No refugees allowed in US
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Where have you gone, AOC? A lonely nation turns its eyes to you.
(probably quiet because there's no parking lot to weep at)
In November of 2020, Joe Biden’s Havana-born nominee for Department of Homeland Security secretary, Ali Mayorkas, promised to “oversee the protection of all Americans and those who flee persecution in search of a better life for themselves and their loved ones.”
Less than a year later, amid a popular uprising in Cuba, Mayorkas made a volte-face, telling those seeking refuge from Haiti and the communist nation, “You will not come to the United States. . . . Again, I repeat, do not risk your life attempting to enter the United States illegally. You will not come to the United States.”
As far as I can tell, there was no performative outrage from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or any of her progressive cohorts over the United States shutting its doors to the downtrodden. There are no overwrought analogies made between U.S. immigration policy and the MS St. Louis by Democrats. There is no grandstanding reading of “The New Colossus” from CNN hosts.
Even as Biden gave his perfunctory statement about the United States standing with the “Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom,” a senior State Department official was framing protests — in which some unfurled American flags and many chanted “We want liberty” — as unhappiness over “rising COVID cases/deaths,” using puerile activist rhetoric about “mobilizing donations to help neighbors in need.” Collectivist-induced shortages are not an outlier. Every neighborhood is in need.
It’s impossible to ignore the fact that Cubans are often treated differently. Perhaps it’s because a sizeable number of them — having first- or secondhand experience with socialism — vote Republican, and progressives are interested only in future Democrat voters.
(such a cynic)
After all, President Barack Obama not only ended the embargo on Cuba; he overturned the “wet foot, dry foot” policy instituted under President Clinton in 1995, which allowed Cubans refugees who reached U.S. soil to stay and become permanent residents.
Even today, former Obama officials such as Ben Rhodes, the same people who chose the mullahs over the Iranian Green Movement, offer ugly moral equivalencies between the totalitarian regime and the “cruel US embargo.”
Of course, fellow travelers have been praising communist Cuba for decades (as Humberto Fontova has exhaustively detailed). “We’re very opposed to the authoritarian nature of Cuba but you know, it’s unfair to simply say everything is bad. When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program. Is that a bad thing?” Bernie Sanders, the most consequential politician in the nation right now, told 60 Minutes only last year. His comment was in response to queries about a lifetime of Castro shilling. “Cuba has solved some very important problems,” Sanders said in the 1980s after visiting the nation. “I did not see a hungry child. I did not see any homeless people. Cuba today not only has free health care but very high-quality health care.”
Weird. All that free health care, and every year thousands are still willing to risk their lives to escape.
Though you’ll probably never hear an official blame “communism” — much less “socialism” — for Cuba’s woes. Biden officials will regularly claim that “climate change” is fueling the refugee crisis on the border. One of the president’s first acts was to incentivize mass migration by overturning the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which compelled those seeking asylum to wait in their home country while their cases were being heard. Yet, if you happen to be a Cuban attempting to flee Castroist thugs on a rickety boat — by any definition, a true asylum seeker — Biden will send you back home.
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BLM
Oh, in the 2nd pic, they praise Assata Shakur
Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947; married name, JoAnne Chesimard) is an American domestic terrorist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA), who was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. Shakur is wanted by the FBI and there is a $2 million reward for her apprehension.[2]
Born in Flushing, Queens, she grew up in New York City and Wilmington, North Carolina. After she ran away from home several times, her aunt, who would later act as one of her lawyers, took her in. She became involved in political activism at Borough of Manhattan Community College and City College of New York. After graduation, she began using the name Assata Shakur, and briefly joined the Black Panther Party. She then joined the BLA, a loosely knit offshoot of the Black Panthers, which engaged in an armed struggle against the US government through tactics such as robbing banks and killing police officers and drug dealers.
While serving a life sentence for murder, Shakur escaped in 1979 from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women, now the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women. She surfaced in Cuba in 1984, where she was granted political asylum. Shakur has lived in Cuba since, despite US government efforts to have her returned. She has been on the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists list since 2013 as Joanne Deborah Chesimard and was the first woman to be added to this list.
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We have the freedom to choose our actions, but we do not get to choose our consequences.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. -
The outraged pop culture coalition of righteous and ignorant douches who think white cops killing innocent black people is one of the most important social issues in America, has almost nothing to do with whatever politics are being spun out from the BLM banner. I don't think anybody knows or cares what the "politics" of BLM are. But I suspect that those wildly off-topic parts of the platform are coming from opportunistic white progressives who attach themselves to the movement. Such people pray for more black people killed by white cops.
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@improviso said in No refugees allowed in US:
BLM supports the Communist Cuban Government.
Radical Liberals support BLM.
Therefore, Radical Liberals support the Cuban Communist Government.
Even Uncle Joe couldn't denounce Communism yesterday.
You get the government that you vote for.
That's President Uncle Joe... Or is it Uncle President Joe?
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The hypocrisy is not lost on me. Trump was overly vilified on border stuff.
Fact is he had a winning political position with that - not because his argument was so good... but the other side was just so bad. The dems painted themselves needlessly into a weird open borders box.
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@xenon said in No refugees allowed in US:
The hypocrisy is not lost on me. Trump was overly vilified on border stuff.
Fact is he had a winning political position with that - not because his argument was so good... but the other side was just so bad. The dems painted themselves needlessly into a weird open borders box.
I wouldn't say it's needless or without value. They can message against "xenophobia" (synonymous with "evil", like racism) much more easily if nothing on their side of the debate can be rhetorically associated with it.
