race-baiters would be in heaven screaming about unfair treatment or less than adquate attention; and to top it off "frenchy Kerry" would be there hustling and speaking french to get votes for 2008
Cubans demand higher wages maybe.
Easy, Cuban immigrants usually don't vote until they become US citizens, and then they tend to vote Republican.
One word: BUSH
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