Cuban migrants arrive on Brac ahead of storm
(CNS): A dozen Cuban migrants were transferred to Grand Cayman on Tuesday after the eleven men and one woman arrived on Cayman Brac Tuesday morning. The group were flown on a Cayman Airways Saab at around 11:15am ahead of the impending storm, Customs and Border Control officials said in a release Tuesday evening.
The group arrived on the Brac around 4:45am Tuesday morning in a make-shift boat. This is the second group in less than a week to arrive in the Cayman Islands after four migrants came ashore last Thursday. Given the current situation in Cuba the government is expecting to see more migrants and recently held a Multi-Agency Mass Migration Committee meeting to discuss the issue and prepare for the potential increase.
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Welcome to the land of plenty ! For everyone else besides the minority and indigenous population! Welcome !
i heard that cubans migrants who arrive on the brac…cry and beg to be returned to cuba asap.
Can you imagine how desperate you would have to feel to set out in a shitty craft with a hurricane coming at you? It is inconceivable to me. Thus, I wish I could contribute to their welfare with necessary goods and supplies. I don’t see the harm. Once they set foot on land they are arrested. What if a restocking could get them on their way? Wouldn’t that be a good thing. Surely their plan wasn’t to come to the Sister Islands to get arrested to sit in confined quarters until they could be repatriated? Would you ever choose such a plan? Okay, so let’s get them on their way, let them take their chances with God and nature.
I would want that choice for myself and my family.
Huh?? They never knew and Hurricane was coming. Desperate yes.
Send them all back!!
It’s almost like we are keeping them here so that some elected official who owns a security company has a really good contract watching them.
Yes, of course, send them back. Do you have any idea how much it costs us to repatriate them vs. moving them along their way.? Do you? No, of course you don’t, because you have an anti-Cuban bent. Talk to you friendly CBC officer. Maybe they will trust you enough to tell you the truth. I kinda doubt it though.
Move them along in what? Their boats aren’t sea worthy enough to make it to their desired destination. So send them along to their deaths??
It is a lot cheaper to put them on a flight and send them back VS feeding them and providing security to watch over them indefinitely.
Some people really don’t think.
It is NOT cheaper, Skippy. Not by a LONG shot. You could argue that it was more humanitarian to not allow them to continue on their quest in their shitty craft, but do NOT fool yourself or others into thinking that it’s cheaper.
I think if they choose to continue, we should outfit them and allow them to go. I would want that same grace.
The reason we have to “watch over them indefinitely” is that CIG has to negotiate terms with Cuban government for every. single. group. We can’t just shove them onto an airplane, land it, and kick them off. The real world doesn’t work that way.
Some people really don’t think. Or research.
UN General Assembly condemns the US economic embargo of Cuba for a 32nd year. The vote in the 193-member world body was 187-2, with only the United States and Israel against the resolution, and one abstention. It tied the record for support for the Caribbean nation first reached in 2019 and again last year.
A person who has no compassion for the misfortune of others is heartless. Shame on you.