DId you know cubans can cross the border on foot from mex to the usa and be allowed in without papers???

Question

and the government even gives them welfare

Yep, people i know..THis one cuban did it, he told me he was real nervous but his friends had done it too. In matamoros mexico, whenever a cop sees a cuban, he knows immediatly to take him to the bridge and charges him like if it were a taxi.

WHen u get to customs they ship you passport to any address in the US and give you some type of card..

automatic refugee status. thats its

Answer 1

Yes, Why not? Its all about politics, If you think getting here in a raft is hard, I heard is even harder to go to another country. They only way to really know whats going on over there is to be there, because American would not understand what these people go through, we find it inconceivable and hard to believe.
Dude I was going through your profile and it seems like you dont like Americans much? I wonder why you spend so much time talking about us?

Answer 2

Yup. They are also allowed to stay if they make it across the Gulf. anyone else is sent back if caught.

"The wet feet, dry feet policy (sometimes called the wet-foot, dry-foot Policy) is the name given to a consequence of the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 that says, essentially, that anyone who fled Cuba and got into the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later. After talks with the Cuban government, the Clinton administration came to an agreement with Cuba that it would stop admitting people found at sea. Since then, in what has become known as the "wet feet, dry feet" policy, a Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations, "wet feet", would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore, "dry feet", gets a chance to remain in the United States, and later would qualify for U.S. citizenship."

Thanks, Bill.

Answer 3

yeah that's the law. as long as a cuban steps on american soil, he is allowed to stay.

The wet feet, dry feet policy (sometimes called the wet-foot, dry-foot Policy) is the name given to a consequence of the 1995 revision of the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 that says, essentially, that anyone who fled Cuba and got into the United States would be allowed to pursue residency a year later. After talks with the Cuban government, the Clinton administration came to an agreement with Cuba that it would stop admitting people found at sea. Since then, in what has become known as the "wet feet, dry feet" policy, a Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations, "wet feet", would summarily be sent home or to a third country. One who makes it to shore, "dry feet", gets a chance to remain in the United States, and later would qualify for U.S. citizenship.


Background

Between 1962 and 1979, hundreds of thousands of Cubans entered the United States under the Attorney General's parole authority, many of them arriving by boat. In 1980, a mass migration of asylum seekers -- known as the Mariel boatlift -- brought approximately 125,000 Cubans (and 25,000 Haitians) to South Florida over a six-month period. After declining for several years, Cuban "boat people" steadily rose from a few hundred in 1989 to a few thousand in 1993. After Castro made threatening speeches in 1994, riots ensued in Havana, and the Cuban exodus by boat escalated. The number of Cubans intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard or the U.S. Border Patrol reached a post-Mariel high of almost 40,000 in 1994.

Until 1995, the United States generally had not repatriated Cubans (except certain criminal aliens on a negotiated list) under a policy established when the government became Communist within two years of the 1959 revolution. Not only has the United States been reluctant to repatriate people to a Communist country, but the Cuban government typically has also refused to accept Cuban migrants who are excludable under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (Cubans who have been convicted of crimes in the United States pose complex problems, as Cuba is among a handful of nations that does not generally accept the return of criminal aliens).

Answer 4

Yes, I think Cubans get automatic refugee status or something like that.

Answer 5

No I did not know that. I guess it is because Cuba is a Communist country. The US Government loves it if they can find evidence that people are dissatisfied with communism or socialism.

Answer 6

I could be mistaken on this, but my understanding is that this applies only to those Cubans who come DIRECTLY to the US. Not via another country.

Answer 7

Cuba isn't Mexico, though mecha made them the same communist oppresive government. They tried to colonize for Cuba too, but failed. So will Mexico.

Answer 8

If you have proof of that, I would be interested in having it posted under the "details" of your question. Otherwise, I would imagine that is just a "blow-hard" comment.

Answer 9

We should take photos of them and mail them to Castro to show him that "his" people like America better.

Answer 10

No. I did not know that.
Sounds like it is not true.



My state is not a welfare state anymore. Hmm...