Posted on 08/03/2006 7:37:36 AM PDT by Condor 63
Some exiled Cubans convicted of crimes are afraid that a turnover in Cuba may trigger orders for their deportation.
When Miami Cuban exile David Sebastian heard Fidel Castro ceded power, joy and fear gripped him. He was happy for the future of his country, but alarmed about his own future. "I was very concerned for myself," Sebastian, 40, told The Miami Herald. Sebastian, convicted in the 1990s on charges of selling stolen marine equipment, is among the more than 29,000 Cuban exiles who may have no choice but to return to Cuba if there's a leadership change and democracy reigns on the island.
The vast majority are criminal convicts who under laws approved by Congress in 1996 are subject to deportation. Removals have been put on hold because Cuba refuses to take back those exiles, and the United States has not pushed the issue in years.
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(2) They can't be sent back until Cuba has a democratic government anyway. Raul taking over as dictator doesn't qualify as democracy.
(3) This guy is just scared that he'll do time in Cuba under a democratic system.
The legal status of the folks involved is interesting, and brought up a difficult situation when they had served their sentences - numerous jurisdictions kept some of them locked up for several years. Courts finally ruled that they couldn't be held indefinitely.
Why wouldn't anyone want to go back to their country, if it is rid of it's dictarship?
For one thing it is still Cuba. LOL
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