Call me crazy, but maybe it's because after they're here for a year, some of them go back to visit. It kind of blows the whole concept of being a political refugee right out of the water.

Gusano,

You win a plush cupie doll!

31 Cuban tourists arrive near Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant:

A total of 31 jubilant Cuban tourists landed seven miles south of the power plant. The over two-dozen sun merchants arrived with bright smiles on their faces, ready for a full day of shopping and clubbing in Miami's famed South Beach district.

It's because our owners choose their words very carefully to have the most efficient path to manipulating our perceptions cousin. They use the same jargon across the board too like all of the pundits, politicos and weapons of mass obstruction - the big media - all using the phrase "as we move forward." Listen for it until I tell you what the next talking point is. If you know what you are looking for it becomes obvious manipulation is going on. The fake left right thing is just a ploy to keep us fighting the wrong battles against each other rather than with our true enemies.

Remember just one example of this truth. The left media only half a year ago was asserting that high gas prices were due to producers not being taxed enough and our lack of usage of alternative fuels. The right media was claiming that we need to drill in the ocean and build more refineries. They both lied and that is obvious now with gas down more than half with neither of those talking points spewed by the big media having come to pass. Neither spoke the truth that we've had a sudden reduction of the money supply preceded by an astronomical increase in the money supply.

Even today these media carpetbaggers refuse to admit the truth about the economy as they tarp away. Don't let them manipulate you primo. Once you know yourself and know your enemy you need not fear one hundred battles. If you don't know who your real enemies are than you are doomed.

Val, sorry to say I also agree with gusano. I guarantee you that the vast majority of these people will be visiting Cuba in one year. Not only that, they will start complaining about access to medical care and insurance here and implying that it was better in Cuba. I have gotten so sick of hearing this kind of crap from recent "arrivals" that I now just walk away from them when they start that crap. I wish it weren't so.

Exile: 1 a: the state or a period of forced absence from one's country or home b: the state or a period of voluntary absence from one's country or home.

Migrant: one that migrates a: a person who moves regularly in order to find work

1. The Turkey Pointers were not forced out. 2. they came here for work 3.They will be returning home as soon as their paperwork is processed.

This is what I don't get - 99.9% of you want to cut off all money going to Cuba from Miami, you also want to beef up the embargo and yet you bitch and whine about wet foot/dry foot when the people you are embracing to a man disagree with everything you believe. Don't you realize if we get rid of the Cuban Adjustment Act that anyone coming over here for political reasons can file for political asylum? The CAA was passed for people escaping communist tyranny the people coming over now are escaping a communist economy. SEND THEM BACK!

Isn't a "communist economy" the result of a "communist tyranny"? How do you separate the two? It's normal for people to want to advance in the world, and it's normal for people to want to keep in touch with family members and help them.

The complicit communist alleged 'mainstream' media uses the term 'migrants' to discredit Cuban Exiles. Regardless of whether or not Exiles return to Cuba, the press is simply doing what the gang who ruled the 90s told them to do. Wasn't it well known that the first 'assignment' given to the boy president by his string pullers was to 'marginalize and discredit Miami's Cuban Exile Community'?

For what reason? Some say it was 'because Exiles always vote Republican.' Perhaps? Perhaps not.

Might this be the real reason? Cubans, similar to physicians expert in diagnosing elusive illnesses, know communism. Having endured both its chronic misery and the endless blattings of its propaganda pimps, Cuban Exiles readily spot this insidious, inevitably fatal societal disease.

Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasota Key, Florida
30 January, 2009

Mariana - yes and no. When I speak of communist tyranny I speak of political persectution when I speak of communist economy I am speaking of a dysfunctional economic model. As to your point about people wanting to advance in the world I agree but the situation is that the CAA was designed to help political refugees not economic immigrants. That is why only Cubans have rules just for them when it comes to immigration. I do believe in more open borders but more importantly I believed all immigrants should be treated the same - Cuban economic immigrants are no different than those from Haiti, Mexico, Guatemala or anywhere else.

I also don't have an issue with keeping contact with family but again the CAA was supposed to help political refugees - obviously these people are not political refugees because they are not frightened to return to visit - we just need to change the rules to reflect our current reality.

As for PVZ's issue on "exiles" it once again confuses the issue. We do not refer to Mexicans, Koreans or Colombians as exiles. They are immigrants - they chose to come here to make a better life. Many return home to visit and may even harbor hopes of returning for good someday. There is nothing that distinguishes them from the overwhelming majority of Cubans that arrive now. There exceptions of course, dissidents who find their lives so impossible on the island that they relocate. Would you label someone like Gonzalo Rubalcaba an exile?