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Five Cuban rafters die at sea in attempt to leave country

Not even the threat of coronavirus deter Cuban rafters for trying to escape from the Castroit tyrannical regime virus,
How many mexicans, from the capitalist country, trying to escape to US? Interesting to know...
 
Coast Guard interdicts 22 Cuban migrants at Cay Sal Bank

Nov 2nd, 2020

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A Coast Guard Cutter Isaac Mayo (WPC-1112) small boat crew transfers Cuban migrants standing on Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas, Oct. 28, 2020. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Josh Forsyth.

MIAMI — The Coast Guard assisted Bahamian authorities in interdicting 22 Cuban migrants at Cay Sal Bank, Bahamas, Wednesday.

A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew located 22 Cuban migrants on land at Cay Sal Bank.

The Coast Guard Cutter Isaac Mayo (WPC-1112) crew embarked the 21 adult Cuban males and one adult female and safely transferred one migrant to the Coast Guard Cutter Robert Yered (WPC-1104) crew.
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The name Cay Sal (Cayo de Sal )was given by the Spanish navigators because is a large salt pond on it. Cubans rafters have been stranded on it before and rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard that monitor it and other nearby cays. Lucky they were rescued, but at the same time not too lucky since most of the Cubans intercepted on Bahamian territory are returned to the island of Dr. Castro almost expeditiously.
 
Those Cubans rafters certainly would be quarantine, and spend a couple of week in the Bahamas, before sent back to Cuba. At least they will be provided with food, shelter and medical attention, free of charge. They are more afraid of their well-being under the Castroit tyrannical regime than the China coronavirus. They keep escaping from the regime hell-hole, no matter what the consequences.
 
Cuban migrants make Florida Keys landing in a small boat, but they’re likely not staying
Cuban migrants arrive in Florida Keys | Miami Herald

BY DAVID GOODHUE

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A group of migrants from Cuba arrived in the Florida Keys early Monday morning. They landed in Grassy Key, which is just north of the Middle Keys city of Marathon, after arriving off shore in small boat, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The four men and two women are in federal custody, Border Patrol Agent Adam Hoffner said. They will likely be sent back to Cuba.

Until early 2017, people from Cuba who set foot on U.S. soil would be allowed to stay in the country and apply for permanent residency after a year. Those caught at sea were taken back to Cuba.

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A boat floats off shore of Grassy Key in the Florida Keys Monday morning, Nov. 30, 2020. Six people from Cuba arrived in the Keys on the vessel. U.S. Border Patrol

However, the Obama administration ended that protocol, dubbed “wet-foot, dry-foot,” because it had reestablished diplomatic ties with the Castro regime. It was one of the administration’s final foreign policy decisions. Cubans are now subject to the same immigration and visa rules as people from other nations.
Because the coronavirus, they be quarantined until they are debriefed by U.S. federal authorities. Even during the coronavirus lockdown Cubans continue to escape from the hell hole island of Cuba. They have a slim chance to remain in the U.S.
 
The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that only one in four rafters (balseros) who have attempted to escape in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, have been successful, while others have been capture and many have died. Dr. Lago estimated the number of balseros dead at 77,833 until 2003. The extrapolation of his statistics to 2020, would yield over 100,000 dead.
 
Cuban migrants landed in Key West on New Year’s Day, and now face a return

A group of Cuban migrants made landfall in Key West on New Year’s Day | FL Keys News

BY GWEN FILOSA
JANUARY 04, 2021

Twelve Cuban migrants landed in Key West late New Year’s Day in a homemade boat that U.S. Border Patrol agents said was in poor condition.

“Their vessel was overloaded and unsafe for travel,” Chief Patrol Agent Thomas G. Martin, of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Miami Sector, said on Twitter. “This type of journey from Cuba is dangerous!”

The 12 men made landfall in Key West at about 11:30 p.m. Jan. 1. They were taken into custody by Border Patrol.

“The subjects were processed for removal proceedings and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Removal Operations,” said Border Patrol Agent Adam Hoffner.
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Photo of the homemade boat.

