[WoofDog123]

I am slow...what is the political motivation for this? These folks literally risk their lives from drowning, and are begin sent back to certain prison in a police state.

Why doesn't the bush admin allow them to land?

[Nachum]

It is the law: Wet feet, dry feet.

If they catch them in the water, they go back. If they make it to shore, they can stay. It's been that way for years.

[The Bronze Titan]

Yes. Our United States Coast Guard under the direction and policy of the United States executive branch is 'handing over' those people trying to escape Castro's prison island.

If the Castro regime catches you trying to flee over their 'water wall', they will shoot and/or try to capture you and put you in prison.

Imagine what would the opinion would be if the same were to have happened (i.e. U.S. / Nato / West German policy) when those escaping over the Berlin Wall had been handed over back to the East German border guards.