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allegorical oracle

(2,357 posts) Fri Sep 16, 2022, 02:30 PM Sep 2022

DeSatan would have been apoplexic if he'd been Fla Gov in 1980...

Here's the monthly total arrivals that year as Cubans were fleeing Castro's Cuba: (Wikipedia)

April - 7,665
May - 86,488
June - 30,800
July - 2,629
August - 3,939
September - 3,258
Total 124,779

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DeSatan would have been apoplexic if he'd been Fla Gov in 1980... (Original Post) allegorical oracle Sep 2022 OP

Well, those are Cubans. So, different? Ray Bruns Sep 2022 #1

Taking care of large numbers of people is difficult, especially when they arrive within just six allegorical oracle Sep 2022 #2

They presumed those were future Republican voters.... TheRealNorth Sep 2022 #3

The people of south Florida were apoplectic during the Mariel Boatlift, I can assure you A HERETIC I AM Sep 2022 #4

Ray Bruns

(4,093 posts)

1. Well, those are Cubans. So, different?

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Fri Sep 16, 2022, 02:34 PM

Sep 2022

allegorical oracle

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2. Taking care of large numbers of people is difficult, especially when they arrive within just six

Reply to Ray Bruns (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 16, 2022, 02:43 PM

Sep 2022

months' time. But President Carter and Florida handled it just fine. I don't know when we (the US) started making it seem like such a hardship, altho do agree that the INS needs reform to make it smoother and faster to take care of arrivals and get them settled with asylum and citizenship.

TheRealNorth

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3. They presumed those were future Republican voters....

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Fri Sep 16, 2022, 03:32 PM

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A HERETIC I AM

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4. The people of south Florida were apoplectic during the Mariel Boatlift, I can assure you

Reply to allegorical oracle (Original post)

Fri Sep 16, 2022, 04:06 PM

Sep 2022

It’s important to remember that Castro literally emptied the jails and directed all of those people to the boatlift.

Miami dealt with the fallout of that for years.

I know about it because I lived there during it.

The above is by no means a defense of Governor DeathSentence. He’s an asshole of the highest degree.

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