How is it that Cubans can "swim" to the US and stay? It's an outrage?

Question

reading in the newpaper yesterday, 18 cubans landed on the west coast of Florida that were headed to Miami, strong winds took them to west. They came to the US and are being allowed to stay! I strongly disargee. If you come to US soil/land illegaly, you should be sent back in 24 hours. it's not fair to our workers. immigrants don't pay taxes, social security, insurance, but when it comes time for them to collect Social security @ 65, they are the 1st in line. It's an outrage. These people were spotted by a sprimp boat driver on a Hwy walking soaked with ocean water, dehydrated and with hypothermia. They should get a hot meal, dry clothes and a ticket back to their country. What if it were an Arab or Chinese person, we would be worried about terrorism or the Avian/Chicken flu coming over with them. What's the difference? As a PROUD, strong Latino I'm going to have to disagree strongly with swimming or boating immigrants.

Answer 1

The difference is economic refugees vs political refugees. US policy is to give sanctuary to people fleeing political repression, but not necessarily to those merely seeking economic opportunity.

That's the general policy, agree or disagree.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Cubans are allowed to stay because they are granted amnesty when they touch the US shore. You are wrong when you say that they don't pay taxes and everything else. Cubans are not here illegally so they can file for US citizenship. This policy is in place from the Cold War because Cuba is a communist country. If trade was opened with Cuba then I think that we would see this position reversed and then they would get a one way ticket right back home.

Answer 4

Because Cuba is a communist country and it's an agreement that's been made for political assylum. We have sent some back though. I don't know if you remember or heard of Elian. He was a boy who made it with his mother and his mother died on the trip. He even had family members here but his father was in Cuba and wanted him back. He went back to Cuba. Castro is like his grandpa now.

I don't 100% agree with the policy since they aren't screened as well as they should be either. Efforts are made to stop them by the coast guard and now some are going to Puerto Rico since it's a US territory.

Answer 5

They risk their life to avoid persecution in their country and since there is no legal way to immigrate from Cuba to the US how else can they do it ? Let's face it all of our families came from some where else. I also don't think Latinos are the first in line for a hand out. They are a hard working bunch looking for a break. I have no problem with them in my country or my neighborhood.

Answer 6

The thing is, USA cannot politically release people to a country it doesn't have political relations to. It is ironic that the Cubans would take refuge in the US, who is partly to blame of their sorry economic state... We can all agree that the cuban living standards WOULD improve if the US stopped its blockade. It's another thing completely whether that blockade is justified.

Answer 7

Cuban is a dictatorship, so every country in the world, for humanitarian reasons, should allow Cubans to immigrate.

Answer 8

The oldest discriminatory policy is one that lets Cubans who have left Cuba for the United States enter and stay in the United States despite their illegal entry. That policy is accomplished by the use of the discretionary authority conferred on the Executive Branch in our immigration law to parole an alien into the country despite the lack of proper documentation. As a result of being paroled into the country, the Cuban illegal entrants are given a work permit. That policy has been in effect for decades - since the Castro-led revolution declared itself to be communist and allied with the Soviet Union in the early 1960s.

In 1994, under the threat of a new massive wave of illegal immigration from Cuba like the Mariel boatlift of 1980 during which the Castro regime facilitated an exodus of about 125,000 Cubans among whom he planted hard-core criminals, mental patients and spies, the Clinton Administration restricted the blanket parole of Cuban illegal immigrants. President Clinton announced a 'wet-foot dry-foot' policy in which only those Cubans who set foot on U.S. soil ('dry-foot') would benefit from the earlier blanket policy of parole into the country. Those who were intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard or Navy at sea ('wet-foot') would be given an opportunity to assert a claim to refugee status, i.e., that they would face persecution if they were returned to Cuba, and, if they could present no compelling case for refugee protection, they would be returned to Cuba.

This policy remains in effect and most Cubans who are intercepted trying to illegally enter the United States are returned to Cuba. To monitor whether the returned Cubans are in fact not subjected to persecution, the U.S. Interest Section (the equivalent of an Embassy except that we do not officially recognize the Castro regime) in cooperation with international organizations that have operations in Cuba, such as the International Organization for Migration, have maintained follow-up contact with the returned Cubans. The result of this monitoring has been a conclusion that there is no systematic policy of the Cuban government to persecute those Cubans who have been returned.

THE US WANT TO DESTABALIZE THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT. THAT IS WHY THEY ARE GIVEN THIS STATUS. CLINTON ENACTED THE WET FOOT DRY FOOT POLICY WHICH ALLOWS CUBANS THAT REACH THE SHORE TO STAY.

Answer 9

Cubans arent like cockroaches though. They dont come here and pop out a baby a year like the latinos here on the west coast do.

Answer 10

I agree, too. You should be allowed to apply for refugee status, but actually making a law that allows you to become a citizen by swimming onto the shore is absurd.

And it so obviously encourages dangerous acts of desperation.