25,000 Outstand Deportation Orders

[PolWatch]

This is an interesting side effect of the thaw in American/Cuban relations. I thought the Cubans in America objected to the thaw because of anti-Castro feelings....now I wonder if they were just afraid of deportation.

'The future is murky for tens of thousands of Cuban immigrants who have been ordered by immigration authorities to leave the country, with the United States and Cuba moving closer to fully restoring diplomatic ties, including re-opening embassies for the first time in 54 years. As many as 25,000 Cubans living in the United States have outstanding deportation orders, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They include people who pose a threat to national security or have serious criminal convictions and are considered priorities for immigration enforcement agents.

Despite being an enforcement priority, those immigrants haven't yet been sent back to Cuba because the government of President Raul Castro has not given them permission to return. It's unclear whether the Cuban government's position will change.
A 1984 repatriation agreement includes a list of 2,746 people who had come to the U.S. in 1980 as part of the Mariel boatlift who should be deported. The mass migration from Cuba to Florida started when then-President Fidel Castro announced he would allow anyone who wanted to leave the Communist island nation. An estimated 125,000 Cubans made the perilous trip between April and October 1980.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement records show that 1,999 people on that list have been sent back to Cuba, including 1,093 since 2001. ICE is responsible for finding and removing immigrants living in the country illegally and those who have been ordered to leave. More than 35,000 Cubans have outstanding deportation orders, and as of the end of March, more than 2,300 other Cubans have open cases pending in U.S. immigration court. ICE said of those, about 25,000 are considered deportation priorities because of their backgrounds, including criminal histories.

http://news.yahoo.com/tens-thousands...151752565.html

[whatukno]

HOLY $#@!!

Time to buy real estate in Miami! It's about to become a ghost town!

lol

[PolWatch]

This issue has all the earmarks of a political hot potato for both parties. Continue to allow those with outstanding deportation orders to stay and win the support of the Cuban voters? Insist on deportation and lose the Cuban voters? Ignore the subject & hope nobody notices?

Clinton lost support for dems in the Cuban community over the Elian Gonzalez incident and the repubs gained a lot of Cuban support.....giving repubs a stronger position in the swing state of Florida. Now, the repub candidates are talking about deportation of illegal immigrants....have they thought of how this will play in Florida?

Recent polls indicate that the repub trend has been slowly reversing giving dems hope in Florida. This question is going to be a political hot potato for both parties! The exaggerated importance that Florida has played in recent presidential elections is gonna really get interesting!

'Cubans in the U.S. have long identified with or leaned toward the Republican Party, even as Hispanics overall have tilted Democrat. But the party affiliation of Cubans has undergone a shift over the past decade, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of survey data.

Less than half (47%) of Cuban registered voters nationwide now say they identify with or lean toward the Republican Party—down from the 64% who said the same about the GOP a decade ago, according to 2013 survey data. Meanwhile, the share of Cubans who identify with or lean toward the Democratic Party has doubled from 22% to 44% over the same time period, according to the survey of Hispanics.

The Cuban population in the U.S. is centered in Florida, home to seven-in-ten of the nation’s 2 million Cuban-origin Hispanics. In the 1960s, the state’s Cuban immigrant population boomed as many left the island after Fidel Castro’s rise to power. The concentration of Cuban voters subsequently helped push the overall Hispanic vote toward the Republican Party in the Sunshine State. In 2004, for example, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush won 78% of the Cuban vote in Florida, compared with 56% of the state’s Hispanics overall. '

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank...ocratic-party/

[Perianne]

It speaks something about our country that the decision to deport illegal immigrants comes down to how it will benefit political parties.

[PolWatch]

It speaks something about our country that the decision to deport illegal immigrants comes down to how it will benefit political parties.

of course....it is all about how it will play with the voters. Trump's opening speech targeted Mexicans, completely ignoring the fact that the numbers of illegals from Mexico has been steadily declining. Even when the information became known, it was ignored in favor of the initial statement that garnered so much publicity.

[Mr. Right]

Trump rightly sees anyone crossing that Southern border as "part of the problem", not just the "Mexicans"..

[PolWatch]

Trump rightly sees anyone crossing that Southern border as "part of the problem", not just the "Mexicans"..

Probably. I think that someone who aspires to be president would be more specific....even if not concerned with accuracy.