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Mendez, a Cuban-American and a popular Miami radio personality known as "DJ Laz," set out to get his boat back, succeeded, and even came face to face with the men who stole it. But it was just the tiniest of setbacks for a human-trafficking industry that is thriving off the Cuban exodus.
Because it has become so hard to dodge the U.S. Coast Guard and reach Florida to qualify for U.S. residency, Cuban migrants in recent years have been heading for Mexico, then overland to Texas. Last year 11,126 used that route, compared to just 1,055 who landed in the Miami area, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Evidence of this new escape route is stacking up at a Mexican Navy yard in Isla Mujeres, where the dock regularly runs out of space for seized Florida boats. During a visit to the small Navy dock last week, The Associated Press counted eight super-fast boats, all with Florida registration numbers.
Mexican authorities are getting fed up, and islanders fear the trafficking is bringing crime to laid-back Islas Mujeres, off Cancun.
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said on Sunday that Mexico and Cuba have agreed to return Cubans reaching Mexican shores illegally to the island.
Mexican officials would not comment on the agreement, which Perez Roque said was to be signed on Monday.
Cubans head for Mexico to dodge US sea patrols - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081019/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_smuggling_cubans - broken link)
Aw . the oligarchies of mexico don't like the taste of misery in reverse that they criminally hoist upon America by the millions? More mexican hypocrisy at it's finest. I just love karma . . . .
yep that makes sense ---since the word is look the other way. don't look dont tell has taken on new dimensions hasn't it.
Exactly. Funny how they can dish it out, but they can't take it. I hope millions of Cubans get stuck there and start breeding at the speed of sound. After which they should start marching, waiving the Cuban flag and demanding amnesty, free education with breakfast and lunch included in exchange for the courtesy of mexico not having to provide ESL classes since they already speak a version of spanish. The should also demand in state college tuition rates, jobs and that the oligarchies either set up a welfare system or provide checks, foodstamps and section 8 housing in exchange for the very hard work of Cubans procreating millions of mexican citizens by default.
Exactly. Funny how they can dish it out, but they can't take it. I hope millions of Cubans get stuck there and start breeding at the speed of sound. After which they should start marching, waiving the Cuban flag and demanding amnesty, free education with breakfast and lunch included in exchange for the courtesy of mexico not having to provide ESL classes since they already speak a version of spanish. The should also demand in state college tuition rates, jobs and that the oligarchies either set up a welfare system or provide checks, foodstamps and section 8 housing in exchange for the very hard work of Cubans procreating millions of mexican citizens by default.
The only problem is that both Cubans and Mexicans speak the same language----------and, likely would get along quite well with one another as individuals.
Well, I was quite excited over this article... until I read that the illegal Cubans are still making their way into the US. Their just using a new route!
That is really funny about the Mexicans, though. Poor them.
The only problem is that both Cubans and Mexicans speak the same language----------and, likely would get along quite well with one another as individuals.
You may be right but maybe not. Look at how they treat Guatemalen's who use mexico as their route to the US. Additionally, mexicans are resentful of the wet foot, dry foot policy because it grants the Cubans who make it onto our shores automatic citizenship.
This has been common for several years now, even Chinese illegals immigrants go via Mexico first. The thing is the USCG turns around about 17 illegals via sea each day, several times more than that enter through the border every day. This is one of the biggest issue Americans have to face this decade.
JDubs I am a first generation American of Cuban descent & you obviously don't know Cubans very well. Yes we are granted citizenship automatically but most who come here are tooken care of by relatives and family members.
We don't depend on the Government since it is a insult. Cubans are very proud & industrious people and I don't know any Cubans on welfare, Section 8 or foodstamps!
JDubs I am a first generation American of Cuban descent & you obviously don't know Cubans very well. Yes we are granted citizenship automatically but most who come here are tooken care of by relatives and family members.
We don't depend on the Government since it is a insult. Cubans are very proud & industrious people and I don't know any Cubans on welfare, Section 8 or foodstamps!
You misunderstood what I was implying. I was merely posing the scenario that I dream of happening to Mexico.
I pray that one day Mexico is invaded by millions of foreign nationals so that they can experience the anger and frustration that Americans feel as a result of the demands for special treatment courtesy of the illegal aliens from SOB. Sorry if I confused you.
End the dry foot - wet foot idiot campaign. What a joke.
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