Almost 50 years after Cuba’s socialist revolution, it is untenable for America to maintain an (affirmative action) immigration policy that gives Cubans EZ passes into this country (just to spite Fidel Castro); whilst erecting ever increasing barriers for all other immigrants from the Caribbean (even summarily repatriation many of them – as is invariably the case with Haitians). Yet, despite this arbitrary policy, when compared with other countries around the world, America has by far the most inviting and humane immigration policy of them all.
Indeed, this fact is finally coming into stark relief for Europeans who once chided America with righteous indignation for its treatment of Mexican immigrants. Because they are now finding that as many Africans are seeking illegal entry into E.U. – with equal determination – as the Mexicans who have been crossing the U.S. border illegally for decades.
And, I have no doubt that if the American government treated Mexicans or other immigrants the way the “socialist” Spanish government is treating Africans, Europeans would have already raised holy-hell in condemning it as a violation of international human rights.
So, where’s the international outrage against the way the Spanish are herding (and abusing) Africans in border detention centres before expelling them back to where they came from?!
Click here and here for a little insight into how those erstwhile universal humanists in Spain are greeting their African brothers who are merely trying to escape the chronic pestilences of disease, famine and war.
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Anonymous says
Thanks for showing that with all of our faults we Americans are still the greatest force for good in this world. The Europeans could always accuse us of racism because they had only a few blacks in their lily white countries. Just wait until blacks, or worse muslims, make up 13% of their countries and we’ll really see who the racists are.
Anonymous says
Let’s face it, Europeans prefer to think of Africans as people to moralize about – as long as they are starving down in Africa. But having too many of them as neighbours brings out the racist in white Europeans just as does in white Americans.