Comments on: DeSantis Picks Appellate Judge for Supreme Court

By: Pretty Petty

Pretty Petty — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:43:09 +0000

In reply to Phil.

http://atha.se/blog/distinguishing-between-asylum-seekers-and-economic-migrants-analysis-state-practice

Seems like they’re playing semantics with lives. Some lives are more cherished than others, I see.

Can’t see how the groups of Cubans and the group of Guatemalans are any different. Sounds like if you don’t like your leader, you can come. If you’re fleeing poverty you cannot. So if the Guatemalans just say they’re capitalist and hate their leader, can they then come?

By: Pretty Petty

Pretty Petty — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:24:25 +0000

In reply to News Maven. Heard...I know their history.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:58:05 +0000

I think the Cuban Missle crisis conferred a special staus on Cuba. When JFK forced the USSR to pulls their intermediate range (which could reach major US cities in the southeast) ballistic missles out of cuba by enforcing a naval blockade, and the failed CIA backed Bay of Pigs invasion occurred, the people of Cuba became pawns in the strategic chess game. Political refugees were and are welcomed without quotas. Economic refugees which are the vast majority of immigrants and have quotas by country. Mexican refugees are economic refugees.

By: News Maven

News Maven — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 23:19:52 +0000

In reply to Pretty Petty. If Mexico had been secretly building ICBM missile silos with the Russkies help, I'm sure our policy on accepting Mexican nationals would have been historically quite different. Just sayin'.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:44:17 +0000

Castro let the US run freedom flights using Eastern Airlines to bring 250,000 Cuban refugees to Miami. There were no internment camps, other than an INS processing center. As political refugees fleeing a communist regime there were allowed to settle and with the help of their friends and relatives established new lives in Miami. My dad was a Spanish teacher at Hialeah High and collected toys for the kids coming over from Cuba. I am sure there are plenty of Cubans here in Tally that can relate their experiences. Most of my friends were Cuban in junior high and high school. Most of their parents work menial jobs and worked their way up the economic ladder. Many became very successful and their kids, now in the 50s and 60s are successful doctors, lawyers, teachers, accountants, police officers, nurses, business owners, etc. So in one generation Miami and Dade County went from a predominantly Anglo community in the early 1960s to a predominately Hispanic community in the 1980s and 90s. Haitians were not political refugees but considered economic refugees. So they were detained in the Krome Ave refugee camp and some were sent back to Haiti. I had many Haitian friends on my high school soccer team. They too were hardworking and wanting to assimilate.

By: News Maven

News Maven — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 00:21:27 +0000

Heres two good resources, PP:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article117194848.html
A colleague was one of the 14,000 children who came to Florida in the ’60s Operation Pedro Pan. When Obama became president, his head was spinning, déjà-vu style.
Another:
https://www.heritage.org/americas/report/the-cuban-refugee-problem-perspective-1959-1980

By: Pretty Petty

Pretty Petty — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:20:57 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy

Cursory research reveals exactly what I thought. It was fine for Cubans to come for decades and get residency, etc WITHOUT doing it the legal way….all the way up until January 2017.

I find this…I don’t even know what to say. It’s been said. I’ll do more research…..
http://theplantain.com/study-finds-54-of-cubans-think-they-are-white-2/

By: Pretty Petty

Pretty Petty — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 20:13:14 +0000

Just wondering…when the Cubans fled, did they wait 10 years for asylum? Or did they just come? Did we welcome them? Did we separate them from their families? I really don’t have any point of reference for this part of American history except for the movie Scarface….in the movie, Tony Montana acted as if they were held in camps and given crap jobs. If that’s the case, then perhaps she has some personal experience with discrimination and running to the USA to save yours and your family’s lives. I’m going to do my own research, but I find it ironic that these conservatives support denying other hispanics the same opportunities to evade crime and death that they themselves took advantage of. Again, I’m lacking in facts. I just watched the movie. I have heard how the Cubans (the whiter ones, anyway) were welcome, while the Haitians were not. Wet foot-dry foot….I’ll do my research. Congratulations to this woman, and I wish her well on the Court.