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Topic: Long lines as Cubans seek passports
on first day of new migration policy |
Long lines as Cubans seek passports
on first day of new migration policy
Miami Herald, by Juan O. Tamayo
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Posted By:tisHimself, 1/15/2013 5:30:54 AM
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| Cubans lined up at passport agencies, photocopying machines and some embassies Monday on the first day of a migration reform that promises to allow them to make more personal trips abroad after almost exactly 54 years of bitterly hated restrictions. In a hint of the possibly profound impact of the changes, Havana blogger Yoani Sanchez and dissident Guillermo Fariñas, who together have been denied permission to travel abroad more than 24 times, said authorities told them they will be allowed to leave and return.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
fireman28, 1/15/2013 6:13:48 AM (No. 9117080)
Good luck on that "and return" part.
I assume the law which allows them asylum if the make it "to shore" is still in effect.
Look out Florida, second wave of Cubans coming.
No jobs, more welfare, more crime, more Democraps.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/15/2013 6:52:18 AM (No. 9117115)
With the American communist party taking over this country,it´s no surprise we´re cozying up communist Cuba,which the left worships.I guess I don´t have a big problem with long lost relatives seeing their folks,what I worry about is a nose under the tent for more dem voters.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Bevan, 1/15/2013 8:53:40 AM (No. 9117313)
I wonder if Elian Gonzalez is getting a passport.
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