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.

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[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

> but it was not enough to walk to the American embassy (ostensibly an American territory) and ask the guard to shelter you

Mostly because it was very difficult to move these people to the US afterwards. The Soviets did not agree to treat them as "diplomatic mail".

But some refugees were living in the embassy most of the time...