it seems pretty similar.
2007-08-16 12:37:29 · 18 answers · asked by Propaganda Panda 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
cubans are considered refugees because their government is corrupt. so what is mexico's.
2007-08-18 04:00:48 · update #1
It isn't (at least not according to the U.S. government). Cubans are believed to be escaping a communist government and are thus given a special treatment according to a law passed some time during the Cold War...
It actually got even more bizarre for a few years in the 1980s. Nicaraguans fleeing the pro-Soviet Sandinista government were given asylum left and right, while people from El Salvador were refused asylum on the grounds that Napoleon Duarte (whose human rights record is infinitely worse than Sandinistas') was not a Communist...
2007-08-16 12:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by NC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a throwback to the comunist takeover of cuba. The kennedy administration thought it would be a way to put pressure on fidel if we allowed cubans assylum and embargoed cuba. The law has never been taken off of the books despite the fact that all it has done is promoted cubans to abandon their country and come here instead of trying to fix their system from within. The law should have been stricken from the books a long time ago. It is different because a law was passed to give cubans who flee cuba legal admission. No such law exists for mexico, there is no government persecution there to justify such an instance.
2007-08-16 20:49:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Political refugee vs. person trying to get a job but still loves their government. When a Cuban comes to the US it is to escape their government. When a Mexican comes to the US it is to get a job, send the money back home, then return to Mexico when they have made enough and live in Mexico.
2007-08-16 19:52:49 · answer #3 · answered by Memnoch 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Cuba has a dictatorship and we have had an embargo against them for many years. What the law states is if they reach land they can stay as people seeking political asylum. However if they don't touch dry land we round them up and send them back...believe me we really try to catch them all before they hit dry land! If the border patrol had the means to do the same thing on the border as the Coast Guard does at sea...the border would be a ghost town!
2007-08-16 19:51:57 · answer #4 · answered by Scooter McAsscrackin 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I suspect it would be the difference between political refugees and 'economic refugees.' Though, said Cuban would have to get refugee status - the fact he's fleeing a tyranical Communist regime might help.
2007-08-16 19:56:43 · answer #5 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cubans are classed as political refugees.
2007-08-17 00:58:55 · answer #6 · answered by kwilfort 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's the law. The Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 declares all Cubans who are able to escape political refugees.
If you don't like it write to your congressman.
http://www.cubasocialista.com/adjust1.htm
2007-08-16 20:00:29 · answer #7 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JB, Florida is hardly a 3rd world state. It is one of the better off in fact. I hate to tell you those most like 3rd world are not those mostly influenced by Hispanics it is states like Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina along with West Virginia and Tennessee, they have to be some of the most backward I have encountered. Alabamans are some of the nicest folks I have ever encountered but it is a backward state. South Carolinians are just rude and hate all outsiders whether you are from another southern state, a northern one, or if you are foreign.
2007-08-16 20:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by summermoondancer2004 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I live in South Florida and it's a bunch of crap,they should send them back when they're caught trying to sneak into this country,but under current law if they actually touch the shore then they're allowed to stay.It's called the wet foot dry foot policy.If their feet are dry they go back(meaning they didn't have time to hop out of the boat)but if they have wet feet(hopped out of boat and made it to shore)then they stay.It's ridiculous to us in South Florida cause they send the Haitians back whether they get to land or not and I'd have to say that Haiti is a lot worse off than Cuba and ol Fidel.They let them stay because of fear of retaliation by the gov. of Cuba for leaving but the ones who get sent back don't fear retaliation???They should send them all back but unfortunately the Cubans have a larger lobby than the Haitians.
Moonbeam or whatever i've lived here for 22 yrs. and seen this place go to hell as far as being an english speaking American,i live in a middle-class neighboorhood and have 10-12 Mexicans living across the street from me in one two bedroom house.I don't know where you're from but i suggest you come and visit Broward County where we have watched for the past ten years this crap move it's way up from Miami.We have a third of South America living in South Florida and your gonna tell me it's not 3rd world?You're lucky to find a job here unless you speak spanish so come and visit or if you think its so great move on in i'm sure my neighbors can find you a spot on the couch.
2007-08-16 20:00:53 · answer #9 · answered by J B 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
They should be treated the same way as any illegal but, if there is a bleeding heart on the beach that gets what they consider the floaters, lol, struggle on video than we buy them and their families mansions and harass hard working Americans for just doing there jobs.
2007-08-16 19:57:42 · answer #10 · answered by skipmastaflash 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