Tweaking and playing with a hot issue.
"U.S. tweaks Cuba policy"
"The Bush administration unveiled its much-anticipated new immigration policy toward Cuba on Friday, quickening backlogged family visas, offering Cuban doctors who defect abroad easier access to the United States and denying visas to human rights violators."
That's sound good, now let's look at the rest of the whole thing:
"The government also pledged to alert exile families if relatives have been stopped at sea during interdiction operations -- often a major source of anguish for families who receive little or no information about loved ones held on Coast Guard cutters."
What happened until now was a violation of the rights of the Cuban refugees, who has been treated like enemies, even when they are fleeing a country which is officially an enemy of the United States on our own recognition and who are fleeing the most bloodthirsty tyranny ever known on this side of the Atlantic. This could have been done without fanfarre. But hey, politicians will be politicians.
The measures, contained in two separate written statements issued in Washington by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are the first concrete steps by the U.S. government toward Cuba since Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother, Raúl, on July 31.
The situation in Cuba has not changed a bit, and now the tyranny is even more aggressive, so there's no cession of powers here, no transition, this is only a succession of powers to keep the Cuban people enslaved. The immigration reform is long overdue, and the application of the law towards Cuban refugees is more than flawed, as in the case of the application of the dry foot wet foot (President Clinton 1994) which violates by nature the Cuban Adjustment Act (President Johnson 1966)
They also constitute the first major modifications in how the Cuba-U.S. migration accords are administered since the deal was brokered in 1994 as a way to end a rafter exodus. Under the accords, Cuba agreed to restrict illegal departures in exchange for about 20,000 annual visas for Cubans wishing to emigrate to the United States. Repatriation of Cuban migrants interdicted at sea began in 1995.
Homeland Security unveiled the new measures on a day when U.S. Commerce Secretary Cárlos M. Gutierrez, a Cuban American, flew to Miami to tour a U.S. Agency for International Development warehouse in South Florida. The warehouse was stocked with supplies such as food and ''hygiene products,'' Gutierrez said during a meeting with The Miami Herald editorial board. Gutierrez said AID officials told him they could deliver the products to Cuba in four to six hours -- but only if aid is requested by Cubans once the Castro brothers are no longer in power.
In the meantime, the States are still free to keep doing business with kagasstro or his succesor, we cannot help the Cuban people so they are able to survive, this is again the old fable of killing the slaves to bankrup the slave master. The Cuban people is claiming for help, we are denying the help because, eh, the kasstro boys are in power, but the American agrobusiness and pharmacy industries are the first providers of food and medicine to a regime that then exports these goods and never reach the Cuban people. Again, another brilliant strategy to punish the victims and not touch a hair of the beard of their tormentor.
U.S. officials have said the new immigration measures are the result of many months of discussion and not a direct response to the leadership change in Havana.
Sorry, what leadership change? What change? Are you guys totally divorced from reality?
Nevertheless, a senior Homeland Security official suggested that the U.S. government is concerned about the possibility of a chaotic exodus from Cuba.
Which would be really good to destabilize the tyranny, and which would give the U.S. the opportunity to step to the plate and help liberate Cuba. It's interesting to see how we went to liberate Iraqis, but we can't liberate the country of the most suscessful community in the United States in the history of modern migrations. Can anybody tell me how the system works differently when we liberate people who hate America so much and we leave Cubans to fend for themselves?
''We urge the Cuban people to stay on the island, so that they may work for their freedom and a democratic society,'' Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson said in the written statement issued late Friday. ``We discourage anyone from risking their life in the open seas in order to travel to the United States.''
The agency also pledged to work with Congress to toughen penalties for migrant smugglers.
I have said it many times, the only way to eliminate the need Cubans have to take onto the sea on less than seaworthy crafts is to destroy the tyranny who oppresses them, that a full fledge tyranny, and to ask Cubans to revolt against it is as irrational as having ask Jews to depose Hitler or Ukrainian peasants to rebel against Stalin. Eliminate the tyranny, and Cubans will stay in Cuba. And then you will see rafts going towards Cuba from other countries.
South Florida's three Republican Cuban-American congressional representatives -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart -- welcomed the new measures, reserving their biggest praise for the offer to make it easier for Cuban doctors to enter United States.
