This is the fucking right-wing hypocrisy that I hate

[RagingInMiami]

While everybody is up in arms about immigration these days, and we know damn well that it will be the issue that will divide the country before the 2006 election, the administration is ensuring that it won't piss off its Cuban right-wing base by making it even easier for Cuban immigrants to enter the country.

A new ruling states that if you were born to Cuban parents outside of Cuba, you are entitled to apply for permanent residency. So much for them getting priority over other immigrants because of their status as "political refugees" coming from a communist country.

After all, if you were born to Cuban parents in Mexico, you're no more of a political refugee than the thousands of Mexicans who are forced to enter this country illegally.

But unlike the Cubans, Mexican-Americans, as well as other Hispanic groups, tend to vote democrat.


Associated Press

MIAMI -- The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has expanded the list of documents that people born to Cuban parents outside Cuba can use to apply for permanent residency in the United States.

For years, the agency routinely rejected green card applications that did not include a Cuban birth registry, citizenship certificate or passport to prove Cuban citizenship.

Now, as a result of a June 30 decision from immigration authorities, the U.S. government will also accept several other documents, including a Cuban Civil Registry document, as long as they are signed by an appropriate Cuban official and prove Cuban citizenship, a CIS spokeswoman said Saturday.

The decision could potentially impact thousands of Cuban nationals who have been turned down for green cards in the past, including a large number of Venezuelans with Cuban parents.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-0708immigration,0,2825376.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[Erika]

1. W is pandering to Florida for GOP votes

What's new?

[peacelovingguy1978]

2. confused

"thousands of Mexicans who are forced to enter this country illegally"

Just kind of confused about that comment a bit. Who is forcing them to come here illegally? They do it on their own...

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[Erika]

8. To make a better living for their family

They've gone global just like the economy. Your problem?

[fearthem]

4. To follow these goons, it'll, more and more, take a strong constitution...

I can't let them make me sick -- reading the daily news is like drinking poison. I think I'm going to begin taking smaller daily doses of their corruption as it's just too much anger to carry around daily.

[NMMNG]

5. Isn't that special?

So now the "war on immigration" is specifically a "war on Mexicans".

[Heidi]

6. It's been that way for a long time. I think they're just now making it

official, sadly. I've never figured out how economic oppression is any less oppressive than political oppression.

[Erika]

7. Does Jesus hate Mexicans?

Did he draw a line in which he said those who live in Mexico don't deserve rights that those in the North do?

[Heidi]

9. I agree with you 100 percent, Erika.

Our immigration policy discriminates on the basis of nationality, and I find that really, really troubling. What do you want to bet that my husband would find it much easier to legally immigrate to the US being Swiss, than if he were Mexican?

[Erika]

10. I guess Jesus will rule on our treatment of others

if you believe in Him. The right wingers and the GOP can't live without the illegal immigrants and their accepting cheap wages and pouring in profits to the rich.