On the other hand, 36 Cubans just flew in and landed at Key West Airport not three hours ago.
That's right, they just flew in and landed. And bear in mind, Key West is a major Coast Guard/Navy base. I am daily overflown by F/A-18 Hornets and, today, a couple of CH-47 Sea Chinooks (at least they looked like Chinooks to me) on my way to work. On a good day, I get to see the real Tops Guns -- elderly F-14 Tomcats out stretching their legs in the Caribbean sun (the Tom is an ancient plane, at least by Lockheed "Raptor" standards. She's also far more beautiful, more capable, and more deadly, than the pissant "Super" Hornets who have been tasked to replace her).
Yet the first "warning" we enjoyed was when these 36 Cubans trundled off their passenger plane and started shouting, "Viva America!!" Surprise, y'all -- the Cubans are here. Did somebody forget to check the flight manifest? Happens all the freakin' time.
Thank God they were refugees. Thank God (for their sakes) they escaped Cuba, hit the airfield with "dry feet", and are therefore now US Citizens.
I like the Cubans. They're more American than most Americans, once they make it here.
But, technically, if we see them coming, we're obliged to turn them away before they get here. We're not supposed to find out about their unscheduled joy rides when they tramp out on the tarmac singing, "God bless America, and brother can you spare a Cervesa!!"
Pardon me if I remain unimpressed with US Border Security. I rather think that 50,000 or so US Troops could make a big impression along our undefended Borders. God knows we could spare to bring them home from so-called overseas "allies" in defense of whom we spend billions of dollars, and who don't appreciate us anyway.