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A small motor at the back of this Cuban chug powered the propeller that apparently made the roughly 100-mile journey across the Florida Straits. Constructed of sheet metal, some fiberglass and a wooden frame, the vessel carried 33 men ranging in age from 22 to 50 years old, according to one of the 12 migrants captured by the Key West Police Department. All 12 were transferred to the custody of the Customs and Border Patrol.
Photos by ROB O’NEAL/The Citizen

These 33 Cuban rafters are very lucky that they made it to Key West in this unworthy sea makeshift boat. Hopefully the 12 captured will be given the opportunity to apply for asylum.
 
Coast Guard repatriates 12 migrants to Cuba
Coast Guard repatriates 12 migrants to Cuba | Coast Guard News

Jan 11th, 2021 · 0 Comment

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A 21-foot blue chug vessel floating approximately 8 miles east of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Jan. 11, 2021. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)

MIAMI — Coast Guard crews repatriated 12 adult males to Cabanas, Cuba, Monday, after stopping a voyage approximately 8 miles east of Fort Lauderdale.

Coast Guard Station Fort Lauderdale 33-foot Special Purpose Craft-Law Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection crews arrived on scene, Friday, and safely brought the people aboard due to safety of life at sea. They were later transferred to Coast Guard Cutter Issac Mayo for repatriation.

A good Samaritan alerted Sector Miami Command Center watchstanders of a crowded 21-foot vessel. Watchstanders launched the station crew and Coast Guard Cutter Manatee to investigate the report.

“The crew and I are extremely pleased with the outcome of the recent joint interdiction with our shipmates from Station Fort Lauderdale,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Luke Brandenburg, Cutter Manatee boarding officer. “Sector Miami’s readiness posture and increased maritime domain awareness allowed for a prompt and safe interdiction, preserving both the safety of life at sea and the integrity of our maritime borders.”
Even during the coronavirus lockdown Cubans continue to escape from the hell hole island of Cuba. They have a slim chance to remain in the U.S. They are more afraid of their well-being under the Castroit tyrannical regime than the China coronavirus. They keep escaping from the regime hell-hole, no matter what the consequences.
 
Makeshift vessel found off Florida coast as search goes on for 10 Cuban migrants
Makeshift vessel found off Florida coast as search goes on for 10 Cuban migrants - ABC News

A separate search for six people missing off the Florida coast was suspended.

ByBill Hutchinson
February 15, 2021,

U.S. Coast Guard officials said there were no signs of 10 Cuban migrants believed to be on a rickety homemade boat last seen floating in the water off the Florida Keys.

As the search for the missing migrants continued on Monday, the Coast Guard announced that it has suspended a second ocean rescue effort for six people who also vanished over the weekend off the Florida coast.

Both searches began on Friday.

On Sunday evening, the Coast Guard announced on Twitter that a good Samaritan boater found a "six-foot makeshift vessel" floating in the water empty about eight miles south of Long Key, Florida. Photos of the vessel were posted on the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami's Twitter page. The vessel appeared to be crudely constructed and made out of Styrofoam blocks and wood.

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Unfortunate this time the Coast Gard was not able to rescue the 10 Cuban rafters. The death toll of rafters trying to escape in rickety raft keeps climbing. Desperate people do desperate things. And if socialism and communism was as nice in Cuba as lefties have you believe, Cuban citizens would not be trying to escape on makeshift rafts.
 
The mainstream media bias continues to talk about how wonderful is life in Cuba, at the same time that these tragedies are happening. Lefties try to paint the Castros’ regime as a wonderful place to live, except that they have opted for living someplace else. If that is the case, why 200,000 thousands Cubans have risked their lives on makeshift rafts to escape from Dr. Castro island paradise?

I lean left but I don't believe Cuba is a "wonderful place to live", I don't see the mainstream media telling that tale either.
And as far as healthcare, I'm sure it's excellent for the cognoscenti and for foreigners, and probably crumbling and less than mediocre for the masses, just as in any very poor country with a universal system.
Djibouti has universal care too, but outside Djibouti City (the capital) it's a cinch you won't find much in the way of medical resources, facilities or doctors, so those in the countryside receive little or no service as the country's pathetic economy can't handle the demand.

Cuba's situation is not going to change until the authoritarian leadership either dies off or relaxes their iron grip.
The Communist platform doesn't say everyone gets adequate provisions, it only says provisions are distributed to the masses.
When there's little or no provisions, the masses get little or nothing.

