America needs people like these
Three Cuban families sail for Florida in a propellor-powered 1959 Buick .
Three Cuban families’ hopes of puttering to South Florida in a green, 1959 propeller-powered Buick were dashed Wednesday when the tail-finned, floating car was sunk, just like their first ingeniously engineered amphibious vessel, a 1951 Chevy truck rigged to a pontoon of 55-gallon drums, an exile source said. The U.S. Coast Guard declined to comment on the fates of the 11 migrants who were intercepted aboard the sealed Buick 10 miles off Marathon on Tuesday. But Cuban exile sources speculated they will likely be repatriated, just as some had been during the Chevy crossing last July.
I thought the same: tenacious, creative, determined, brave.
And they are returning them?
Posted by Camilo on February 9 2004 11:05
Just what I posted, as well, when I saw this story on another blog. And I'm sure many people would agree.
As I recall, back in the darkest days of the Cold War, when people escaped over the Berlin Wall or defected from the USSR, we usually welcomed them and celebrated their defection.
Today, some enterprising mechanics use the limited tools at their disposal to flee a tinpot dictatorship that poses no measurable threat to the US or any other country. They want to reach the same country that thousands of their own countrymen fled to when Castro came to power in the first place. And our government wants to send them back.
It's probably overstating the obvious to say that something is seriously screwed up here.
Posted by Jimcat on February 9 2004 13:25