The three lawmakers lauded ``the Bush administration's announcement to allow doctors and other medical professionals, who have been sent abroad by the Cuban dictatorship, the possibility to immigrate to the United States.''
It has been difficult for Cuban doctors who defect in other countries to obtain U.S. visas because in many cases they are considered to be living in those countries and therefore have fewer rights to request U.S. protection. Tens of thousands of Cuban medical personnel are working abroad in dozens of countries -- about 20,000 in Venezuela alone -- and an estimated 500 have defected in recent years.
To facilitate these doctors to come to the States is a great step, and it should be extended to all Cubans who defect anywhere. Otherwise it'd be an incomplete measure. Also, the figures have to be revised, the estimate from Venezuelan sources is 4000 defections. As long as they don't impose a quota of them, this part is fine. How do you plan to get their families (who are kept hostage in Cuba) to the States?
Perhaps the most important measure is the decision to parole into the United States thousands more Cubans with close relatives here, thus reducing a backlog in family-based immigrant visas. While Homeland Security did not say how big the backlog is, it's said to be in the thousands.
Currently, Cubans who have a close relative who is a U.S. citizen get priority over exiles who are permanent residents. Green card holders seeking a visa for a spouse or a child in Cuba can wait four or five years to obtain a visa in Havana for a relative.
''The backlog is one of the factors behind illegal arrivals by sea,'' a source familiar with the discussions said.
I beg to disagree with the above paragraphs. The backlog has its origins in the amount of money required to process the paperwork, the bureaucracy in both the U.S. and Cuba, and in all the tricks played by the dictator. Again, photo service, notary public, and medical offices inside the USIS will help to ease the process for Cubans and to make it difficul to kasstro to interfere in it. Also, kasstro's forces are disrupting the long line outside the USIS, even trespassing into the USIS grounds and the U.S. Marines who are the custodians in the facility can't do anything about it. Why aren't these traspassing incidents considered a hostile action is something that needs some explaination. As some explaination is needed on why all the provocations against the U.S. diplomatic personnel go answerless
Under the new rules, green card holders who claim close relatives in Cuba will be able to get a visa within the year in which they file the application. U.S. consular officials will allocate 7,500 fewer visas to the annual visa lottery on the island and assign those to family petitions. The total annual number of visas will remain between 20,000 and 21,000.
That doesn't sound bad, but kasstro still have the power to decide who stays and who leaves, which actually makes all Cuban citizens hostages of a terrorist government, and this actually qualifies all the Cubans who are not members of the Communist Party or its repressive forces for asking for political asylum, under the current laws.
Taken together, the new measures amount to a strong signal that regardless of changes in Cuba, the Bush administration does not intend to abandon migration accords with Cuba in effect since 1994.
No, it sends the following signal: "whatever is happening, well, I am sorry the dry-foot wet foot is still on, and if somebody hits you with a 2 x 4 outside the USIS, go home put ice on the bruise and come back the following day"
But the announcement also conveys a sharp distinction between Cubans who apply for a visa and those who try to sneak past the Coast Guard vessels that patrol the Florida Straits. Under the new rules, those sent back will still be eligible for regular lottery visas but not the new family-based expedited petitions.
Isn't this totally contradictory? We send you back to the tyrant that doesn't let you leave, so go to the lottery line now. The message is: "Never mind that you took that raft of yours because your mother put the money, we gave you the visa, and kasstro never let you out"
Nothing in the new rules denies entry to Cubans who make it to shore - even if they succeed in evading Coast Guard vessels. The wet foot/dry foot policy and the Cuban Adjustment Act remain intact.
That's the problem, the wet foot dry foot is illegal as it contradicts the Cuban Adjustment Act, and besides it's totally inhuman. We are sending refugees back to a dictarship and now they can even be denied entry permanently.
However, a passage in the announcement raised the possibility that Cubans deemed to be human rights violators by the U.S. State Department may be denied admission. Homeland Security officials were not available late Friday to explain what this would mean to those who arrive by sea without permission.
They better make this clear. To do that, they should have a list of human rights violators handy. They are not very likely to come here, since they could be easily identified by their formers victims at it has already happened. The list should be made public and international legal action should be taken against those human rights violators, like it has been done in the past with other criminals.
But the source familiar with Bush administration discussions said the new rule means human rights abusers who apply for a visa in Cuba will be rejected, and if they make it to U.S. shores, they will be denied a green card.