But still, the more you harp on mainstream media painting a rosy picture of Cuba and American liberals gobbling up the spin, the less credible you sound. Pretty much every American knows the economy is a nightmare in Cuba and they know that Cubans groan under a steady diet of official communist repression of thought, words, deeds and market.
What Americans admire about Cubans is their resourcefulness, something we have almost no concept of here.
They also admire their will and determination to be happy, and their pledge to live in a harmonious manner with each other.
It's probably one of the only things that has kept so many of them alive.
 
The embargo came directly out of a spat between Cuba and the U.S. about Cuba's domestic control of property rights shortly after Castro took power. Castro ended up nationalizing the U.S. companies in Cuba and the U.S. placed the embargo in response.

Remember how Bernie Madoff got 150 years in prison for financial crimes that result in a slap on the wrist almost every day of the week for others? The one difference is, the Masters of the Universe on Wall Street normally rip off the little people, which is why they seldom face any kind of harsh justice.
Madoff ripped off the elites, the "One Percent".
And that's why he got such a harsh sentence.

Well, had Cuba's nationalization only hurt the little people here in the USA, Castro's Cuba wouldn't have received more than a stern talking to. The embargo was enacted because Castro hurt the One Percent, America's financial elites.

The little people can't afford to promulgate such harsh justice.
But screw the rich and your head will be handed to you in short order.
 
I lean left but I don't believe Cuba is a "wonderful place to live", I don't see the mainstream media telling that tale either.
And as far as healthcare, I'm sure it's excellent for the cognoscenti and for foreigners, and probably crumbling and less than mediocre for the masses, just as in any very poor country with a universal system.
Djibouti has universal care too, but outside Djibouti City (the capital) it's a cinch you won't find much in the way of medical resources, facilities or doctors, so those in the countryside receive little or no service as the country's pathetic economy can't handle the demand.

Cuba's situation is not going to change until the authoritarian leadership either dies off or relaxes their iron grip.
The Communist platform doesn't say everyone gets adequate provisions, it only says provisions are distributed to the masses.
When there's little or no provisions, the masses get little or nothing.

But still, the more you harp on mainstream media painting a rosy picture of Cuba and American liberals gobbling up the spin, the less credible you sound. Pretty much every American knows the economy is a nightmare in Cuba and they know that Cubans groan under a steady diet of official communist repression of thought, words, deeds and market.
What Americans admire about Cubans is their resourcefulness, something we have almost no concept of here.
They also admire their will and determination to be happy, and their pledge to live in a harmonious manner with each other.
It's probably one of the only things that has kept so many of them alive.
What the hell are you smoking? Sober up man.
 
Migrant vessel from Cuba sinks before reaching land in the Keys
Migrant vessel from Cuba sinks before reaching land in the Keys (tampabay.com)

All seven aboard were rescued by the U.S. Border Patrol, which means they’ll likely be sent back to Cuba
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A boat that ferried seven Cubans to the Florida Keys floats in Boot Key Harbor in the city of Marathon on Tuesday. [ U.S. Border Patrol ]

By David Goodhue
January12, 2021

A homemade boat with seven people from Cuba on board began to sink shortly before it reached land in the Florida Keys Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The vessel’s passengers survived unharmed, but unfortunately for them, their rescuers were U.S. Border Patrol agents, and they will likely be sent back to Cuba.

The boat arrived in the Middle Florida Keys city of Marathon about 9:30 a.m., the agency said. “The group was safely recovered,” Chief Patrol Agent Thomas G. Martin said in a statement released on Twitter Tuesday afternoon.

Six men and a boy were on the boat, said Agent Adam Hoffner with the Border Patrol’s Miami Sector.

They left Matanzas, Cuba, two days ago, Hoffner said.

“Thankfully, the seven individuals were safely recovered and did not suffer any injuries during the event.,” Hoffner said in an email. “Their vessel took on water throughout the trip and eventually became submerged. We continue to warn migrants of the dangers associated with traveling by sea.”

According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, the migrants arrived in Boot Key Harbor, a natural anchorage located on the ocean side of Marathon. The harbor is a popular spot for people who live on their boats.

The federal government tallies migrant stops and arrests by fiscal year, which starts Oct. 1. The Coast Guard said Monday that 47 people have been caught so far this fiscal year trying to enter the U.S. by sea illegally through South Florida.

And, some don’t survive.

