What do you think about the trafficking of illegal Cubans through the Florida stretch?
823791
Do you mean the people or the cigars?  :o)\n\nSue
901619
I just read in some ones Answers that it was illegal to feed the homeless in Fl. That is horrible I really am shocked Florida should not be allow to do that. I think Fl should be in trouble for that.
595841
I hope that this new law gets past through, that would make them all felons. Then they could go back to thier countries and sit in jail. They should have arrested all the illegals yesterday and deported them pronto.\n\nI think that they are breaking the law and should be punished. They don't deserve anything special for being where they are not supposed to be. Just because they crossed the border doesn't mean anything. They are not citizens, and they have no rights. \nIt should be like India, a tall razor wire fence, patrolled by the military, and if they jump over, shoot.
627716
good grief. ive seen nothing but lame answers so far except for a few. let me break it down for ya. they are planning on legilization of drugs in mexico. yes and it is all drugs. so yes some mexican guy can walk around all geeked up on coke. is it the mob taking over? no. vincent fox is signing the bill into law to crack down on the gangs selling the drugs. these are the same gangs fighting each other for the lucritive US pipeline. they did propose limits on how much you could carry on your person without being bothered by the police which i can tell you is not much.\n\n\noh and far as legalization in the US. hard drugs i say no. marijauna i say yes. i dont even smoke the stuff but i think it should be legal. its only a gateway drug for people who just want to get F****** up. the highschool health classes are filling your heads with a bunch of lame crap. to all the young teenage kids out there, you havent began to see life for what it really is so what im saying probably wouldnt make sense to you. but anyways if marijauna were treated like alcohol it would work in the system.
141048
Do you really want to know all the details of why such ports are being given to a Middle-eastern business to run?  What if it is a sting operation?  Should we just publish the details and fight it?  Isn't that what we're doing?\nLeave it alone.  Bush knows what he is doing.
679623
Because whether it is right or wrong to do, it's a political loser.\n\nWhoever votes to lift the embargo will lose Florida in the election. Then there is the sugar agri-businesses, who would then have Cuban cane sugar to compete with. More political costs.\n\nLet's face it - politicrits are re-election whores at heart, and have no courage to make such a bold move.\n\nPersonally, I am against trade with any of those bad countries. But I understand that politics and principle rarely mix.
648452
Apparently, they are fleeing a communist regime. Just because Cuba is communist doesn't mean that it is the worst country in the world for its citizens. Try Haiti. Try countries in Africa. Try Southeastern Asia. Try Afghanistan. Our immigration laws should be more compassionate and should strive to help those who are MOST IN NEED. It shouldn't help illegals that broke the law. It shouldn't help those who the US wants to immigrate here just so that the government can embarass Castro. IT HASN'T WORKED IN 40 YEARS!!!!! Cubans should go through the process LIKE EVERYONE ELSE!!!!
87876
Human trafficking (the buying and selling of human beings for sex, work, etc.) is everywhere. There could even be instances of it where you live. Most cases of trafficking involve citizens of a particular country paying money in order to obtain passage into the U.S. (or other country) only to be trafficked and sold to the highest bidder. It has also been the cause of American citizens' disappearances in other countries. \n\nIt is estimated that more than 1 million people are trafficked annually around the world; some experts say it could be double that. U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reports it has made 5,400 arrests and obtained 2,300 convictions in cases of human trafficking and smuggling since 2003.\n\nI personally have attended several conferences in and around the Philadelphia area on this topic. It is a problem that not many people are aware of, but is a growing problem in the U.S. and elsewhere. Big hot spots for trafficking include South Florida, Texas, and New York.
480145
The embargo could hardly be called a new event since it was put in place by John Kennedy. Why don't you do one based on the soon to take place change of power in Cuba. What will happen when Fidel dies? Or about how even with the increases in tourism to Cuba in recent years, the everyday person is still denied access to visiters and the illeagality of cuban ownership of any kind of foreign currency.
1166520
WAY TOO DAMN MANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I KNOW that it costs the TAXPAYERS,i believe it was $55,000 a year for EACH prisoner!!!!\n\n And,for those of you who keep BITCHING, about the fact that,"we have a lot of people in prison who are NOT illegals". Why don't you try EXPLAINING this, to the little girl that was MOLESTED by an illegal,last week in Florida!!! Or the eight month pregnant woman that got beaten by three illegals,or the old couple that took in some illegals,fed them,gave them water,then the illegals beat the CRAP out of the old man and ROBBED them!!\n\n Although this is TRUE, that there are a lot of crimes  committed by citizens, unfortunately,we can NOT deport our OWN citizens!!  But,what you FAIL to realize,EVIDENTLY, is that the CRIMES committed by ILLEGALS, should NEVER have happened!!! And WOULDN'T have happened,had they not SNEAKED into our country!!!
53269
Not that I'm aware.  Just curious, though:  What illegal drugs do you think we would be exporting?
