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#1300: haiti/cuba/miami (fwd)
From: oloffsonram <oloffsonram@globelsud.net>
i just spent the weekend in miami and the big scandal there is about
this six year old cuban boy whose mother died when their boat capsized
on route from cuba to miami...i kept seeing images of the boy
celebrating his birthday, surrounded by family playing with a racing
car set....they were saying that he shouldn't be sent back to cuba and
his father because of the social/political conditions in cuba...i keep
wondering to myself, had the boy been haitian instead of cuban, would
he have already been returned to haiti?...would he have been put in a
detainment facility, or would he have been partying with his relatives
in miami?...who makes these decisions?...miami cubans?.. americans?...
whats going on?....is it a race issue or a nationality issue?... the
cuban refugees i've seen on television are light skinned, whats that
all about...when you look at healthcare and education in cuba, they're
light years ahead of haiti..if cuban conditions warrant that refugees
shouldn't be repatriated, what does that say for haitian conditions and
haitian refugees... are miami cubans refining their electorate
(dominican style)?...
i wish only the best for the six year old cuban boy but he's only the
tip of the iceburg.....
richard morse