This is kind of idiotic. A human right violator applying for a visa? Like Mengele... did he apply for an American visa? Who's the guy who writes all of that? Don't they know that human right violators work in the shades, along with terrorists and other like minded criminals????
However, there was no discussion on whether they would be detained or put in deportation proceedings. Cubans ordered deported are not sent back because Cuba generally rejects exiles.
Oh Lord, a human right violator is not an exile. Why any concers on what happened to them once you send them to Cuba? Is there any reason to be worried about them? Better, you can send them to Guantanamo Base with their litter, the Islamo-fascist terrorist that we have there.
By the way, how are the illegally deported Cubans who were sent to the Island after touching the Seven Miles Bridge covered by the new rules? Just asking.
"The Bush administration unveiled its much-anticipated new immigration policy toward Cuba on Friday, quickening backlogged family visas, offering Cuban doctors who defect abroad easier access to the United States and denying visas to human rights violators."
That's sound good, now let's look at the rest of the whole thing:
"The government also pledged to alert exile families if relatives have been stopped at sea during interdiction operations -- often a major source of anguish for families who receive little or no information about loved ones held on Coast Guard cutters."
What happened until now was a violation of the rights of the Cuban refugees, who has been treated like enemies, even when they are fleeing a country which is officially an enemy of the United States on our own recognition and who are fleeing the most bloodthirsty tyranny ever known on this side of the Atlantic. This could have been done without fanfarre. But hey, politicians will be politicians.
The measures, contained in two separate written statements issued in Washington by the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are the first concrete steps by the U.S. government toward Cuba since Fidel Castro temporarily ceded power to his brother, Raúl, on July 31.
The situation in Cuba has not changed a bit, and now the tyranny is even more aggressive, so there's no cession of powers here, no transition, this is only a succession of powers to keep the Cuban people enslaved. The immigration reform is long overdue, and the application of the law towards Cuban refugees is more than flawed, as in the case of the application of the dry foot wet foot (President Clinton 1994) which violates by nature the Cuban Adjustment Act (President Johnson 1966)
They also constitute the first major modifications in how the Cuba-U.S. migration accords are administered since the deal was brokered in 1994 as a way to end a rafter exodus. Under the accords, Cuba agreed to restrict illegal departures in exchange for about 20,000 annual visas for Cubans wishing to emigrate to the United States. Repatriation of Cuban migrants interdicted at sea began in 1995.
Homeland Security unveiled the new measures on a day when U.S. Commerce Secretary Cárlos M. Gutierrez, a Cuban American, flew to Miami to tour a U.S. Agency for International Development warehouse in South Florida. The warehouse was stocked with supplies such as food and ''hygiene products,'' Gutierrez said during a meeting with The Miami Herald editorial board. Gutierrez said AID officials told him they could deliver the products to Cuba in four to six hours -- but only if aid is requested by Cubans once the Castro brothers are no longer in power.
In the meantime, the States are still free to keep doing business with kagasstro or his succesor, we cannot help the Cuban people so they are able to survive, this is again the old fable of killing the slaves to bankrup the slave master. The Cuban people is claiming for help, we are denying the help because, eh, the kasstro boys are in power, but the American agrobusiness and pharmacy industries are the first providers of food and medicine to a regime that then exports these goods and never reach the Cuban people. Again, another brilliant strategy to punish the victims and not touch a hair of the beard of their tormentor.
U.S. officials have said the new immigration measures are the result of many months of discussion and not a direct response to the leadership change in Havana.
Sorry, what leadership change? What change? Are you guys totally divorced from reality?
Nevertheless, a senior Homeland Security official suggested that the U.S. government is concerned about the possibility of a chaotic exodus from Cuba.
Which would be really good to destabilize the tyranny, and which would give the U.S. the opportunity to step to the plate and help liberate Cuba. It's interesting to see how we went to liberate Iraqis, but we can't liberate the country of the most suscessful community in the United States in the history of modern migrations. Can anybody tell me how the system works differently when we liberate people who hate America so much and we leave Cubans to fend for themselves?
''We urge the Cuban people to stay on the island, so that they may work for their freedom and a democratic society,'' Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Michael P. Jackson said in the written statement issued late Friday. ``We discourage anyone from risking their life in the open seas in order to travel to the United States.''
The agency also pledged to work with Congress to toughen penalties for migrant smugglers.
