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    Mexico: Cuban-Americans Fund Smugglers

    Mexico: Cuban-Americans Fund Smugglers
    Monday, December 10, 2007

    By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
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    MEXICO CITY —

    Cuban-Americans are financing the smuggling Cuban immigrants through Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, an illegal trade that is fomented by the U.S. policy of granting Cubans automatic asylum, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said Monday.

    A violent ring of immigrant smugglers operates in Mexico, where Cubans land on the coasts in rickety boats before crossing overland to the U.S. border, Medina Mora told reporters.

    "This has been legally proved, that people of Cuban origin but who are citizens of the United States are involved, financing these people-smuggling operations, obviously with the complicity of Mexicans," the attorney general said.

    "This has to do with U.S. policy toward Cubans," he said. "Those who make it to (U.S.) territory by their own means can get automatic refugee status, so that policy serves as an incentive" to smuggle Cubans here.

    Under the so-called "wet foot, dry foot" policy, the U.S. turns back Cubans intercepted on the seas but grants asylum to most who make it to shore. To avoid capture by U.S. authorities before making it to land, many Cubans decide to go through Mexico.

    Mexico is struggling to deal with a series of gangland-style slayings apparently related to the trafficking of migrants from Cuba, which lies only about 130 miles east of the Yucatan Peninsula, just slightly farther by boat from Cuba than Florida.

    In a new trend, nearly 90 percent of all undocumented Cubans who make it to the United States now travel overland rather than reaching U.S. shores by boat, according to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

    Mexico also is having problems with its burgeoning population of detained Cuban migrants, most of whom want to go to the U.S. Most Cubans are released after being held 90 days at a Mexican immigration center. Only about one-third of all those arrested in 2006 were repatriated to Cuba, Mexican migration officials say.

    Last week, three Cuban immigrants were treated for dehydration at a Mexican hospital after going on a hunger strike to demand release from a detention center. They were returned to the center and are awaiting decisions in their cases.

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    I have posted something similar in the past. What has happened is that the Coast Guard has gotten more high tech equipment and has been catching them at sea on go fast boats. Then they used a Central American Country, I think the Honduras as a place to drop off Cubans and then they would go on and use another form of transportation to get them in the U.S. The government enacted tough laws to end that practice so the Cubans began using Mexico. Well Mexico arrests Cubans and send them back. They also steal any money they may have to catch flights to the U.S. In one province Cuban smugglers were actually killed by the Mexicans.
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    Well Mexico arrests Cubans and send them back. They also steal any money they may have to catch flights to the U.S. In one province Cuban smugglers were actually killed by the Mexicans.




    Probably some are killed and robbed - however, I think probably more may just been charged some extra fees and helped along to the border.

    We need to end the policy toward Cuban refugees. I could see, maybe, the reasons for that for a year, maybe 2 after Castro took over to allow people who may have fought against Castro to get out - but now - no.
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    nntrixie: The Cubans don't want to deal with anyone but their own and that is why some smugglers have been killed by the Mexicans. Even here in Miami they often flock to their own people's businesses and hire their own people.
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