I understand that Cuba suffers from Communist oppression, but there is oppression in Mexico and Haiti as well. Why the continued preferential treatment to Cubans?
2007-03-28 06:28:47 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Because the policy was developed at a time when tensions with Cuba were high. Once the implications were realized, they didn't want to amend it, but neither did they want to extend it to anyone else.
I understand that Bush is making moves to do away with it in favor of liberalized rules for family of those already here, if events permit after Castro dies.
2007-03-28 09:59:35 · answer #1 · answered by DAR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If Cuban refugees are caught in the water they are taken back to Cuba if they are found already on land they are allowed to stay. this is some cold war legislation doesn't really make sense. The Mexicans have better luck they never get sent back wet or dry.
2007-03-28 13:39:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK... SO here is how it works.... Cuba is a communist ran country... With no hope until Castro dies... They have no money, not enough food... America will not trade with them..
They are in utter earnest… But not by choice… They cannot fight because their government is too strong… Now as for México, here’s what I know they have little money.
Very impoverished and has many people and the government is corrupt. But the government does not kill them if they don’t share the same beliefs. The people of México do nothing about their government. They come here illegally and protest the American government but never think about protesting theirs.
2007-03-28 14:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by isaly_101 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you understand correctly. Cuba is on the hit list. If the USA thinks you're bad, we'll take any old body from your poor country.
Then there are States like Florida, who have such large migrations of these people (Cubans, Haitians) who have become the majority and they have organized to the degree that they have the "touch and go" rule that allows anyone who is of Cuban origin to simply touch their toe on US soil and they have legal rights to become citizens, which most are never denied due to criminality and so on. Hardly very fair.
That's kinda the point. If we allow too many of any one group into our country either legally or illegally, they will skew the system of balance. Very unfair to others who wish to come here by the regular methods, very unfair to tax paying citizens who have invested their lives, commitment to country and paid taxes for this, only to be tossed to the gutter and ignored, while illegalls are allowed to enter with impunity or even with benefits beyond the one's earned by the taxpayer. All this at taxpayer expense.
This is why the USA can't allow millions of illegals from Mexico or anywhere else to my thinking, to enter without due process of immigration law.
2007-03-28 13:39:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The thing that is different from Cuba and everybody else is that Comminism is alive and well in Cuba and it is not in the rest of Latin America.Did you know that in Cuba,steak is enjoyed only once a year?For the last half century the USA has enjoyed their hate-hate relationship with Fidel Castro also.
2007-03-28 14:51:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's based on the government's weird hatered for Cuba. No otehr country has been treated like Cuba has been treated by teh U.S. government. Want to go to Iran? Sure no problem . Want to go to Pakistan and visit the pro Taliban tribes in Pakistan? No problem. Want to go to Cuba? Now that's a problem.
2007-03-28 13:41:04 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We still send as many Cubans back as we can. They just have come in greater masses and are harder to catch. All illegals should be sent back to the place they came from. Any one is welcome to this nation but do legally.
2007-03-28 20:52:29 · answer #7 · answered by potter71331 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I also feel they should all be sent back too, but the US has this "Wet foot / Dry foot" arrangement, so if a Cuban makes it to "dry" land, they are pretty much safe, if they are captured in the water (wet), they are automatically sent back???? Go figure????
2007-03-28 13:43:33 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No one country can absorb eveyone that wants political assylum.
2007-03-28 14:32:47 · answer #9 · answered by Stormchaser 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its to continue to show that we are against cuba...to rub it in their faces that cuba is a failure
2007-03-28 13:32:22 · answer #10 · answered by burga kiiong nocca 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