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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPity The Poor Immigrant: How Jeb Bush Prevented Deportation Of An Illegal Alien (And Terrorist)
http://www.nationalmemo.com/pity-the-poor-immigrant-how-jeb-bush-prevented-deportation-of-an-illegal-alien-and-terrorist/Pity The Poor Immigrant: How Jeb Bush Prevented Deportation Of An Illegal Alien (And Terrorist)
March 6th, 2013 11:08 pm Joe Conason
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Unsurprisingly, Bushs opinions on immigration are confused and confusing, not to mention ill-informed, which probably makes him a perfect leader for his party. He favored a path to citizenship for the undocumented when most Republicans opposed it; then his book warned that such a provision would encourage a renewed wave of illegal immigration; and now, as Republicans complain that he is out of step with their effort to court Latino voters, he is squirming away from his own books argument.
But no matter which direction Bush ultimately takes in the immigration debate, he can cite at least one Latino immigrant whose deportation he strived successfully to prevent, almost a quarter-century ago, when his father was president. The only drawback to this heartwarming humanitarian story is that the man whose cause Bush advocated was a bloodthirsty terrorist who was almost certainly responsible for the brutal murder of scores of innocent victims.
In 1989, the Justice Department was seeking to deport one Orlando Bosch, a Cuban exile and anti-Castro militant who was then imprisoned for entering the United States illegally. Leaders of the Cuban-American community were agitating for Boschs release, although US law enforcement and intelligence authorities held Bosch culpable in many acts of brazen terror. Along with his suspected (and sometimes confessed) responsibility for various bombings and attacks on civilian and diplomatic targets, Bosch was believed to have overseen the sabotage of a Cuban airliner. The resulting explosion killed all 76 civilians aboard, including all the young members of Cubas Olympic fencing team, several passengers from other countries, and a pregnant mother. Corrupt Venezuelan prosecutors had failed to convict Bosch of this crime, but he publicly sought to justify the airliner bombing, almost to boast of it, when he wasnt proffering unpersuasive denials. (He was also strongly suspected of running the conspiracy that blew up a car in Washington, D.C. in 1976 an incident that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his assistant, American citizen Ronni Moffitt, in perhaps the most infamous assassination carried out by foreigners on American soil.)
Miamis Cuban leaders considered Bosch their greatest hero and turned to Jeb Bush, then a budding businessman seeking real estate deals in South Florida, to prevent his deportation.
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Eight years later, with the help of the same wealthy Cuban-Americans who had implored him to help Bosch, Jeb Bush had become a wealthy man and newly elected governor of Florida.
Now Bush has adopted a hard line against those who have disobeyed Americas immigration statutes. But his outrage over the flouting of those laws seems extremely selective: For the ordinary worker with impoverished family, no mercy; for the demented terrorist with powerful friends, no effort spared.
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Pity The Poor Immigrant: How Jeb Bush Prevented Deportation Of An Illegal Alien (And Terrorist) (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2013
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The Magistrate
(95,252 posts)1. No Question About This, Ma'am: Bosch Is A Murdering Terrorist
Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)2. Let's not forget Bosch's partner in crime Senor Posada.
This man still lives in Miami. One wonders how the US would respond if Cuba sent a drone over and blew Mr. Posada to bits.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)3. Figures!