Reply #13: Those "bennies" aren't available to any other people, as you point out, not even to

[Judi Lynn]

those who have attempted to get in here because they were in danger of being slaughtered in their own countries, like Haitians, and Guatemalans, etc.

Hell, no! Instead, the Cuban Adjustment Act sets aside a whole smorgasbord of perks, from instant legal status (no border guards chasing anyone around, whacking them, throwing them in jail, deporting them) to an instant work visa, social security, Section 8 U.S. taxpayers-derived housing, food stamps, welfare, medical treatment, financial assistance for education, etc., etc.

And, with all that going on, they game the system forever, like Florida State Senator Rudy Garcia's grandmother, who, when someone took her to the state offices to get her food stamps, didn't like the behavior of the employees, got SIX LEVELS of state employees fired, first the one who helped her, then the one who hired her, and then the one who hired the one who hired her, etc. before she was satisfied, FINALLY!

And, by god, she got her goddamned food stamps, this grandmother of a Florida State Senator, whose family owns a roofing business.

In the meantime, when death squads were roaming all over Haiti, slaughtering leftists (Aristide supporters) with guns and machetes, people tried and tried to run from Haiti in boats, and _Bush had the Navy surround the island and turn them all back, feeding them all right back into that meat grinder. No place for them here. No refuge anywhere. They DIED, of course, for being leftists. This is the way right-wingers want it all to go, whenever possible.

No place for the boat loads of Haitians who have made the OVER 700 MILES trip from their homes to Florida and swim desperately to get ashore, fleeing from certain political death on their island. They all go back when they are spotted. (Don't forget the small girl, Sophonie, who was here at the same time as Elián, whose mother brought her here, got her ashore, found a guardian for her, then died. Florida, and the U.S. government were straining at the bit to get her back to Haiti A.S.A.P., where there was NO ONE who would be there to take her, no one at all. She was completely alone in the world. Only the desperate pleas from the hastily located guardian, and the local Congressman were able to get any hearing whatsoever. I still don't know what heppened to her. Jeez.)

There are some who don't go back coming across from Mexico, like the hundreds and hundreds who die each year in the desert or in the Rio Grande or in the undertow in the canals in California, who are coming across for NO ARRAY OF BENEFITS like instant sanctuary, food stamps, housing, green card, medical treatment, financial assistance for school, welfare, social security, etc., etc.

If you held out THOSE benefits to the others in this hemisphere, we would have one hell of a population problem, wouldn't we?