Fidel Castro celebrates 90th birthday, criticises Obama in public letter

[Judi Lynn]

43. From which terrifying dictator are the hundreds of people who die in the desert,

the mountains, rivers, canals, or other parts of the ocean who are fleeing from other countries in the Western Hemisphere each year trying to escape?

Are Mexicans fleeing from Pena Nieto? Are Haitians fleeing from Michel Martelly, Hondurans fleeing from Juan Orlando Hernández? Guatemalans fleeing from Jimmy Morales? El Salvadorans fleeing from Salvador Sánchez Cerén?

Why is it when the US under Reagan was fighting leftist leadership in Nicaragua, and using forces in the other Central American states, including death squads, and the people were attempting to run to the US to avoid being butchered while alive, or clubbed to death, or hacked to death with machetes, raped, shot full of holes and thrown down wells, some while still living, surrounded by murdered neighbors, and children, that Cuban right-wing Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and her right-wing allies in the Congress, like Jesse Helms, Tom Delay, etc. pushed for legislation to keep them from getting the same benefits in the United States she and other right-wingers had arranged for Cubans, to lure them here?

Cuban Adjustment Act? Only for Cubans, no one else: instant legal status, protection, instant work visa, complete access to social security, welfare, food stamps, Section 8 taxpayer-financed housing, medical treatment, financial assistance for education, low-cost loans for businesses, etc., etc., etc. This gives back a lot that Cubans lose when they leave their homes in Cuba, as political pawns, in the attempt to drain the Cuban economy of able-bodied young workers. These benefits are not available for immigrants from other countries, even countries where their lives are actually in grave danger.

So what terrifying "dictator" have the hundreds of ones who died in the effort so far this year try to escape? Don't forget, some of those who come from Haiti have a path across water to travel which is nine hundred miles rather than 90.