More Than 50 Illegal Cubans Released in Fla (Cuba is on Terrorist List!)

[guajira]

Actually no Cuban who manages to reach the Florida coastline gets to stay and is not considered "illegal". These people are allowed to stay here without ID's or visas or background checks!!

But Cuba is kept on the list of "Terrorist" countries by the US State Dept. This allows Miami Cubans to sue the government of Cuba!!

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/6456723.htm

[guajira]

1. Why Cuba is on Terrorist List

snippet:
Since 1982 Cuba has been named a “state sponsor of terrorism” by the State Department and is accused of supporting terrorism by myriad unofficial sources. In contrast to its depiction of the six other countries on the “state sponsor” list, the State Department’s terrorism report makes no charge that Cuba is supporting terrorist operations, lending credence to the view that Cuba’s designation is exaggerated for political reasons. Apart from the debate about the “state sponsor” designation, a more important question is how the United States should address its concerns about Cuba in the context of a global war on terrorism. Officials see no Cuban role in the September 11 attacks and no Cuban connection to groups that carried it out, but Cuban cooperation could strengthen the hemisphere’s counterterrorism efforts. A diplomatic approach to Cuba would draw domestic political criticism and there are no guarantees that it would succeed, but it is an effort the United States should make, as it is doing with Syria, Iran, and others, in the interest of American security.

The State Department’s List
Few question the idea that Cuba, while aligned with the Soviet Union, represented a security threat. Cuba’s military was supplied and trained by the Soviets. Soviet forces were based in Cuba. Cuba advised and supplied Marxist insurgents in Central America and elsewhere. This threat ended in the early 1990’s when the Soviet Union dissolved, world politics shifted, and Cuba entered an economic crisis. In 1998, a U.S. intelligence assessment termed Cuba’s military capability as “residual” and “defensive.” In recent years U.S. government contingency planning for Cuba has centered not the threat of offensive military action but rather on the possibility that political instability in Cuba could cause massive, uncontrolled migration in the Florida straits.
more..........

http://lexingtoninstitute.org/cuba/cubaterrorism.htm

[Mika]

2. Correction

"Actually no Cuban who manages to reach the Florida coastline gets to stay and is not considered "illegal"."


Guijira, I think you meant to say that - ANY Cuban who manages to reach the Florida coastline gets to stay and is not considered "illegal".

Because that is the case.

[guajira]

4. Thanks Mika, I just re-read my Post and did a Double-take!! Duh!!!

Because of Cuban Adjustment Act (wetfoot/dryfoot), all Cubans who reach the shoreline are allowed to stay in the US!

[Mika]

3. They all could have applied for a legal visa too

Like the '51 Chevy rafters who were repatriated to Cuba, who then turned around and applied for a legal US immigration visa, as they could have from the beginning.

Repatriated Cubans get new truck, make legal bid to migrate
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/6419443.htm

The Cubans who converted a 1951 Chevy pickup into a boat and sailed it to within 40 miles of Florida last week got another truck and drove it through this city's streets Wednesday to the U.S. Interests Section to try a new - and legal - bid to go to America.

After arriving at the oceanfront mission in another vintage Chevy - this one bright blue - the group turned in the completed immigration forms that U.S. officials had given them last week on the high seas.

U.S. officials said they would respond within two months to the requests to emigrate legally.
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Under U.S. immigration policies, Cubans who reach U.S. shores are allowed to stay while those caught at sea are usually returned.

The danger of the US's Cuban Adjustment Act AND the 'wet foot/ dry foot' policy for Cubans is that the illegally smuggled-in (@ $10,000 per head) and illegally entering rafters are enabled a method of bypassing the US criminal background check that all other legal US visa applicants are subjected to. That means that convicted armed robbers, rapists, and other types of violent offenders and criminals are entering from Cuba and are subsequently released into the population in S. Florida, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR CRIMINAL RECORD MIGHT BE. This is contrary to all other US immigration policies for any other nationality.


on edit --> Of course, this is how evildoer Cuban terra-ists could enter too, if Cuba really were the evil island of the evil Dr Castro that the "exiles" & bushco make it out to be.