Thread: South Fl: 70 People Caught At Sea

To me any Cuban smuggled here should be considered illegal and deported as smuggling is an illegal act.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... ws-broward

South Florida: 70 people caught at sea sent back to Cuba

Posted July 12 2007


The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday returned 70 Cubans caught at sea in three separate incidents.

They included 39 people the Coast Guard found aboard a speedboat on Sunday about 20 miles south of Loggerhead Key, 18 Cubans found on Monday on a "rustic vessel" about 80 miles southwest of Key West and 13 people found Monday aboard an "unseaworthy vessel" about 20 miles north of Mariel, Cuba. All were returned to Bahia de Caba�as, Cuba.

The Coast Guard also caught two suspected smugglers with the first group and turned them over to Customs and Border Protection officials. Under the "wet foot dry foot" policy, Cubans found on the high seas are usually returned, while those who make it to U.S. soil are generally allowed to remain.

Same old crap as is happening at the Mexican border. Step 1: We catch them. Step 2: We return them. Step 3: They return at a later date. It's just one big circle jerk all the way around!

If we really want to deter these folks, it's time we start punishing them before booting them back to their homeland. We need massive retention centers along our Southern border with Mexico and in Florida. All individuals who enter illegally, including Cubans, need to do be held in these camps for 12 months prior to shipping them home. Furthermore, these folks need to be assigned out to local farms, governments, road work crews, etc. at minimum wage to pay for their 3 squares and cot. Of course each illegals will wear a personnel monitoring apparatus around their ankle while assigned to a work crew and each working group will be supervised by an armed guard. It'll be just like the old chain-gangs that used to operate in the South with one exception, a modern day monitoring ankle bracelets will replace the old iron ankle clasp and chains. wink:

Children 16 and under will be returned to their homeland to live with relatives. These relatives will be payed to care for the children with funds from the illegal parents working wages, minus our expenses. To guard against anchor babies, the same guidlines would also apply to pregnant females.