1091747
I also feel this law is outdated and should be abolished.  In fact, just tonight, I watched a show on TV that said that some years back the Cuban government released all of their worst criminals and put them on shoddy boats aimed towards the USA in order to get rid of their worst criminals and take advantage of the stupid foot on dry land law for Cubans.  I don't understand why the USA isn't quicker at changing laws that are outdated.  Other countries are so quick to take advantage and they obviously keep right up to the minute on what our laws are.  \n\nRegardless, we still have laws about immigration and I want them enforced and I want ALL illegal immigrants deported and I want this done asap, regardless of the cost, because I believe the cost will be less to the American taxpayers in the long run.  If our immigration laws are outdated, they should  be updated, and if things take too long, they should be changed so that applications can be expedited, but the USA has a right to determine who they want for immigrants and how many of them they want and where they should live and what types of jobs they will do.  It is unfair that they flock to certain states and towns and so overburdening the social services, school systems, corrections systems, and medical care of those areas.  With proper immigration systems, people are told where they can go.  The immigrants aren't the ones to decide where they will go - the government has the say as to where they can go.  With illegal immigration - they flock to wherever they want and this causes some areas to be overburdened and without the proper tax basis to support them and actually causing a negative effect on the legal US citizens and immigrants in those areas.\n\nThere is a real, sane reason why a country should have a say in who gets in and where they will go.
973486
We aren't honest about the problem.  For the most part, this is a national security issue having to do with mexico.  Quite literally, mexico has created a black market industry that rivals oil exportation as its main source of revenue.  This has horrible consequences for both us and mexico.  Drugs have a direct effect on our population but the money sent back to mexico creates a situation where the most heinously evil people have tons of power.  We are seeing the result right now as the mexican government is only a few short steps from being overthrown and being replaced with a communist/totalitarian government fueled by drug money.  Mexico has become the type of place where you are out dancing at a club, minding your own business when all of a sudden a group of gunmen burst in and toss a bunch of severed heads on the stage as a warning to people.\n\nSolving this is quite direct.  Shut down the border and seal it tight.  The methamphetamines issue is even simpler to solve.  Get rid of certain OTC cold medications and it becomes very difficult to manufacture them.
1092978
did you know who is paying for obradors campagne/////Fidel castro and hugo Chavez,,,did you now that the rich people from mexico are calling real estate agents in the usa to purchase homes in case obrador wins....they are saying if obrador wins it will be another cuba. reason, fidel castro came in cuba in 1959 saying that all poor people will be just like the rich///but little did the cuban people know that fidel was going to rob the rich and give to him self...cuba is a dissaster///I should know I am cuban, People in mexico need to be wise for whom they vote for, this is their future....mexico is a beautiful country, has numerous natural resources, mexico has alot to offer, but you guys need a president that will lift the economy, lifting mexicos economy, you guys would have to work for pennies here, and get insulted by people that directly or indirectly uses your resources, I hear all these people shouting, got back to your country, but mexicans work hard, and of coarse there are sme bad apples, but dont we have those everywhere, but go out and vote make a good choice, remember it is not only your future is it your peoples future.\n                         GOOD LUCK and I hope Mexico prospers and that one Day other countries will want to migrate there instead of here, darnet dont they already do that, viva latin america.\n                LOVE from cuba,,,
1051660
the illegal ones have no right to be here ....PERIOD !!\n It is an insult to the many who have gone through the legal channels...try to get into Mexico illegally and steal their jobs,health care,governament grants,change their language & all their road signs and see were it lands you.\n I am not racist....I just believe the USA has allowed way too many to come here illegally....a few years ago a Cuban boy ,in Florida,was taken by the SWAT team,sent by sweetheart Rino...and sent back to Cuba to a father he didn't really know....how much money was wasted on all that?\n The people who are REALLY discriminated against are the Christians...they are not even allowed to display a nativity scene at Christmas time ?? The 10 Commandments are a hate crime...say God bless you and you offend someone...I just wonder how much money & time our nation has watsed on all this...when our nation was founded for the Christains to have the freedom to worship,without the government stepping in and controlling the churches....Seperation of Church & State was written so that wouldn't happen..yet it's turned & twisted now to make it the church HAS to OBEY the courts(governmentally ...appointed judges) or be sent to jail,fined,told they are "haters".....Now that's REAL discrimination in action !!\n Round up all those with Visas and those who are here legally,put a VeriChip in them...to keep track of their expired status....when it's up...home they go....the ones who can not prove they have a LEGAL right to be here...send them back home.helping the leagl Americans find a job....it's .cheaper than suporting them with free medical treatment,housing & food....which every hard working tax payers has to pay for...while our own LEGAL citizens go without.
1013589
Good, now don't make it a band-aid for our dying country and make it mean something.\n\nI hope it's not a political statement for votes to keep them here.\n\nKeep walking bud.\n\nNow THIS was interesting:\n\nAnother man caught in the recent blitz was a Salvadoran gang member who was convicted in a stabbing that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed. Agents caught him working at Budget Rental Car at Boston's Logan Airport.\n\nThat's where the terrorists of 9/11 got on the planes.
286067
It is a very touchy subject because yes they shouldn't be allowed to come over and be over here illegally, but at the same time them being illegal doesn't mean that they should be allowed to be taken advantage of and exploited by greedy business owners.  And for the "the U.S. used to be Mexico" argument, that is lame because almost every piece of land was at one time owned by different peoples, we took it just as people have been taking land since the beginning of time.