Cuban-Americans Lash Out at Republicans

[UpInArms]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1493752

MIAMI Jan 11, 2006 — When 15 Cubans fleeing their homeland landed on an abandoned bridge in the Florida Keys, they inadvertently found themselves in an uncomfortable legal spotlight one the Republican Party is sharing.

The plight of the immigrants deported Monday back to Cuba has reopened the bitter debate over the government's immigration policy and angered South Florida's heavily Republican Cuban exile community.

"This will have an effect of reducing the numbers of Cuban-American voters that would blindly follow a Republican candidate," Cuban American National Foundation President Pepe Hernandez said. "Cubans are going to realize that both parties come when they need us but tend to forget our pledges when they don't."

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Under the current "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy, Cubans who reach U.S. soil are allowed to remain in the United States. Those stopped at sea are sent home.

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"I think that at some point, the dissonance between rhetoric and practice will have some sort of result, whether it's a reformulation of the policy or a political fallout with people's allegiance to the Republican party eroded," Fernandez said.

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[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Good.

The Bay of Pigs was 40 fucking years ago, people! Wake the fuck up!

The place you came to get away from oppression and tyranny is now full of oppression and tyranny, and you helped us get here!

[FlaGranny]

2. Actually, many of those

Miami folks were themselves the ORIGINAL oppressors - the friends and beneficiaries of the old dictatorship. They're just trying to continue the same thing here.

[zbdent]

3. Or, maybe,

trying to claim their old land (for free) so that they can sell it at a huge profit to casino builders . . .

[classysassy]

4. New votes

soon the rethugs will comeup with plan B,any Mexican that comes across the Rio Grande or the Tx,N Mex,Az,or Ca border can remain in the USA if they join the rethug party.