In early November, a group of 17 men left Cardenas in the northwestern part of the country on a small fishing boat. They were never seen or heard from again, even after the U.S Coast Guard undertook an extensive eight-day search.
For 62 years Cuban have been escaping from the tyrannical communist regime paradise. Rafters death toll is extremely high. The estimate number of Cuban rafters attempting to escape, mostly by sea in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, from 1959 to 2020 is around 250,000. Dr. Armando Lago econometric research estimate the number of balseros dead at 77,833 up to 2003, when he passed away. The extrapolation of his statistics to 2020, would yield about 100,000 dead.
 
Makeshift vessel found off Florida coast as search goes on for 10 Cuban migrants
Makeshift vessel found off Florida coast as search goes on for 10 Cuban migrants - ABC News

A separate search for six people missing off the Florida coast was suspended.

ByBill Hutchinson
February 15, 2021,

U.S. Coast Guard officials said there were no signs of 10 Cuban migrants believed to be on a rickety homemade boat last seen floating in the water off the Florida Keys.

As the search for the missing migrants continued on Monday, the Coast Guard announced that it has suspended a second ocean rescue effort for six people who also vanished over the weekend off the Florida coast.

Both searches began on Friday.

On Sunday evening, the Coast Guard announced on Twitter that a good Samaritan boater found a "six-foot makeshift vessel" floating in the water empty about eight miles south of Long Key, Florida. Photos of the vessel were posted on the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Miami's Twitter page. The vessel appeared to be crudely constructed and made out of Styrofoam blocks and wood.

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Unfortunate this time the Coast Gard was not able to rescue the 10 Cuban rafters. The death toll of rafters trying to escape in rickety raft keeps climbing. Desperate people do desperate things. And if socialism and communism was as nice in Cuba as lefties have you believe, Cuban citizens would not be trying to escape on makeshift rafts.
 
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U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Crew Repatriates 7 Cuban Migrants Off Florida’s East Coast
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Crew Repatriates 7 Cuban Migrants Off Florida’s East Coast (spacecoastdaily.com)

By U.S. Coast Guard 7th District Southeast // February 21, 2021

OVER 90 CUBAN MIGRANTS HAVE BEEN INTERDICTED TRYING TO ILLEGALLY CROSS THROUGH FLORIDA

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Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans’s crew repatriated seven Cubans to Cuba, Friday, after Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge’s crew stopped their sea voyage due to safety of life at sea concerns. (U.S. Coast Guard image)

WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA (U.S. COAST GUARD) – Coast Guard Cutter Raymond Evans’s crew repatriated seven Cubans to Cuba, Friday, after Coast Guard Cutter Richard Etheridge’s crew stopped their sea voyage due to safety of life at sea concerns.

A good Samaritan reported to Coast Guard Sector Miami watchstanders that a 15-foot green hull, wooden and aluminum vessel without a motor, and seven people aboard was drifting, Wednesday, at approximately 8:30 a.m. 35 miles east of West Palm Beach.

A Coast Guard Auxiliary aircrew located the vessel and directed Richard Etheridge’s rescue crew to the scene. The crew brought the seven men aboard and reported the men left Havana, Cuba, six days prior and were in good health.

The crew provided the migrants with lifejackets before embarking them aboard the cutter. Once aboard, they received food, water, shelter, and basic medical attention.
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This homemade boat has no motor and 7 people were pile up on it. This time the U.S. Coast Gard was able to rescue them, but they will likely be sent back to Cuba. Due to the fact that the economic situation in Cuba is getting worst, more Cubans would be trying to make it to the U.S. in makeshift boats.
 
There are no US embargo boats in the area to pick of some of these escapers and bring them to the US for sanctuary? Oh wait. People aren't noble like that.
You think we should have boats to pick up people who want to come to the United States? How many people on how many boats around the world do you think we should have doing that?
 
Boat Carrying Cubans Capsizes Off Florida Coast; 2nd Group Rescued After 16 Days at Sea
5 Cuban Men in Small Raft Rescued Near Florida Coast After 16 Days at Sea – NBC 6 South Florida (nbcmiami.com)

The agency said on Twitter late Sunday that the men were 2 miles southeast of the Lake Worth Inlet, near the Port of Palm Beach

By Adriana Gomez Licon Published February 22, 2021

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five Cuban men who said they had been floating at sea in a small raft for 16 days, while another group on a makeshift vessel was thrown overboard off Florida's coast.

