cubaninsider: Miami's LEGAL Immigrants

TOO MANY for the HARDLINERS??

The above photo is courtesy of Joe Raedle/Getty Images. It fronted and illustrated a major USA Today article this first week in March of 2017. The article was written by Alan Gomez -- the counter-revolutionary Cuban-American based in Miami who is the top anti-Cuban writer for USA Today. Saturday's Gomez article is entitled: "JUDGE BASHES MIAMI-DADE COUNTY DECISION TO HELP ICE AGENTS." The sub-headline is: "County Was First to Alter 'Sanctuary City' Policies Due to Trump's Threats." I truly believe Americans should read this March 4-2017 article BECAUSE such contentious issues as America's 300 Sanctuary Cities might --remember I said MIGHT -- EITHER DESTROY THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY OR FUEL A REAL REVOLUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. If that sounds like hyperbolic bluster, really it's not!! So, read on.

In his March 4-2017 article Alan Gomez made this salient point: "Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez threw the county into the federal immigration debate when he became the first in the nation to give in to Trump's threats against 'Sanctuary Cities.'" Gomez pointed out that there are over 300 sanctuary cities -- from San Francisco and LA to NY City -- who protect illegal aliens from being deported or jailed by the U. S. government. Gomez added, "Trump signed an Executive Order Jan. 25 to withhold federal grants from jurisdictions that don't comply with federal immigration authorities." And Gomez wrote that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez "doesn't want Miami-Dade to lose out on $335 million it receives in federal funding."

The Mayor of Miami-Dade County since 2011 is Carlos Gimenez. He was born in Havana, Cuba 63 years ago. One problem confronting President Trump and America...one that might begin to bubble over...is the fact that, with extremely rare exceptions, only Cuban hardliners can get elected to powerful positions in Miami-Dade, which has essentially been a mammoth and lucrative sanctuary city for Cubans since the Cuban Revolution in January of 1959 overturned the U.S.-backed Batista-Mafia dictatorship. Also, in Miami-Dade it appears that only counter-revolutionary journalists are allowed to report on Cuban issues...at least since 1976 when top Cuban-American newsman Emilio Milian got car-bombed when he criticized Cuban-American involvement in terror acts against innocent Cubans such as with the bombing of the civilian Cuban airliner Cubana Flight 455. Of course, Americans outside of Miami-Dade haven't really had input into such things so most Americans today are totally unfamiliar with Emilio Milian, Cubana Flight 445, etc. and not even interested enough or...as some cases may be...brave enough to Google such true historic tidbits.

Even in Miami-Dade County, polls reveal that most Cuban-Americans support former President Barack Obama's brave and herculean efforts to normalize relations with Cuba; and most Cuban-Americans supported Obama's trip to Cuba and his promise that "Cuba does not need to fear a threat from the United States." But in reality, the hardliners in Miami and in the U. S. Congress still dictate all of America's Cuban policy that the courageous Obama Executive Orders didn't change, or at least...momentarily altered.

Thus, with Cuban hardliners in charge and at the forefront, any Cuban-American -- INCLUDING MAYOR GIMENEZ IN MIAMI -- who deviates from pro-Cuban exile or counter-revolutionary actions are threatened politically or otherwise, as you can see with the anti-Gimenez protests depicted above regarding Miami as a Sanctuary City. Extremely discriminatory U. S. laws that favor Cubans are, not surprisingly, popular.

It seems that only counter-revolutionary Cuban-American hardliners, like Senator Marco Rubio, can get elected to the U. S. Congress from Miami although most Cuban-Americans even in Miami oppose such assaults on the island nation. Rubio and a continuous line of Bush-aligned Cuban-Americans have easily forged in the U. S. Congress an incredible plethora of laws designed to empower and enrich elitist Cuban-Americans while also attacking Cuba with a vast array of counter-revolutionary "legal laws" that currently command a 191-to-0 condemnation in the United Nations. BUT GUESS WHAT? As Cuban-American U. S. Senator Rubio and Cuban-American Miami-Dade Mayor Gimenez are discovering, even the counter-revolutionaries are beginning to find fault with incredibly discriminatory U. S. laws that severely favor Cuban-Americans and severely punish 11 million totally innocent Cubans on the island -- laws such as the embargo in place since 1962 and the anti-democracy Wet Foot-Dry Foot law that prevailed for decades till President Obama ended it, at least temporarily, back on January 12, 2017, just before he left office.

The two 6-year terms for Marco Rubio in the Senate from Miami have involved elections before and after his failed 2016 presidential bid. Rubio's political career is purely based on his Cuban ancestry in Miami and even that was misrepresented when he got to the Senate claiming his parents escaped the Castro tyranny in Cuba when, in fact, they had escaped the Batista tyranny long before Castro's revolution ousted Batista. Then Rubio's obligatory political career benefited from three factors: The richest and most powerful Miami counter-revolutionaries; the Tea Party, and tight alliances with the Bush dynasty. Yet, back in the Senate to keep alive his 2024 presidential aspirations, Rubio -- the furious counter-revolutionary -- wants to end one of the primary pro-Cuban exile and anti-Revolutionary Cuba laws. On January 7, 2016 the best and bravest of the South Florida newspapers -- the Orlando-based Sentinel -- used a video-taped Rubio rant to illustrate an article that said that Rubio was introducing in the Senate a bill "to address unbridled abuses of refugee aid to Cuban migrants." It seems Rubio loves laws such as Wet Foot-Dry Foot that encourages Cubans to defect to Miami where, the moment they touch soil without any vetting they are home-free with instant financial, residence and citizenship privileges totally unavailable to all non-Cubans. Even Fidel Castro took advantage of such laws by famously, such as with the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, sending unwanted Cubans, including criminals, to their quick acceptance in Florida. But Rubio is outraged that Cubans using those Cuban-only laws come to the U. S., get on Social Security and other entitlement payrolls, then go back to Cuba and STILL GET THE MONEY. Over the decades as Americans have allowed a handful of counter-revolutionary Cuban-Americans to dictate America's Cuban policy, some of those laws easily mandated and maintained in the U. S. Congress now even outrage the most vicious counter-revolutionaries -- such as U. S. Senator Marco Rubio and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez.

A mightily targeted and harassed President Donald Trump -- the anti-Cuba successor to the Cuba-friendly President Obama -- hasn't yet lived up to his promise -- made sanctimoniously in Miami -- to erase Obama's positive Cuban overtures. But Trump's first forty-plus days in the White House and at his Mar-a-Largo estate in South Florida have been mired by more urgent topics -- such as his alleged ties to Russia. Beyond Russia, Trump's primary problem in the coming days -- also likely diverting him from Cuban issues -- is the sheer fact that the mainstream media will likely, sometime between now and 2020, succeed in their all-out effort to destroy the Trump presidency. Led by the unabashed efforts of CNN, MSNBC-NBC, Washington Post and NY Times, the U. S. media -- in their primary roles as propaganda machines instead of news operations -- will likely prove powerful enough to dethrone Trump, which in turn will impact little Cuba as well as the rest of the Big world. For over a year those extremely biased media outlets tried 24-hours-a-day to destroy Trump the candidate and now they have wised up and re-doubled their efforts to destroy his presidency, which will likely happen. As for me, I am also anti-Trump but I am fiercely pro-U.S. and pro-democracy and thus I would like to see both Miami and the U.S. media a bit more democratic.

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