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Cubans Film Crowded Sea Voyage to Florida, Running into Other ‘Rafters’ Along the Way
breitbart.com ^ | 10/20/2022 | Frances Martel

Posted on 10/20/2022 9:04:00 AM PDT by rktman

The balseros, or “rafters,” as Cubans refer to them, are part of a growing exodus of Cubans feeling communism and its inevitable results: mass food shortages, a growing electricity crisis, uncontrolled spread of disease, violent government repression, and a total lack of self-determination.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: doh
Uh, guess they missed the memo about the U.S. turning quickly in to cuba north? Based on those concerns in the paragraph. At least in some instances. Fire away!
1 posted on 10/20/2022 9:04:00 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

We should send all Cubans home, armed if need be and let them fix their own country instead of invading ours.


2 posted on 10/20/2022 9:05:53 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: rktman

Invasion.


3 posted on 10/20/2022 9:07:18 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Reno89519

“Cubans remain a majority Republican ethnic group and like the majority of Republicans throughout the country, they are supportive of President Trump and his administration’s approach to governing,” said Guillermo Grenier, the principal investigator on the project and chair of the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies in the Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, the primary sponsor of the poll. “He receives high marks on handling all of the measured key national issues as well as his handling of Cuba policy and will receive a strong majority of the Cuban-American vote on Election Day.”

https://news.fiu.edu/2020/fiu-cuba-poll-most-cuban-americans-support-president-trump-and-his-policies,-will-vote-to-re-elect-him


4 posted on 10/20/2022 9:11:23 AM PDT by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: BenLurkin

Most Cuban American voters identify as Republican in 2020

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/02/most-cuban-american-voters-identify-as-republican-in-2020/


5 posted on 10/20/2022 9:12:16 AM PDT by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: rktman

Cubans swing Florida to Trump

————————https://www.as-coa.org/articles/chart-how-us-latinos-voted-2020-presidential-election-————————

Thursday, November 5, 2020
Chart: How U.S. Latinos Voted in the 2020 Presidential Election

By
Holly K. Sonneland
There’s a lot more to see when you look beyond Florida.

Talk about the Latino vote surged after incumbent President Donald Trump picked up Florida’s 29 electoral votes early on Tuesday evening. Indeed, the Cuban-American vote in Florida was decisive, breaking 56-41 for the Republican incumbent compared to an even 49-49 split among non-Cuban voters.


6 posted on 10/20/2022 9:14:27 AM PDT by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: rktman
They are fleeing "mass food shortages, a growing electricity crisis, uncontrolled spread of disease, violent government repression, and a total lack of self-determination."

Lo siento, damas y caballeros, but why are you coming here, exactly?

7 posted on 10/20/2022 9:16:06 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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8 posted on 10/20/2022 9:25:29 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: caww

Been through those straights many times. 🚤


9 posted on 10/20/2022 9:28:55 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: TexasGator

I don’t give a damn. They should go home and fix our country and not invade ours. Time to send all of these people back to Cuba, Haiti, Mexico, and so forth


10 posted on 10/20/2022 9:51:07 AM PDT by Reno89519 (FJB. Respect America, Embrace America, Buy American, Hire American.)
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To: Reno89519

——————Cubans Put DeSantis Into Office—————

Cuban voters make up roughly 6 percent of the total Florida vote, he said. According to an analysis Sopo performed of election results in heavily Cuban neighborhoods, he estimated that in 2016, the Cuban vote broke 57 percent for Trump and 40 percent for Clinton. Two years later, it went 66 for Ron DeSantis and 33 for Andrew Gillum, that is 2 to 1.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/scott-and-desantis-won-the-florida-election-but-cuban-american-voters-are-beginning-to-vote-democrat/2078297/


11 posted on 10/20/2022 10:00:14 AM PDT by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Reno89519

———Cubans Defeat Gore————

Gore won just 20 percent of the Cuban American vote in Florida in 2000, far below Bill Clinton’s tally of 35 percent four years earlier.


12 posted on 10/20/2022 10:04:14 AM PDT by TexasGator (!!!)
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To: Reno89519

We should send all Cubans home, armed if need be and let them fix their own country instead of invading ours.
............................

We did a half-assed attempt at that at Bay of Pigs in 1961.
We trained and equipped Cubans in Brigade 2506. Landed them and failed the artillery support via warships off the coast we promised.( thank you JFK)
Doomed to failure.


13 posted on 10/20/2022 10:27:33 AM PDT by Vinnie ( L g Brandon)
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To: rktman

More people fleeing to the eeeeeeeeeeeevil capitalist America I see. Dang Democrats need to get a handle on this!


14 posted on 10/20/2022 11:32:51 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Reno89519; All

We should send all Cubans home, armed if need be and let them fix their own country instead of invading ours.

I’d send all the illegal border crossers first!


15 posted on 10/20/2022 1:37:14 PM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: caww

Gay Sal Bank

All that was my old stomping grounds

Two strokes humming

Slamming

Yep


16 posted on 10/20/2022 1:41:23 PM PDT by wardaddy (Sound and Fury Republic now home to more than a few globalists who really love the mainstream media )
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