I have said it many times, the only way to eliminate the need Cubans have to take onto the sea on less than seaworthy crafts is to destroy the tyranny who oppresses them, that a full fledge tyranny, and to ask Cubans to revolt against it is as irrational as having ask Jews to depose Hitler or Ukrainian peasants to rebel against Stalin. Eliminate the tyranny, and Cubans will stay in Cuba. And then you will see rafts going towards Cuba from other countries.
South Florida's three Republican Cuban-American congressional representatives -- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart -- welcomed the new measures, reserving their biggest praise for the offer to make it easier for Cuban doctors to enter United States.
The three lawmakers lauded ``the Bush administration's announcement to allow doctors and other medical professionals, who have been sent abroad by the Cuban dictatorship, the possibility to immigrate to the United States.''
It has been difficult for Cuban doctors who defect in other countries to obtain U.S. visas because in many cases they are considered to be living in those countries and therefore have fewer rights to request U.S. protection. Tens of thousands of Cuban medical personnel are working abroad in dozens of countries -- about 20,000 in Venezuela alone -- and an estimated 500 have defected in recent years.
To facilitate these doctors to come to the States is a great step, and it should be extended to all Cubans who defect anywhere. Otherwise it'd be an incomplete measure. Also, the figures have to be revised, the estimate from Venezuelan sources is 4000 defections. As long as they don't impose a quota of them, this part is fine. How do you plan to get their families (who are kept hostage in Cuba) to the States?
Perhaps the most important measure is the decision to parole into the United States thousands more Cubans with close relatives here, thus reducing a backlog in family-based immigrant visas. While Homeland Security did not say how big the backlog is, it's said to be in the thousands.
Currently, Cubans who have a close relative who is a U.S. citizen get priority over exiles who are permanent residents. Green card holders seeking a visa for a spouse or a child in Cuba can wait four or five years to obtain a visa in Havana for a relative.
''The backlog is one of the factors behind illegal arrivals by sea,'' a source familiar with the discussions said.
I beg to disagree with the above paragraphs. The backlog has its origins in the amount of money required to process the paperwork, the bureaucracy in both the U.S. and Cuba, and in all the tricks played by the dictator. Again, photo service, notary public, and medical offices inside the USIS will help to ease the process for Cubans and to make it difficul to kasstro to interfere in it. Also, kasstro's forces are disrupting the long line outside the USIS, even trespassing into the USIS grounds and the U.S. Marines who are the custodians in the facility can't do anything about it. Why aren't these traspassing incidents considered a hostile action is something that needs some explaination. As some explaination is needed on why all the provocations against the U.S. diplomatic personnel go answerless
Under the new rules, green card holders who claim close relatives in Cuba will be able to get a visa within the year in which they file the application. U.S. consular officials will allocate 7,500 fewer visas to the annual visa lottery on the island and assign those to family petitions. The total annual number of visas will remain between 20,000 and 21,000.
That doesn't sound bad, but kasstro still have the power to decide who stays and who leaves, which actually makes all Cuban citizens hostages of a terrorist government, and this actually qualifies all the Cubans who are not members of the Communist Party or its repressive forces for asking for political asylum, under the current laws.
Taken together, the new measures amount to a strong signal that regardless of changes in Cuba, the Bush administration does not intend to abandon migration accords with Cuba in effect since 1994.
No, it sends the following signal: "whatever is happening, well, I am sorry the dry-foot wet foot is still on, and if somebody hits you with a 2 x 4 outside the USIS, go home put ice on the bruise and come back the following day"
But the announcement also conveys a sharp distinction between Cubans who apply for a visa and those who try to sneak past the Coast Guard vessels that patrol the Florida Straits. Under the new rules, those sent back will still be eligible for regular lottery visas but not the new family-based expedited petitions.
Isn't this totally contradictory? We send you back to the tyrant that doesn't let you leave, so go to the lottery line now. The message is: "Never mind that you took that raft of yours because your mother put the money, we gave you the visa, and kasstro never let you out"
Nothing in the new rules denies entry to Cubans who make it to shore - even if they succeed in evading Coast Guard vessels. The wet foot/dry foot policy and the Cuban Adjustment Act remain intact.
That's the problem, the wet foot dry foot is illegal as it contradicts the Cuban Adjustment Act, and besides it's totally inhuman. We are sending refugees back to a dictarship and now they can even be denied entry permanently.
