Reply #30: Here's a letter to the editor

[Judi Lynn]

from someone in South Florida. Probably a Cuban-American, he's got some good ideas. Very decent letter:

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Changes in Cuba, U.S. policy


Flood Cuba with U.S. goods By Louie Ortiz Palm Bay

Regarding Cuban-American members of Congress who want the administration to change its policy toward Cuba, I agree the policy should be changed. But not the way they want.

We should lift the embargo and flood the island of Cuba with American products. We should repeal the Cuban Re-Adjustment Act and let the Voice of America replace Radio Marti.

Cuban radio stations and Cuban-controlled TV in Miami reach the island of Cuba. Cubans keep landing in the Florida Keys undetected by two U.S. Coast Guard stations, border patrol boats, U.S. Customs boats and Drug Enforcement Agency patrols.

Yet it seems as if any other groups trying to reach Florida are immediately intercepted and repatriated. Something is wrong.

There isn't any homeland security in the Florida Straits. One of these days a boatload of terrorists, fully versed in Spanish, will land and disappear in Miami. (snip)

(snip) They believe that if there is a Republican administration they should get preferential treatment. (snip/...)

http://www.floridatoday.com/!NEWSROOM/opedstoryA9729A.htm