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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 09:00 AM
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36. Asylum is terribly politicized and unfair
During the Reagan administration, when people from all over were fleeing real dictatorships and getting turned down by U.S. immigration, athletes from countries with Communist governments were getting political asylum. I specifically remember a Chinese tennis player and an East German swimmer. The East German swimmer came right out and admitted in a TV interview that he wasn't involved in politics but had received a cushy scholarship offer from a U.S. university.

And don't get me started on the Cubans. If they can make it to Florida, they have instant refugee status, regardless of their actual circumstances in Cuba. But Haitians, who are trying to leave a place that essentially has no working government and is terrorized by warring gangs and ekes out a lliving in poverty that looks as if it shouldn't be survivable, no such luck.
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