The agency said on Twitter late Sunday that the men were 2 miles southeast of the Lake Worth Inlet, near the Port of Palm Beach, when they were picked up. Images posted on the official Twitter account show the group of men in the makeshift vessel wrapped with a black tube and a piece of white cloth that appears to be have been used to sail the raft.

The Coast Guard has not said whether they will be repatriated.

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The Martin County Sheriff's Office on Monday released aerial footage that showed another group of Cubans on a homemade vessel that capsized off St. Lucie County Sunday.

Eight Cubans including six men and two pregnant women were on the vessel that was spotted just south of Waveland Beach.

Officials said first responders were heading to the location of the vessel when it took on a large wave, throwing all eight of the people into the water.
These Cuban rafter are very lucky that they survive. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that only one in four rafters who have attempted to escape in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, have been successful, while others have been capture and many have died. Dr. Lago estimated the number of balseros dead at 77,833 until 2003. The extrapolation of his statistics to 2020, would yield about 100,000 dead. An staggering figure.
 
Boat Carrying Cubans Capsizes Off Florida Coast; 2nd Group Rescued After 16 Days at Sea
5 Cuban Men in Small Raft Rescued Near Florida Coast After 16 Days at Sea – NBC 6 South Florida (nbcmiami.com)

The agency said on Twitter late Sunday that the men were 2 miles southeast of the Lake Worth Inlet, near the Port of Palm Beach

By Adriana Gomez Licon Published February 22, 2021

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five Cuban men who said they had been floating at sea in a small raft for 16 days, while another group on a makeshift vessel was thrown overboard off Florida's coast.

The agency said on Twitter late Sunday that the men were 2 miles southeast of the Lake Worth Inlet, near the Port of Palm Beach, when they were picked up. Images posted on the official Twitter account show the group of men in the makeshift vessel wrapped with a black tube and a piece of white cloth that appears to be have been used to sail the raft.

The Coast Guard has not said whether they will be repatriated.

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These Cuban rafter are very lucky that they survive. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that only one in four rafters who have attempted to escape in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, have been successful, while others have been capture and many have died. Dr. Lago estimated the number of balseros dead at 77,833 until 2003. The extrapolation of his statistics to 2020, would yield about 100,000 dead. An staggering figure.
 
These Cuban rafter are very lucky that they survive. The U.S. Coast Guard estimates that only one in four rafters who have attempted to escape in small boats and makeshift rafts keep afloat by using inner tubes and disregards tires as floating devises, have been successful, while others have been capture and many have died. Dr. Lago estimated the number of balseros dead at 77,833 until 2003. The extrapolation of his statistics to 2020, would yield about 100,000 dead. An staggering figure.
Kind of sad and ironic at the same time. We effectively have an open border in Florida for Cubans running from a repressive society. Yet people are criticizing Biden for allegedly opening the border to Central Americans fleeing repressive societies.
 
Kind of sad and ironic at the same time. We effectively have an open border in Florida for Cubans running from a repressive society. Yet people are criticizing Biden for allegedly opening the border to Central Americans fleeing repressive societies.
On January 2017, Obama terminated the “wet foot, dry foot” immigration policy, and those rafters capture by the U.S. Coast Guard are returned back to the island, in contrast with the thousands overs thousands crossing the open south border to anyone, including criminals and terrorist from many countries word wide, receiving asylum in the U.S., in contrast to the Florida border that is closed to Cubans rafters, escaping the Castroit tyrannical communist regime, and any other migrant.
 
Coast Guard repatriates 17 migrants to Cuba
PHOTOS AVAILABLE: Coast Guard repatriates 17 migrants to Cuba (govdelivery.com)

03/22/2021

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MIAMI — Coast Guard Cutter Charles Sexton's crew repatriated 17 Cuban migrants to Cuba, Monday.

The 17 Cuban migrants were interdicted Thursday by the Charles Sexton crew approximately 54 miles south of Key West and brought aboard due to safety of life at sea concerns.

"People who attempt to illegally enter the United States by taking to the sea put their lives, and the lives of their accompanying family members at grave risk," said Lt. Cmdr. Mario Gil, Coast Guard liaison officer, U.S. Embassy Havana. "We strongly discourage these dangerous and deadly voyages in favor of safe and legal ways to enter the United States."

