Look at this number: 680 Cuban migrants denied asylum and returned to their island prison in the past eight weeks.
This includes two Cuban women who arrived in the U.S. via Europe, but were sent packing yesterday.
Various news outlets said they were “the first to be deported” since Obama’s January executive order, but this is simply not true. Call it “fake news” if you wish.
Today’s AP report exposes that lie. So do other reports, official and unofficial. Deportations of Cubans began immediately after Obama revoked the wet foot- dry foot policy.
Where’s the outrage? Where are the demonstrations?
Yesterday, the Associated Press falsely reported that the Trumpinator was about to use the National Guard to round up migrants, and even though the news was proven to be”fake”almost immediately, the usual subjects went ballistic, and are still raging.
Aaaaaah. But all those other migrants they care about aren’t Cuban.
Cubans are different. Yes, Mildred, they all deserve to be sent back, even those that have been living in the U.S. since the 1930’s.
Nothing new here, of course. But it’s always a shock to see the hypocritical double standard and the bigotry so clearly exposed.
I’m reminded of the audience member in Westport, Connecticut, who shouted at me “You people are ruining this country! It’s because of you people that everything has gone wrong here! Why don’t you shut up and go back where you came from!”
Ironically, this elderly gentleman was a Holocaust survivor.
It also reminds me of a colleague here at my institution to whom I was first introduced about twelve or thirteen years ago.
After being introduced, the first words out of his mouth were: “Oh, another member of the Cuban mafia?”
This colleague is revered in liberal political circles and holds one of the most prestigious chairs at Yale.
Hatred of Cubans runs deep in the veins of most liberals, for our “villainy” is part of their creed, an essential dogma, and it’s transmitted much like a virus, much like anti-Semitism.
And this virus can infect even those who should know better than to call for anyone’s expulsion or extermination.
From Granma Lite (Associated Press), via the Los Angeles Times:
680 Cubans returned home since end of ‘wet foot, dry foot’
About 680 Cubans have been returned to the island from various countries since then-President Barack Obama ended a longstanding immigration policy that allowed any Cuban who made it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, state television reported.
Cuba’s government had long sought the repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy, which it said encouraged Cubans to risk dangerous voyages and drained the country of professionals. The Jan. 12 decision by Washington to end it followed months of negotiations focused in part on getting Havana to agree to take back people who had arrived in the U.S.
Cuban state television said late Friday that the returnees came from countries including the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas, and were sent back to the island between Jan. 12 and Feb. 17. It did not break down which countries the 680 were sent back from.
The report said the final two returnees arrived from the United States on Friday “on the first charter flight especially destined for an operation of this type.”
Florida’s El Nuevo Herald newspaper reported that the two women were deemed “inadmissible” for entry to the United States and placed on a morning flight to Havana.
Wilfredo Allen, an attorney for one of the women, says they had arrived at Miami International Airport with European passports. The women requested asylum and were detained.
The repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy was Obama’s final move before leaving office in the rapprochement with the communist-run country that he and Cuban President Castro began in December 2014. The surprise decision left hundreds of Cubans stranded in transit in South and Central America.
Before he assumed the presidency on Jan. 20, Donald Trump criticized the detente between the U.S. and Cuba, tweeting that he might “terminate” it.
They hate us because we have spurned and called BS on their religion and have proved that one can do just fine without it. We have also refused to play grateful victims beholden to their “benefactors,” and since they cannot make us useful dependents, they have no use for us except as targets or scapegoats. And, of course, we have not only failed to see or treat them as they do themselves, but we have seen through them and rejected them accordingly. I mean, what’s not to hate?