Originally Posted by Taichiliberal View Post
Really? Because before Castro's prison dump, any Cuban who washed up on the shores as a refugee or seeking asylum was granted certain rights (due prosecution under the law, not automatic deportation). And before the Wall fell, people showing up at airports and docks without proper papers and such got a favorable treatment because they were fleeing communism. Remember the Vietnamese "boat people".
Poor Earl....all headline and no story.
This is because of the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy, which since 1995 has granted Cubans who touch American soil a privilege not afforded other immigrants who come without a visa: the right to stay and get on a fast track to citizenship.
Obama ended this interpretation of the policy.
There is no such policy for those crossing our borders illegally from Mexico.
So, when an illegal crosses our borders illegally to apply for asylum, he/she does so illegally.
There is a procedure and a place to apply for asylum and it doesn’t involve swimming across the Rio Grande and crossing our borders without documentation.
Poor Taichi.