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From: LindyBill6/8/2005 11:29:32 AM
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TOO SAD
Bothwell blog

Just once I'd like to hear our "open borders" (read: illegal immigration) activists actually advocate on behalf of Cuban refugees. From the South Florida Sun-Sentinel:

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a bright blue vintage taxicab bobbing in the waves 20 miles off Key West Tuesday, marking the third time in two years that Cuban migrants piloted a retrofitted 1950s-era car across the Florida Straits.

At least six people were inside the station wagon. At about 7:30 p.m. two Coast Guard boats pulled alongside the floating jalopy, and Coast Guardsmen passed life jackets to those inside. The incident was broadcast live by South Florida Sun-Sentinel news partner WTVJ-Ch. 6.

So why such absence of support? Is it the Left's romanticism with communism that blinds them to the plight of Cuban refugees? Is it the fact that most Cubans tend to vote Republican? Or is it because any acknowledgment that people actually risk death to leave a communist country would weaken their quest to further implement their socialist agenda here in the U.S.?

I suspect it's a combination of all three. But it's absolutely reprehensible that so many people fail to recognize or admit how desperate one must have to be to attempt to sail a taxicab across an ocean!"
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