Reply #59: You are totally wrong. If you cannot take a job "THAT IS OFFERED TO YOU"

[MADem]

then you must be in prison. Or an iron lung.

And you emigrate FROM, and immigrate TO. That's pretty basic as well. I think the one who doesn't "get" it is you. When you start snarking at people for not having one of those clues, it really does help if you have one yourself.

And you say you "used to be" a lawyer?

You're inventing scenarios where people "might" be denied a visa, and trying to pretend it is the norm, when it isn't.

You're afraid to face the fact that Cubans Cannot LEAVE.

One more time--it does not matter how many people "do" leave their country. That's NOT the issue. And we're not discussing how long people are allowed to stay. We're talking about Cubans who cannot leave their island prison.

We're talking about (and you keep trying to change the subject about) people being trapped, being held prisoner by a dictatorial regime, and not being allowed to leave to go ANYWHERE--not just USA, but UK, Bahrain, Kenya, Japan, Italy....ANYWHERE.

The point again, is that most people, even if they don't actually leave their home, have the CHOICE. They have the choice to visit, to go on holiday, to take a summer job as a waiter in Hyannis or Tokyo, or a nanny in Beirut or Boston--if it is OFFERED to them, to leave their country to accept a scholarship to a university, or simply to fly to a city and see a frigging Madonna concert, if that's what they want to do.

Cubans do not have the CHOICE. You keep trying to push that to the side, when it's the Main Point.

They don't have that "freedumb" of which you speak and snark.

One more time:

Cubans.

Can't.

Leave.