Many Cubans want to leave Fidel Castro's socialist paradise immediately. And they're not just economically oppressed.
From the American Spectator:
So I'll tell you what. Here's my deal. If you guys in the Senate want to ram through an immigration bill to reach out and bring all these folks into the Big Tent of the Republican Party, I'll bite my lip and go along. I won't be legalistic or puristic or a nudnik. You want me to give you your short-order cooks and your lawn guys and your house painters, you got it.
But I want something in return. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door, right here in Miami. Give me your Cubans. (No, not the cigars. Apparently Babbin copped all of those.)
Here we have one of the great ironies. The one group of emigres with the most legitimate claim for asylum is the Cubans. The one law-abiding cadre that doesn't make large demonstrations is the Cubans. The one enclave that never presses for bilingual education but works to master English without complaint is the Cubans. (You would never hear them yelling "March!" in April.) And -- here is your full daily USDA RDA of irony -- the only reliable clique of Hispanic voters for the Republican Party is Cuban. Well, guess what? As things stand, the proposed immigration bill leaves the Cubans missing the boat.
How about it, Mr. President?
And yes, they still want to leave Cuba. Wall Street Cafe reports today:
Barely four months into 2006, the number of Cuban migrants to reach Cayman waters has already surpassed the number for full year of 2005. Let's see, the number of 12 months in 4 months? More Cubans are in a hurry to leave the island.
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Cubans don't demonstrate? Do you live in South Florida?? They attack anyone that doesn't conform to their views on Cuba and Castro. They've blocked up expressways all over Miami when they don't get their way. This isn't just one or two, it's thousands! As for bilingual education...again, I ask have you ever been to South Florida? They cubans make no bigger effort to learn english than anyone else. You can quite happily live here without ever uttering a word of english. Hell they might even insult you for not speaking Spanish.
ReplyDeleteI have cuban neighbors...got off the boat less than 1 year ago and are receiving $500/mo in Social Security benefits!
Whatever perceptions you have of the way they act, it is only because they are pandered to by the republican government. Who needs socialism in Cuba when one foot on US land gives you better benefits which were earned through the hard work of citizens!