Posted on 08/03/2019 7:44:26 AM PDT by freeandfreezing
Ramón Saúl Sánchez, a Cuban pro-democracy leader who has been active in the struggle against communism for 50 years, recently received notice that the U.S. government denied his request for permanent residence in the country. If returned to the island, “they will execute me or put me in prison for the rest of my life,” Sánchez told Breitbart News.
Sánchez has been in the United States for 52 years. For decades, he has advocated for peaceful acts of resistance against the Castro regime – from hunger strikes to highway sit-ins to the iconic flotillas of the Democracy Movement, Sánchez’s organization, that have for years crossed into Cuban waters to make the point, Sánchez says, that “those waters are ours” on behalf of the refugee community.
He became perhaps most recognizable nationwide during the saga of Elián González, a Cuban boy rescued off the waters of Florida in 2000 whom the Castro regime demanded Washington return to the island, despite his mother dying on a raft trying to help him escape. Sánchez organized prayer vigils and human chains outside the home of González’s Miami relatives meant to keep then-President Bill Clinton’s Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from deporting the child. INS agents bludgeoned Sánchez in the head to get him out of the way when Attorney General Janet Reno gave the order to violently abduct González and return him to the communist regime.
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Most young people are woefully ignorant about what Cuba was like before the communists. Their government wasn't perfect, but before the communists Cuba was a modern, growing, and successful nation.
We need to speak up in defense of conservative voices - we will need them all in 2020!
The swamp is growing, not draining. You can’t drain a swamp with a straw it takes a ditch, a really big ditch. Come on Mr. President create a special commission/ agency to reduce the size of the government and the federal workforce. Do it now while the economy can absorb the influx. Do it now when it will show a serious approach to the national debt. Do it now while the union and democrat opposition can be defeated in court, at least some times. DO IT NOW, it is one of the most important campaign promises you made.
The entire State Department needs to be put up against a wall and SHOT as enemies of the Republic.
State has been nothing but a hot bed and training ground for Communists, Fascists, Socialists, and Progressives since 1917.
Infiltrated by Soviet Communists since Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and made worse under Franklin Roosevelt.
Outrageous.
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