Cubans (not) coming in the US

[cema]

Shame.

Fifteen Cubans who fled their homeland and landed on an abandoned bridge piling in the Florida Keys were returned to their homeland Monday after U.S. officials concluded that the structure did not constitute dry land.

Generally, I agree that illegal immigrant should not be treated the same way as legal immigrants, though I do not count illegal immigration (by itself) a particularly serious crime. However, the dry/wet policy regarding Cuban refugees is simply shameful. Let them all come ashore! Let them live here! And make them all legal.

Comments

[cema.livejournal.com]

Well, since you have used the word "counterproductive", I would have thought you had some kind of goal in mind.

1. There are fundamentally two ways to achive this: (1) reduce immigration or (2) make the legal entry easier.

2, 3 are important, I think. I am not sure how easy it is for the federal government to put together a "simple, unequivocal, understandable" policy; it is possible, but requires a lot of guts.

Coast Guard is doing a good job, generally speaking, but the courts have to enforce the policy. SO the problem is with the policy makers.