However, a passage in the announcement raised the possibility that Cubans deemed to be human rights violators by the U.S. State Department may be denied admission. Homeland Security officials were not available late Friday to explain what this would mean to those who arrive by sea without permission.
They better make this clear. To do that, they should have a list of human rights violators handy. They are not very likely to come here, since they could be easily identified by their formers victims at it has already happened. The list should be made public and international legal action should be taken against those human rights violators, like it has been done in the past with other criminals.
But the source familiar with Bush administration discussions said the new rule means human rights abusers who apply for a visa in Cuba will be rejected, and if they make it to U.S. shores, they will be denied a green card.
This is kind of idiotic. A human right violator applying for a visa? Like Mengele... did he apply for an American visa? Who's the guy who writes all of that? Don't they know that human right violators work in the shades, along with terrorists and other like minded criminals????
However, there was no discussion on whether they would be detained or put in deportation proceedings. Cubans ordered deported are not sent back because Cuba generally rejects exiles.
Oh Lord, a human right violator is not an exile. Why any concers on what happened to them once you send them to Cuba? Is there any reason to be worried about them? Better, you can send them to Guantanamo Base with their litter, the Islamo-fascist terrorist that we have there.
By the way, how are the illegally deported Cubans who were sent to the Island after touching the Seven Miles Bridge covered by the new rules? Just asking.
2 Comments:
Wotta travesty, and deck chair shifting:
"The total annual number of visas will remain between 20,000 and 21,000."
The truth is that not 20000 Cubans per year want to reach the U.S., but millions.
The truth is that Cubans who risk their life for freedom are penalized even more now.
Is ANYONE else sick and tired of getting FUCKED up the ass by these Washingtonian polices PRETENDING they give a fuck?
How the FUCK is anyone going to get a Visa if they KaSStro government will beat the poor’s souls waiting in line to a bloody pulp BEFORE they enter the embassy ?
Who is this charade meant to apace? the POLITICOS the Miami GUYABERAS ? Secure some votes from the "Cuban Americans" who REALLY do not want any more Cubans in the USA. FUCK THEM ALL! 7,500 MORE visas? Oh man what an ACT of utter humanity ! Two more shanty towns are given the benediction !
In the meantime Muslims are parading into this country like big titted women into a strip joint.
And let’s not mention MEXICANS!
How fucking idiotic is this? Last year the Department of State admited that KaSStro was not even keeping HIS side of the bargain with the 20,000 yearly visas and only about 12,000 people have been allowed to emigrate even AFTER having the USA visas.
Is the US State Department THAT fucking stupid or do they think WE are that fucking stupid ?, Do they even KNOW what it takes to leave Kuba after you go through the whole song and dance of getting a USA visa ? How much it costs to get an EXIT Visa? THREE THOUSAND FUCKING DOLLARS ASSHOLES!
We are not only being shat on man, we are being used reused. Chewed up spit out and used as fertilizer. SHAME on all of them SHAME SHAME SHAME . Cubans WILL remember this. The USA is forcing Cubans in the island to extreme hatred towards THE NORTH . STOP the fucking charade Mr. Bush , stop the fucking charade you motherfucking politicos all those hyphenated Cuban-American motherfuckers. STOP IT -You give TWO fucks about Cubans, all you care about is your MIAMI votes!
And YOUR time will come and when it does I HOPE to GOD, Cubans in the island do not forget and with all the European money they WILL get, turn Miami, Las Vegas , Bahamas, Cancun . Jamaica and all of those other places who have fed out of their blood for 47 years into GHOST towns! If the USA THINKS that a battle against KaSStro was tough wait till they face a PISSED OFF democratic and capitalist Cuba with zillions of Cash from ANYONE (including CHINA). Eisenhower fucked it up 47 years ago , and where we go again. Cubans in a free Cuba WILL be so ANTI USA I do not doubt that there will not even be diplomatic relations. In fact at this point I am in favor of NOT having ANY god damn diplomatic relations with the USA. You throw CRUMBS at me in my hour of desperation? Wait and see what you’re gonna get from me, when I am breathing as free men and women!
Citizens of South Florida start putting up the FOR SALE signs ‘cause your property will be worth SHIT and you WILL not be welcome in the land of milk and honey !
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