Coast Guard: Child Dies When Smugglers' Boat Capsizes (Cuban smugglers)

Coast Guard: Child Dies When Smugglers' Boat Capsizes
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MIAMI -- The Coast Guard says a 6-year-old Cuban boy died early Thursday morning after the high speed boat he was being allegedly smuggled in capsized, trapping him underneath.

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The cutter pursued the suspect vessel, visually spotting it at 1:01 a.m. The suspected smuggler refused orders to stop, and maneuvered the boat erratically in attempt to flee, according to the Coast Guard.


At about 1:20 a.m., when the Coast Guard located the boat, it was found capsized, and 30 people were found clinging to the hull.
Once all 30 people were out of the water, crewmembers were told that a 6-year-old boy was missing.


The 30 survivors were being held aboard the Dauntless until a decision is made whether to return them to Cuba. Under the U "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy, immigrants intercepted at sea are usually returned to Cuba.

In the past, the U.S. government has prosecuted smugglers for the deaths of Cubans at sea.

I saw the USCG video on the local news.

No life vests, not even for the small children.

All aboard rushed to one side when a USCG Zodiac pulled up and the go-fast smuggler's boat capsized.


Going rate per Cuban smuggled in = $5,000


30 x $5000 = $150,000




Background info re Cuban illegal immigration..



The USA currently offers over 20,000 LEGAL immigration visas per year to Cubans (and Bush has announced that the number would increase despite the fact that not all 20,000 were applied for in the last few years). This number is more than any other single country in the world. The US interests section in Cuba does the required criminal background check on the applicants.

The US's 'wet foot/ dry foot' policy (that applies to Cubans only) permits all Cubans, including Cuban criminals and felons, who arrive on US shores by illegal means to remain in the US despite having failed to qualify (or even apply) for a legal US immigration application.

Cubans who leave for the US without a US visa are returned to Cuba (if caught at sea - mainly in smuggler's go-fast boats @ $5,000 per head) by a US/Cuban repatriation agreement. But IF they make it to US soil, no matter who they are or what their criminal backround might be, they get to stay in the US and enjoy perks offered ONLY TO CUBAN IMMIGRANTS (via the US's Cuban Adjustment Act and a variety of other 'Cubans only' perks). Perks like instant work visa, instant green card, instant access to sec 8 taxpayer assisted housing, instant social security, instant welfare, free health care, and more.

These perks are not offered to any other immigrant group, but yet, without the perks offered to Cubans, immigrants still pour into the US from all over the Caribbean and the Latin Americas - many taking greater risks than Cubans to get here.


Get it? There is no such thing as a Cuban illegal immigrant in the USA. Plus, they get perks that no other group is offered.

Daily people from all over the world risk their lives to come here for economic reasons.

Difference is - when Mexicans drown in the Rio Grande or die in the desert, Cubans in Miami don't give a damn!!!