Miami-Dade Commission to US: Time to tighten Cuban Adjustment Act

[Mika]

Miami-Dade to US: Time to tighten Cuban Adjustment Act

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In an often personal and emotional debate, the Miami-Dade County Commission on Wednesday declared unprecedented support for changes to an immigration law that gives special preference to Cubans, enabling hundreds of thousands to enter the U.S. without permission and stay.

The commission did not back outright repeal of the nearly 50-year-old Cuban Adjustment Act but acknowledged that abuses threaten its survival. The panel urged federal officials to find a way to continue to protect Cubans fleeing political persecution while discouraging "migration for purely economic reasons."

"Hopefully Congress will get the message that something has to be done with the act," said Commissioner Bruno A. Barreiro, a Cuban-American who launched what his colleagues called a "courageous" debate by proposing that Congress repeal the law.
Plundering America: The Cuban Criminal Pipeline

Commissioners acknowledged that frequent travel to Cuba by recent arrivals had undermined the spirit of the law: offering refuge to people fleeing communism and oppression under the Castro government.The resolution, which they passed unanimously, notes that some Cuban immigrants have exploited the act and its privileges to commit crimes here.

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[Judi Lynn]

1. A vast point seems to elude those people commenting on the C.A.Act: Horrendous insult to immigrants

who are actually fleeing wildly deadly situations throughout Central America and the Caribbean.

The very idea they are being treated like hated criminals themselves, and thrown right back into the deadly hell they tried to escape, while any Cuban making it to dry land, illegally or not, gets instant legal standing, then welcome to take and use an instant work visa, tax-payer financed housing, food stamps, welfare, medical treatment, education expenses, etc., etc., etc. is mind-blowing, and a cruel hoax to those who only hope to survive a country where they are in mortal danger.

Glad to see remarks by Ramon Saul Sanchez! What IS an article on Cuba without his inspired thinking!

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[Mika]

2. Didn't Mr Sanchez serve time in the US for a felony assault? I think he stabbed or shot someone in a bar?

Do you remember?

[Judi Lynn]

3. Did read once he pulled a gun on a cop, and got away with it, somehow,

when he claimed he mistakenly thought the cop was someone sent by Castro to the US to make trouble for him.

He must have many friends in higher places who do him a lot of good. I would of course suspect that C.A.N.F. member looks out for him.

He did spend 4+ years in a federal prison, allegedly for not telling the government info. they wanted on Omega 7, after they murdered a Cuban delegate to the U.N., ambushing him at an intersection, gunning him down right through the driver's window. They also car-bombed another Cuban envoy in the approximate time period, managing not to kill him.

It could be they kept his assault arrest in the bar under wraps, and the news didn't make it out of the city. Wouldn't be at all surprised. The Miami Herald has been cowering since David Lawrence (old publisher) was targeted by the hate campaign by Jorge Mas Canosa, to the point he and his wife both had to have people checking their cars EACH TIME before they turned them on.

Memory refresher:

Miami Journal; When a City Newspaper Is the Enemy
By LARRY ROHTER,
Published: March 19, 1992

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/19/us/miami-journal-when-a-city-newspaper-is-the-enemy.html

I didn't have much time to really look for background on the lovely Mr. Sanchez, but it is surely in line with his history to think it would have taken very, VERY little to get him in a fist fight, or worse, if anyone challenged his lofty views on Cuba, and a host of other topics.

[Mika]

4. OK. Thanks. I get him and drunken uncle Lazaro mixed up.

They're both a little ... um ... unsteady.