Since Oct. 1, 2020, Coast Guard crews have interdicted 107 Cubans compared to:

  • 5,396 Cuban migrants in Fiscal Year 2016
  • 1,468 Cuban migrants in Fiscal Year 2017
  • 259 Cuban migrants in Fiscal Year 2018
  • 313 Cuban migrants in Fiscal Year 2019
  • 49 Cuban migrants in Fiscal Year 2020
Once aboard a Coast Guard cutter, all migrants receive food, water, shelter and basic medical attention. Throughout the interdiction, Coast Guard crew members were equipped with personal protective equipment to minimize potential exposure to any possible case of COVID-19. There were no migrants in these cases reported to have any COVID-19 related symptoms.
Because the economic situation in Cuba under the Castroit regime is getting worst, more Cubans are trying to make it to the U.S. in makeshift boats, no matter what the consequences.

Coast Guard Cmdr. Mario Gil said: "We strongly discourage these dangerous and deadly voyages in favor of safe and legal ways to enter the United States." Meaning, come through the U.S. south border, it is safer and an easy way to enter the U.S., since you are not sent back.
 
Because the economic situation in Cuba under the Castroit regime is getting worst, more Cubans are trying to make it to the U.S. in makeshift boats, no matter what the consequences.

Coast Guard Cmdr. Mario Gil said: "We strongly discourage these dangerous and deadly voyages in favor of safe and legal ways to enter the United States." Meaning, come through the U.S. south border, it is safer and an easy way to enter the U.S., since you are not sent back.
Cubans are by definition not sent back.
 
I think we're still giving asylum to Cubans.

Lots of doctors, nurses, dentists, etc.
 
Cubans are by definition not sent back.
I think we're still giving asylum to Cubans.

Lots of doctors, nurses, dentists, etc.
Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden administration Home Land Security Secretary on July 13 said that “ Cubans and Haitians attempting to cross the Caribbean Sea and Straits of Florida would not be permitted on U.S. soil. Those who establish a “well-founded fear of persecution or torture” would be referred to other countries for resettlement. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

The Biden Administration decline to give political asylum to Cubans rafters escaping the Castroit tyrannical communist regime, but open the south border to anyone who makes an asylum claim. This demonstrated that Biden’s border policy has nothing to do with human rights, it is about importing votes, since those fleeing from Cuba will not vote for an administration that support a leftists agenda.
 
Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden administration Home Land Security Secretary on July 13 said that “ Cubans and Haitians attempting to cross the Caribbean Sea and Straits of Florida would not be permitted on U.S. soil. Those who establish a “well-founded fear of persecution or torture” would be referred to other countries for resettlement. Allow me to be clear: If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States.”

The Biden Administration decline to give political asylum to Cubans rafters escaping the Castroit tyrannical communist regime, but open the south border to anyone who makes an asylum claim. This demonstrated that Biden’s border policy has nothing to do with human rights, it is about importing votes, since those fleeing from Cuba will not vote for an administration that support a leftists agenda.
Incorrect analysis on your part. First: your post said “Cubans and Haitians”. Sadly, those interdicted at sea do not have the right to seek asylum, be they Haitians or Cubans, Venezuelans or Dominicans, based on Reagan era policy and a Supreme Court decision affirming it. I was in the Supreme Court to observe the oral arguments in that sad case. But the Refugee Act of 1980 guarantees asylum seekers of any nationality the right to apply for asylum at a land border or port of entry. Cubans/Haitians that reach US beaches still have that right. If Biden was really anti-Cuban he would (suicidally) introduce legislation to repeal the law that guarantees protection to Cubans, protection that I believe no other nationality has.
 
Incorrect analysis on your part. First: your post said “Cubans and Haitians”. Sadly, those interdicted at sea do not have the right to seek asylum, be they Haitians or Cubans, Venezuelans or Dominicans, based on Reagan era policy and a Supreme Court decision affirming it. I was in the Supreme Court to observe the oral arguments in that sad case. But the Refugee Act of 1980 guarantees asylum seekers of any nationality the right to apply for asylum at a land border or port of entry. Cubans/Haitians that reach US beaches still have that right. If Biden was really anti-Cuban he would (suicidally) introduce legislation to repeal the law that guarantees protection to Cubans, protection that I believe no other nationality has.
Doublespeak, your language deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts and reverses the meaning of words.
 
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