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Judi Lynn

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11. I wondered if she didn't mean they are taking them from prison to send home,
Mon Feb 22, 2016, 06:10 PM
Feb 2016

instead of keeping them for a full sentence.

I don't grasp that one, either.

I do know the main thrust of her article is to point those who are not informed toward the awareness Cubans, who are NOT coming from violent situations, are allowed to stay here from the moment they arrive, never spending a moment's worry about being rounded up and thrown out, but, instead, given instant legal status, instant access to work visas, social security, food stamps, section 8 US taxpayer-financed housing, medical treatment, welfare, even financial assistance for education.

Quite a universe away from what greets the human beings from war-torn countries of Central America, Haiti, etc., where the people very likely will returned to be subjected to the same deep suffering they were trying so hard to escape, and many to be murdered like others have been murdered in the very recent past.

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