When Jordanis Perez fled Havana this spring for the United States, he decided his best chances weren't by boat to Florida, but by a route increasingly favored by thousands of Cuban migrants— by land to Texas.

The number of Cubans arriving at the southern border increased this year after President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced plans last December to normalize relations between the longtime adversaries — a move many Cubans fear could mean the end of the special status that allows them to stay and work here legally if they reach U.S. soil.

“It's going to change,” Perez, 31, said of the U.S. law as he sat waiting for help with a dozen other Cuban immigrants at Catholic Charities in Houston on Monday, shivering in donated sweatshirts, unaccustomed to the cold.

At least 44,000 Cubans reached the southern U.S. border during the fiscal year that just ended in September, according to Rep. Henry Cuellar, a South Texas Democrat.



That’s more than double the 17,466 Cubans who arrived at the border the previous fiscal year, most through the Laredo area Cuellar represents, according to the Pew Research Center. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection refused to release current figures.)


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More than 18,000 Cubans crossed into the Laredo area last fiscal year, a 66% increase from the previous fiscal year, according to the Pew analysis of government data. But they are also showing up at crossings in Arizona and California, said Shawn Moran, San Diego-based vice president of the union that represents Border Patrol agents.

Perez headed to Texas after struggling to support his 8-year-old son with a small market. The trip cost him about $4,000 — less than the $7,000 he would have paid for the three-hour boat ride to Florida, but a journey fraught with different risks



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And how do they cross over?  The border the dems say is secure?

It is secure enough for a migrant to announce he is Cuban and the door opens

Why in the fuck do we even have a military?

Dusty Foot

It's time to take down the statue of Liberty and put one up of Clint Eastwood with a sign that reads "Get Off My Lawn!"

Manolo choot dat piece of cheet

You love it

 

filtrators came up illegal from Mexico....Cubans mostly.

Red blooded Americans only care enough to bitch about their country being destroyed by the lack of effective government.  They don't care enough to actually do anything about it.

Write or call your Representative to support HR 3818 which intends to repeal the Cuban Adjustment Act and this madness of the wet foot/dry foot policy.  Everyone screams about wanting to vet Syrian refugees, but we don't have the option of turning away or even deporting the hordes of Cuban criminals that have flooded our borders without screening.  In South Florida, the Cubans have quickly learned how to defraud nearly every government program going, especially Medicare fraud, costing the American taxpayers billions.  If there is a crime to be committed, from drug trafficking, to cargo theft, to lobster poaching you can count on recently arrived Cubans being heavily involved in it.

This failed foreign policy relic from the Cold War has kept the Castros in power an extra thirty years.  The Cuban Government has used the law against us to rid Cuban society of its criminals, the mentally ill, and its malcontents.  Had the hundreds of thousands of Cubans that fled to the US stayed to fight the regime, the Fidel would have been overthrown years ago.

This.

To suppress insurrection. All tin pot dictatorships are like that. Can't project outward much when you have to secure internal dissent.Can help foment revolution abroad but not much else.

We are back to cordial affairs and trading practices. There is no hostility toward Cuba. End the refugee status for Cubans.

They need to drive on over to Miami.   They already own the place, and a couple million more ain't gonna matter.

There are constant eviction fights in condos where I live, there are sometime almost 15 Cubans in a 2 bedroom apartment. They put about 10 beds from one apartment alone out on the street not 2 weeks ago. The condo commandoes monitor the security cameras and then issue eviction notices for fire safety

A couple of Central American countries deny the Cubans passage but I guess where there is a Will there is a way.
If you speak Spanish you can watch Univision.  
Nightly you will see stories such as this.  We are being inundated.  
I love the Cuban people but we have plenty of immigrants
I wish that damn old commie would die already

When he dies the power struggles will begin here in Miami, it's slicing the pie for profit which will make everyone go at each other's throat here in Miami and in Havana, there will be a boatlift bigger than Mariel when the commies lose power