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Cubans sent to Gitmo to save them from persecution?

by growthrate
Tue Aug 15th, 2006 at 06:19:41 PM EST

CNN is reporting that the US is detaining about 50 Cubans at Guantanamo Bay. It seems these individuals have, at various times, attempted to migrate to the US, but US authorities intercepted them at sea.

Ordinarily, US authorities would simply have repatriated these individuals to Cuba, under the US's sensitively-named "wet foot-dry foot" policy. So what are they doing at Gitmo?

But after interviews aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutters it was determined that those migrants appeared to meet the standard of having a well-founded fear of persecution if repatriated and, therefore, were diverted to Guantanamo, the exile group [Democracy Movement] said.
The exile group said Cubans can be held at the base until the United States can find a third country that will take them.

Yup. They've been sent to Gitmo to protect them from persecution.

Your tax dollars at work.

Cubans sent to Gitmo to save them from persecution? | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I'm just speechless (4.00 / 2)

Could I be reading this wrong?

by growthrate on Tue Aug 15th, 2006 at 06:20:28 PM EST

Unfortunately not, (4.00 / 2)

it's actually standard practice when there's a larger-than-normal wave of people.

The CSC unit arrived in Cuba on 23 December 1994, approximately 5 months after initiation of care by Air Force personnel. The CSC assets included three psychiatrists, one psychologist, two social work officers, two psychiatric nurses, one occupational therapist, three behavioral science specialists, one psychiatric technician, one administrative officer, and one mechanic. At the time of arrival, there were approximately 30,000 Cuban and 7,000 Haitian refugees housed in the camps at Guantanamo Bay. Individual tents housed approximately 30 refugees. - linkage

That particular wave of Cuban immigrants stemmed from political calculations, as always. Dirty tricks on all sides

BTW, the US just relaxed their immigration policies towards Cuba last week in light of Fidel's health.

h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail.com) on Tue Aug 15th, 2006 at 06:43:06 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Hmmm I dunno Growthrate (4.00 / 2)

might be just another notch in their plan to DETAIN anyone they please for any reason they want.

Scary &^%t is going on.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix

by Damnit Janet on Tue Aug 15th, 2006 at 06:33:26 PM EST

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