I bet you were under the impression that the era of Cuban refugees streaming to the US had pretty much ended. A reader sent this article about a Cuban family being resettled in Texas by the International Rescue Committee and commented about this line in the article:
The family said they sought asylum in the U.S. three years ago for economic reasons.
The legal definition of a refugee is:
REFUGEE – Any person who is outside any country of such person’s nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion.
So, we don’t just take people, even families like this one who sound like nice people, into the refugee program who are economic migrants as they appear to be. They need to be persecuted or fear persecution.
What is the big deal? Well, refugees are entitled to taxpayer subsidized airfare loans, subsidized housing, a case worker provided through the volag and funded by you, food stamps and other forms of welfare. Other immigrants are on their own.
One bit of information I discovered is that the Cubans don’t even have to be outside of the country to seek asylum, we now process them in Cuba. See this information.