Posted on 01/13/2017 8:53:25 AM PST by usconservative
[Excerpted]
Cuban Jose Enrique Manreza, who sold his house and belongings to embark on a epic journey by plane, bus and on foot in pursuit of the American dream, is now stranded in a Mexican border town after Washington abruptly ended a lenient immigration policy.
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Why would anyone want to leave the workers’ paradise of Cuba. Everything there is free.
No, no ignorance on display here, there never should've been an EXCEPTION for Cuban's in the first place! The policy "if you make it here, you become a citizen" (after a year) has been ridiculous. It should've never been enacted, period.
And then there's the namecallers like you who haven't a clue what people are thinking when they post. So, you're a mind reader now and know that everyone who disagrees with you here on this thread is a racist imbecile?
Try again. There never should've been an exception for Cubans in the first place. PERIOD. There isn't for ANY OTHER NATIONALITY.
I’m about to turn 57.
Venezuela is as much a basket case as Cuba.
At one time I was in complete agreement with the policy of allowing Cubans entry. The more recent arrivals are not like their predecessors.
In your case, you're certainly devoid of the critical thinking skill and knowledge that there are white, brown and black Cubans.
Thanks for playing.
So are Chinese and North Koreans for example. Neither of which have the same EXCEPTION that Cuban's have that "if you make it here, you're a citizen."
Nice try, thanks for playing.
Only because an EXCEPTION was carved out for Cuba and not a single other Nationality.
Either stop it with the name calling or go look in the mirror because your comments haven't exactly been intelligent......
Now, if you have them able to go back and forth in tourism, I admit you can't leave the policy in place because you would have 90% of Cuba living here.
I think they can take the traditional methods to immigrate here still though.
Now if we reverse the Obama Cuba communist suck up with restrictions back on, then you can go back to the old laws again IMO.
So as long as they vote GOP it's ok if they come here?
Nice logic.
Why don't we apply the same logic to Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil and the rest of the South American countries while we're at it.
Hey, China's a brutal Communist dictatorship, so's North Korea. Let's have exceptions for them too (as long as they promise to vote Republican, nudge, wink ...)
Venezuela hasn’t had a Marxist in charge since 1958 or so.
Their descent into socialism is relatively recent.
Beyond that, I’m not prepared to trust any move by Obama this week, this past month, as having any kind of merit.
Missing the point, aren’t you? By about a mile.
One could argue Venezuela is worse given people are actually fighting over food, starving, disease is starting to run rampant, hospitals are out of supplies, etc..
If we're going to make exceptions for Communist gulags, we're then obligated to add North Korea to the list of countries on the exception list.
Then where does it stop?
Not to be 13 and kinda tangential but once i was listening to talkradio or some such nonsense and some wack job said something about population and it led me to calculate the land surface area of the earth (1/4)*4*pi*r^2 I think is derivative of spherical volume and I used a radius r of 4081 approximately I got A = 209,181,286.16 square miles of surface to which I'm lead to believe 0.25 * A = 52,285,321 is land probably which half is usable/livable that gives us about 25 million square miles on this here now earth. The big island, Hawaii, Hawaii is 4000sq miles - tiny.
The Google says : The total land surface area of Earth is about 57,308,738 square miles, of which about 33% is desert and about 24% is mountainous.
Subtracting this uninhabitable 57% (32,665,981 mi2) from the total land area leaves 24,642,757 square miles or 15.77 billion acres of habitable land.
hmm we seem to checkjout now on to Texas how big is that state? Survey says 268,597 mi² of which zero is habitable just kidding - Texas is a place I've been looking forward to visiting since I was a kid and read Texas, just haven't gotten around to as I also read Mitchner's Hawaii.
Back to myself imposed story problem let us say the population of the world is - holy jeepers its upto 7 billion - uh oh watch out Texas.
1 square mile has 3,098,000 square yards said another increasingly scary way.
Most Gracious Chairman Mullah Obama has allotted each person 1 obama phone and they get 3 square yards in texas. Do they all fit (plumbing not included)? Okay doing math in a post is hella risky but I'm kinda committed or should be maybe. So 3 million => 3e6 square yards/per square mile multiply that by the 268,597 square miles that make up Texas and divide by the number 3 sq yards/person as decreed by soon to be gone Chairman Mullah Obama - 3 shall be the number
-- yada yada yada everything cancels except persons yikes thats a big number I get 277.3 billion people.
Sorry Texas looks like there is still room in that mitten - don't be so greedy.
What have we learned?
Since Mr. Manreza. is now an illegal alien in Mexico, I am sure the Mexican Government will do the right thing and declare him a “Dreamer” and allow him to live there forever while drawing benefits from the public treasury.
NOT!!
oh, yes ... whatever was I thinking !?!?!?!?!
We should have let that murderous thug Fidel just execute ALL of them, not just a few hundred or a few thousand. And now, by the good grace of Barack, those who DO manage all the risk of getting here will be sent back to be executed. Probably together with their families. Great plan. Marvelous. Just what you want. Perfect. Brilliant.
I have lived in Miami for 25 years, know all about Cubans.
They hate the rest of the hispanics and the rest of the hispanics hate them.
That would be because most Cubans work, don’t take welfare, are eligible for citizenship or a green card, and are right wing.
Trump will undo this outrage by the petty little communist bitch Hussein Obama.
Obama is simply propping the Cuban slave economy while inviting here immigrants that are islamic terrorists or welfare communists.
the Cubans are honest hard workers, mostly voting GOP.
Obama is a racist
Obama is simply propping the Cuban slave economy while inviting here immigrants that are islamic terrorists or welfare communists.
the Cubans are honest hard workers, mostly voting GOP.
Obama is a racist
You weren't.
We should have let that murderous thug Fidel just execute ALL of them, not just a few hundred or a few thousand.
By your reasoning, we should do the same for all Chinese and North Koreans (among others.) Brilliant! Won't be long before we don't have a nation or cultural identity left if you had your way.
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