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14 Jul 2021, 12:54 am

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People fleeing Cuba and Haiti by boat will not be allowed to enter the U.S., even if they demonstrate fear of being persecuted or tortured in their home countries, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas warned on Tuesday.

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Mayorkas said those trying to reach the U.S. by sea will be intercepted by the Coast Guard and immediately returned to their home countries. Even if asylum-seekers manage to get interviews with U.S. officials, Mayorkas added, they will not be permitted to set foot on U.S. soil, regardless of the outcome of their screenings.

Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-homeland-security-secretary-cuba-haiti-boats-no-refuge/



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14 Jul 2021, 1:03 am

Uncle Joe wouldn't do that! 8O
It must be Kamala's work. :mrgreen:



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14 Jul 2021, 1:07 am

I'm sure Trudeau will allow them in if they reach Canada by boat.
But probably not otherwise. :?


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14 Jul 2021, 1:31 am

Pepe wrote:
Uncle Joe wouldn't do that! 8O
It must be Kamala's work. :mrgreen:


The article did bring two similar actions to mind:
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.
* The "left" who vocally protested against policies aimed at preventing immigration (particularly "asylum seekers") from entering the USA from a similar area (central America), labeling the policies as being "racist".

It will be interesting (enlightening, even) to see if the "left" are as vocal against this policy as they become when a pary of the "right" takes these types of actions...



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14 Jul 2021, 2:02 am

Brictoria wrote:
The article did bring two similar actions to mind:
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.


The children overboard scandal was demonstrated to be lie perpetrated by the Howard government to bolster his turn back the boats policy.

Peter Dutton pretends to be hard on border control by persecuting people actually fleeing war, famine and torture but gives favours to his rich mates to bypass visa regulations for French Au Pairs to babysit their kids.

Oh and who can forget Dutton accusing a couple of deliberately burning their child to get out of Nauru. Really classy,

Cold heartedness and double standards seems to be what is in common.



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14 Jul 2021, 5:48 am

cyberdad wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
The article did bring two similar actions to mind:
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.


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The children overboard scandal <<snip>>

The subject under discussion was the policies (and people's reaction to them) of stopping boats, or sending those arriving on boats back to where the boat originated (or 3rd party country), not people's assumptions regarding the reason those they are ideologically opposed to may have come to the decision to implement them...

It's a simply topic, please try to keep to it.



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14 Jul 2021, 8:09 am

I wonder why people on the  Reich  Right are complaining about Biden blocking "Asylum Seekers" when just a couple of years ago, the same people were bragging about Trump blocking "Illegal Immigrants".


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14 Jul 2021, 8:41 am

Fnord wrote:
I wonder why people on the  Reich  Right are complaining about Biden blocking "Asylum Seekers" when just a couple of years ago, the same people were bragging about Trump blocking "Illegal Immigrants".


I haven't seen anyone from the "Right" complaining about it...

I'm curious why the "Left" aren't up in arms about it, given their reaction when the "Right" try similar policies, though...



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14 Jul 2021, 8:51 am

Business as usual on the border. Nothing really changes, especially the perception that Dems are actually different.


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14 Jul 2021, 8:57 am

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Business as usual on the border. Nothing really changes, especially the perception that Dems are actually different.
Politics as usual; but ... yeah ...


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14 Jul 2021, 5:04 pm

The Cubans are the wrong type of immigrants for the current regime. These are people fleeing an authoritarian dictatorship.



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14 Jul 2021, 6:35 pm

Brictoria wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
The article did bring two similar actions to mind:
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.


Off Topic
The children overboard scandal <<snip>>

The subject under discussion was the policies (and people's reaction to them) of stopping boats, or sending those arriving on boats back to where the boat originated (or 3rd party country), not people's assumptions regarding the reason those they are ideologically opposed to may have come to the decision to implement them...

It's a simply topic, please try to keep to it.


Curious but you were the first one to say
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.

Perhaps you should take your own advice :lol:



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14 Jul 2021, 6:46 pm

Mr Reynholm wrote:
The Cubans are the wrong type of immigrants for the current regime. These are people fleeing an authoritarian dictatorship.


The Cubans who fled after Castro's coup were a mix of the Spanish ruling class + criminal mafia who worked closely with them. They were the first immigrants who openly declared themselves anti-communist in order to lobby successive US governments to invade Cuba to reinstall they regime.

The same with Vietnamese christian Chinese refugees who came in the 1970s/80s who were from the south of Vietnam and were antiViet Cong.



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14 Jul 2021, 7:08 pm

Brictoria wrote:
Pepe wrote:
Uncle Joe wouldn't do that! 8O
It must be Kamala's work. :mrgreen:


The article did bring two similar actions to mind:
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.
* The "left" who vocally protested against policies aimed at preventing immigration (particularly "asylum seekers") from entering the USA from a similar area (central America), labeling the policies as being "racist".

It will be interesting (enlightening, even) to see if the "left" are as vocal against this policy as they become when a pary of the "right" takes these types of actions...


Well, even the Democrats don't let just anyone/everyone into America.
And why should they?

Some people are simply simple if they can't understand the ramifications of not having any border control.



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14 Jul 2021, 7:13 pm

Brictoria wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Brictoria wrote:
The article did bring two similar actions to mind:
* The "left" who vocally protested a former Australian government of the "right" who performed similar "stop\turn back the boats" actions.


Off Topic
The children overboard scandal <<snip>>

The subject under discussion was the policies (and people's reaction to them) of stopping boats, or sending those arriving on boats back to where the boat originated (or 3rd party country), not people's assumptions regarding the reason those they are ideologically opposed to may have come to the decision to implement them...

It's a simply topic, please try to keep to it.


Some people have a problem staying on topic, unlike me. [irony]

Even Rudd understood the need to curb illegal immigration, but some on the left chose to ignore this.
"Lies through omission", it seems.

God, I hate hyperpartisanship and double standards. :eew:



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14 Jul 2021, 7:17 pm

Fnord wrote:
I wonder why people on the[/color]  Reich  [color=black]Right are complaining about Biden blocking "Asylum Seekers" when just a couple of years ago, the same people were bragging about Trump blocking "Illegal Immigrants".


Please point out where any reich-winger has complained.
I only see people pointing out the hypocrisy/double standards. :scratch: