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Showing Original Post only (View all)8000 "stranded" Cubans coming to Miami! Miami schools request emergency $$ for influx. More coming. [View all]
Guess who's paying for the final (to Miami) leg of their trip?
Yep.
First of 8,000 stranded Cuban migrants cross into US
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Cubans paid for their own trips, including the flights from Costa Rica to El Salvador. Many of them cashed in all their belongings and traveled with their life savings to reach the U.S.
Central American governments will evaluate the pilot program in the next few days for the rest of the migrants, said Kathya Rodriguez, Costa Rica's migration director. She estimates they will need 28 more flights to move all the stranded Cubans out of shelters.
Article --> here.
They'll be made fully legal within 24 hours. Instant work permit. Instant qualification for Social Security and SNAP cards, plus, bumped to the top of the list for Section 8 housing (with an income exemption up to $40k for Cubans only). Plus, all of the benefits granted to Cubans only via "Wet Foot / Dry Foot", The Cuban Adjustment Act, and a plethora of low-cost and free benefits from Florida and Miami-Dade and the City of Miami... for Cuban "exiles" only.
Sweet deal. US socialism - for Cubans only - is better than Cuba's socialism.
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8000 "stranded" Cubans coming to Miami! Miami schools request emergency $$ for influx. More coming. [View all]
Mika
Jan 2016
OP
I support full normalization between US and Cuba. No special treatment for Cubans over all others.
Mika
Jan 2016
#15
How could ANYONE be so dim-witted to ignore what has been a scandal for decades,
Judi Lynn
Jan 2016
#8
That was THEIR choice, Spanky. Daddy doesn't come over and drive them back home. n/t
Judi Lynn
Jan 2016
#10
If they are fleeing Cuba, then they should be grateful to stay anywhere but Cuba. But, no, ....
Mika
Jan 2016
#12
They are still going to come, law or no law. Immigration laws haven't stopped people
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2016
#16
They are still going to come. Law or no law. They don't want to stay in Cuba
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2016
#20
Absolutely. They shouldn't even have "special treatment" with getting 20,000 visas
Bacchus4.0
Jan 2016
#22