There are major profits being made to keep the embargo in place. Also if the embargo is lifted they won’t be able to gain citizenship so easily. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. I believe Cuba is the only country where citizens can flee and obtain US citizenship including Social Security and every other benefit.
They can get an expedited permanent residence (green card) after being here for one year I believe. Things were always dodgy. The wet foot, dry foot rules may have been ended though. That was a non official term for a policy created by Clinton. If your feet are on dry land, you can stay, if your feet are in a boat/raft/etc you were sent back to Cuba. There was a year where tens of thousands of Cubans that were trying to float across to florida. Rigging old cars up to makshift rafts in an effort to flee Cuba and make it to the U.S. That is where the slur “raft drifter” came about for Cubans I believe. Obama changed something to try to discourage that practice, traveling 100+ miles (160+ KM) in open water with makeshift transports Im sure was the end for to many lives. It’s horrible what people do to each other. The shit they had to go through to feel that was the necessary risk to better their families lives. Then the voyage, and then being treated like shit anyways if they got here.
I guess all we need to do is inform Republican voters of this fact and instantly their position on the embargo will change.
I count on their racism and hatred of the “other” way more than their hatred for an economic/governmental system they don’t even understand. I’d imagine the typical voter would say “fuck that, I’m not paying for their social security, they can rot in the communist hellhole they created for themselves!”
There are major profits being made to keep the embargo in place. Also if the embargo is lifted they won’t be able to gain citizenship so easily. Someone correct me if I’m wrong. I believe Cuba is the only country where citizens can flee and obtain US citizenship including Social Security and every other benefit.
They can get an expedited permanent residence (green card) after being here for one year I believe. Things were always dodgy. The wet foot, dry foot rules may have been ended though. That was a non official term for a policy created by Clinton. If your feet are on dry land, you can stay, if your feet are in a boat/raft/etc you were sent back to Cuba. There was a year where tens of thousands of Cubans that were trying to float across to florida. Rigging old cars up to makshift rafts in an effort to flee Cuba and make it to the U.S. That is where the slur “raft drifter” came about for Cubans I believe. Obama changed something to try to discourage that practice, traveling 100+ miles (160+ KM) in open water with makeshift transports Im sure was the end for to many lives. It’s horrible what people do to each other. The shit they had to go through to feel that was the necessary risk to better their families lives. Then the voyage, and then being treated like shit anyways if they got here.
I guess all we need to do is inform Republican voters of this fact and instantly their position on the embargo will change.
I count on their racism and hatred of the “other” way more than their hatred for an economic/governmental system they don’t even understand. I’d imagine the typical voter would say “fuck that, I’m not paying for their social security, they can rot in the communist hellhole they created for themselves!”