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Judi Lynn

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8. The difference in the way Cuban immigrants have been treated, and other Caribbean,
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 07:38 PM
Dec 2014

or Central American immigrants have been treated is horrific.

If the same deal were offered to Mexicans, Haitians, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Jamaicans, etc., there would be so many people here we wouldn't have room to turn around!

Outrageous, brutal, shabby, and just plain vicious. All for politics.

Who can forget the fact the US outfitted, and trained Haitian paramilitaries (death squads) right across the border in the Dominican Republic, who stormed into Haiti to overthrow Aristide AGAIN, slaughtering supposed Artistide supporters wherever they found them, leaving them dying in the streets as they moved toward the capital.

When surivors tried desperately to flee Haiti to get to the US, George W Bush used the US Navy and the Coast Guard to surround Haiti, and turn everyone back, feeding them right back into that meat grinder to die. All that just to keep them from immigrating to save their lives and those of their childrens.

Hideous behavior from someone purporting the be the leader of a very large, powerful country.

The way people have been used as pawns has been downright evil.

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