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Originally posted by stardusttwin
Give me a break...the US HATES Castro and have tried over the years to remove him. To get in Castro's face the US has established a system which allows Cuban residents rights they REFUSE to give others who are in actual danger solely to piss Castro off. Haitian citizens who are in danger (not just politically but are starving and still suffering from the mudslides that hit the country after the hurricaines last year) continue to DIE - but the US sticks to its "policies" and continues to deport anyone who happens to make it here with no regard.
How quickly we've forgotten Elian and the drama with his mothers family that wanted to keep him here while his father fought to have him returned to Cuba. He wasn't in danger - he's in Cuba living his life.
Funny how the media now has people up in arms over immigrants "stealing our jobs" and "mis-using our tax dollars" and we've conveniently taken the heat off the president for the rising gas prices and daily rising death toll in Iraq.....
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But again, the US has ties to Cuba historically and not to Haiti. That's why France is so involved in Haiti (or at least moreso than other countries). It's also why that altered form of French is spoken there.
Haitians are starving? So is a considerable portion of the world. Everywhere from India to Africa. It's all good and great to talk about helping people, but the United States isn't in the business of charity. It donates quite a bit but it doesn't open its doors for all the poor to just rush in. I mean hey why don't we just send boats to Haiti and bring the entire population over and settle them in Montana? Then we can make Haiti into a new club Med.
And you're right, Elian did get returned and wasn't made into a US citizen. He wasn't in danger, like you said, and was returned.
As for rising gas prices a president doesn't control them (blame the Arabs and Venezualans as well as investors who control the price of oil after it reaches the market). As for Iraq, that's a whole other issue but either way it's a separate issue. It's not like anyone said don't talk about Iraq. Iraq is in the news every day. It's a pretty big copout to just say "Hey don't enforce immigration laws, because we have the Iraq war going on".
On top of that immigration is mostly a congressional issue and not presidential. It's come into the spotlight because of the congressional races that are coming up.
Either way, the law is the law isn't it? And aren't these people breaking the law? That's what it all comes down to. And since this isn't a small law they're breaking it's pretty important to enforce it.
-Rudey
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