Cubans deported from bridge reach U.S. on 2nd try (CNN News)

[Yrys]

So, the U.S. government talk to the Cuban one (how),
and Cuba says : ''That person has a criminal record''
and the US believe them...

And here I was thinking that these countries aren't on
speaking terms !

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/15/cubans.ap/index.html

MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- A group of Cubans deported in January after nearly reaching
the United States landed Friday at close to the same spot, a bridge in the Florida Keys
that authorities earlier ruled wasn't American soil, a relative said.
...
The U.S. deported the 15 who arrived in January because the Old Seven Mile Bridge is
missing several chunks and the section where they landed no longer touches land. Their
relatives sued, and U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno ruled they should have been
allowed to stay. Federal officials agreed to give 14 of the migrants visas; the 15th was
repatriated because he may have had a criminal record, Reuters reported.

 

[sigpig]

Just what we need down here, more Cubans for the news people to get all giddy about. I hate the wet foot/dry foot policy and the pandering that goes on to the Cubans here. Haitians and everyone else get the boot and of course everyone is up in arms about illegal immigrants, but if it's a Cuban, come on down.

The Coast Guard is making plans for what to do if Castro dies and there is a mass exodus like Mariel. And there is a US govt office making plans for the transition when Castro dies. I thought if the leader of an independent country died the govt/people of that country would decide what happens to it next?

Sometimes I wonder if the Cubans in Miami really want Castro to die because who would they have to hate then? And they'd lose their privileged martyr status and what would they do with their lives?