Immigrants
Immigrants
I am kind of on a non-posting thing right now, but something caught my eye. I linked to a web page about immigrants making cars into boats to reach America and I was reminded of an event I witnessed in Miami about 12 years ago. We were at a club right on the ocean (actually called “Ocean’s 11″, just for fun facts) when two large boats were spotted drifting ashore. As the cops rolled in, the lights showed us the hundred + Haitian immigrants as they jumped ship and tried to escape. Call me naive, but it was heart wrenching to watch those young men and women shivering on the beach in fear. They probably had no inkling of what they were in for. We were ushered back as we were told they could have communicable diseases. It makes me sad to this day to think of the desperation and determination it must have taken to do what they did. They actually reached the shore and were captured, only to be sent back. It seems so sad. As I said, call me naive. Where are the open arms…
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
June 22nd, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Lady “liberty” isn’t too interested in the poor or homeless, etc. anymore. Now we even have groups organized to shoot the ones who try to come anyway.
June 23rd, 2005 at 1:52 pm
The law is for cuba refugees that if they make it to the us they can stay.
Dave
June 23rd, 2005 at 4:37 pm
Who was shooting at people?
Dave is correct, Cubans can stay legally if they make it to shore. I say boat the whole load of Cubans over who want to come here and get it over with. The US could efficiently disperse the immigrants across the country as to not overwhelm any one area economically or culturally.
June 24th, 2005 at 10:16 pm
Cool. Screw the rest of ‘em.
June 25th, 2005 at 12:30 am
The rest of who?
June 25th, 2005 at 8:05 am
No one was shooting, by the way.
The other refugees. The ones I was refering to were from Haiti. No asylum for Haitians?
June 25th, 2005 at 9:13 am
Actually.
June 25th, 2005 at 10:08 am
Oops, I need to read more carefully.
June 25th, 2005 at 11:21 pm
If the shooting reference came from my first comment, I was referring to the racist militia groups gathered together in the southwestern states to supposedly guard the Mexican border; nothing to do with Cuban immigration.