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Common
01-26-2016, 01:55 PM
Once again this is all Obama


At least 7,000 Cuban refugees are expected to come to the border in the next coming days.The activity at the Hidalgo International Bridge continues. For 40 years, Jose Angel Rodriguez has made his living driving a cab.
He said he’s seeing more Cubans crossing the port of entry. “They get here every night, in the morning, and at night they get here. They go to Laredo, too,” Rodriguez said.
Rodriguez remembered taking a few to a hotel or store. It gets busier each week that passes by.
Down the road from the bridge were a handful of 15-passenger vans. They had Florida license plates. Giovanni Acosta is one of them.
“In Cuba, there’s nothing. There’s no freedom. We came from Cuba because the pressure that we have there,” Giovanni Acosta said.
Acosta said he’s waiting for his wife to come to the bridge so he can take her back to Miami. She’s taking the same track as he once did. “I did the same path, like all the Cubans did. I came from Ecuador. I walked for 27 days on the road,” he said.
Congressman Henry Cuellar’s office said Cuban refugees are coming to Laredo’s Point of Entry every day and the numbers are increasing. They’re coming from Central America through Mexico to the border.
Acosta’s van can take more than just his family. He said he can help the Cuban refugees, but his goal is to pick up his family, to bring them safely back home.
CHANNEL 5 NEWS spoke to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to see if they were prepared for the influx. They released a statement that said in part, "U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is prepared to process the expected increase in Cubans applying for admission at South Texas ports of entry. CBP officers will process Cuban nationals in accordance with established procedures as expeditiously as possible while maintaining requirements and standards for individuals in our care."


http://www.krgv.com/story/31053253/thousands-of-cuban-refugees-crossing-the-border

Common Sense
01-26-2016, 02:08 PM
7,000 out of a 11 million. More Americans are immigrating to Canada than Cubans going to the US.

As someone who has spent time in Cuba, I can say that it is changing quickly. It's certainly no utopian socialist paradise, but with recent changes there is a growing entrepreneurial market.

Hopefully with strengthened American relations it will change even quicker.

Mac-7
01-26-2016, 02:10 PM
7,000 out of a 11 million. More Americans are immigrating to Canada than Cubans going to the US.

As someone who has spent time in Cuba, I can say that it is changing quickly. It's certainly no utopian socialist paradise, but with recent changes there is a growing entrepreneurial market.

Hopefully with strengthened American relations it will change even quicker.

Then you take them.

we dont need them here

Common Sense
01-26-2016, 02:11 PM
Then you take them.

we dont need them here

I don't know, I think you could use them. Cubans typically do very well for themselves in the US. Sometimes their kids run for president.

Mac-7
01-26-2016, 02:16 PM
I don't know, I think you could use them. .

What you think doesnt matter.

you can speak for canada but not for my country

Common Sense
01-26-2016, 02:17 PM
What you think doesnt matter.

you can speak for canada but not for my country

So don't respond. I'll keep saying whatever I like though. I don't need some foreigners permission.

Mac-7
01-26-2016, 02:21 PM
So don't respond. I'll keep saying whatever I like though. I don't need some foreigners permission.

The topic is America so you are the foreigner here.

nathanbforrest45
01-26-2016, 02:30 PM
When Castro came to power and was murdering his countrymen thousands of Cubans came to the US. They were hard working, industrious people who were used to earning their way. Many came here as professionals but took whatever job was available until they could get established. I worked as a bag boy for Winn Dixie in Jacksonville FL at the time. I had a Cuban refugee working right along side me. He had been a doctor in Cuba but couldn't practice here until he passed his medical exams. Almost all of the upper management in Miami is Cuban (contrary to opinion not all Hispanics in Miami are Cuban, most are from Central America).

The modern Cuban has had 60 years of being taken care of by the government. All of their work ethic has been bred out of them. Cubans coming here today are not coming here because they lost their businesses in Cuba but because the welfare they receive from our government will buy them more than the welfare they receive from Castro.

Common Sense
01-26-2016, 02:43 PM
When Castro came to power and was murdering his countrymen thousands of Cubans came to the US. They were hard working, industrious people who were used to earning their way. Many came here as professionals but took whatever job was available until they could get established. I worked as a bag boy for Winn Dixie in Jacksonville FL at the time. I had a Cuban refugee working right along side me. He had been a doctor in Cuba but couldn't practice here until he passed his medical exams. Almost all of the upper management in Miami is Cuban (contrary to opinion not all Hispanics in Miami are Cuban, most are from Central America).

The modern Cuban has had 60 years of being taken care of by the government. All of their work ethic has been bred out of them. Cubans coming here today are not coming here because they lost their businesses in Cuba but because the welfare they receive from our government will buy them more than the welfare they receive from Castro.

...and you know this how exactly? I've traveled around Cuba. Many of them are indeed hard working people. In fact they are very industrious people with very limited resources. A great example of that is how they've kept classic cars on the road for 50 plus years with no access to parts.

nathanbforrest45
01-26-2016, 02:45 PM
...and you know this how exactly? I've traveled around Cuba. Many of them are indeed hard working people. In fact they are very industrious people with very limited resources. A great example of that is how they've kept classic cars on the road for 50 plus years with no access to parts.


They do just enough to keep from starving. I can't help it if you were so gullible you actually believed that your handlers showed you was the true Cuba. Forced labor is never efficient labor.

exotix
01-26-2016, 02:48 PM
I'm not see'ng the big deal ... these are Cruz and Rubio voters despite their shame of being Cuban minorities.

Common Sense
01-26-2016, 02:49 PM
They do just enough to keep from starving. I can't help it if you were so gullible you actually believed that your handlers showed you was the true Cuba. Forced labor is never efficient labor.

Again, you know this how exactly? I traveled freely without any "handlers" in Cuba, unless my wife is deep undercover.

Cigar
01-26-2016, 04:21 PM
I hope they didn't get the Cigars Wet