Posted on 04/17/2006 9:22:42 AM PDT by mlc9852
Not surprised.
This is a recent trend but no big secret. We've been getting boatloads of Cubans through the Dominican Republic, across the Mona Passage (90 mile trip also) and into Puerto Rico.
Otherwise, to compare a totalitarian regime with one of the strongest democracies in Latin America is silly.
Most democratic nations in Europe and Latin America have elected socialists; they have also booted them out of office when they got tired of the socialists. BFD
"Cuban immigrants are NOT illegals. Elian should never have been sent back"
Agreed. The dry foot policy applies to Puerto Rico. I was trying to point out an alternate route into the U.S. for Cubans.
Don't make fun of me...I went to public schooling!
HA-HA
So did I.
I are a gud speler, to.
;^)
And, this scenario isn't even taken into account what is happening in Central America.
I lived in South Florida for 2.5 years until late 2000. This sort of stuff was/is a daily occurance, but usually does not receive any more than passing local news coverage. It seems that these fast boats can approach our shores, drop off their cargo, and disappear again, almost with impunity. Many of them bring drugs, not refugees. One wonders how many of them deliver their cargo, depart, and are never detected. The few that are intercepted usually make for quite interesting reading in the local morning papers.
One day on my way to work (while I was still living down there), I heard on the news that 12 Cubans had come ashore the previous evening in an area of Miami Beach, a bit south of Hollywood. When I got to work, one of my co-workers told us that he had been having drinks at a beach-front bar right where they came ashore. He had to laugh when he heard on the news that 12 refugees had come ahsore. He said that right when they came ashore, but before any police had arrived, he had counted at least 15 of them. That means that by the time law enforcement arrived, at least 3 of the refugees had already vanished in the woodwork. They didn't wait around for government officials.
One has to wonder about how many more of these refugees do the same thing, EACH DAY, when they come ashore in South Florida.
Things that make you go "hmmmm....."
I don't.
I don't either. Chavez has won several national elections.
When the majority of Venezuelans get tired of him, they will vote him out.
Threre is a difference between democracies in Latin America and Europe choosing socialist leaders and totalitarian states. Apples and oranges.
Sounds more like a 2000 or later college graduate.
I've lived in FL virtually my whole life so I know what a wacky dyanmic there is here.
ONce, when coming back from the Keys I was stopped at a checkpoint that was settup specifically for the purpose of catching cuban refugees. We come over a brigde and there must have been 20 Florida STate Trooper squad cars. They were unconcerned about the open cooler that was full of beer, they were looking for one thing. This was in the 80s when the refugees were pouring in.
(Wasn't drinking the beer, but the cooler was open and I was so stunned at the sight of all these cop cars I didn't even think to close it)
Vote him out? -- that is if he still allows elections by that time... or an honest candidate could survive long enough to be elected in an honest, non-Jimmy Carter-mediated election. Too many variables.
The dirt bag democrat social workers probably told them that before they got out of the water.
Refugees from despotic communist states do not equal refugees from democratic capitalist states; that may be a hard concept for the socialist one-worlders who support a zero border policy; but, its an easy one for any one who still has shares traditional American values. Having said that I agree that all should be subject to a well ordered immigration system, and that entering the US should not be a given, but rather earned through exemplary lawful behavior.
"Fleeing oppresion from a tyrannical dictatorial government"
Then we should have let the Haitans who fled the oppressive Duvalier,Cedras and Aristide regimes,all of who employed gangster tactics to stay in power.
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