U.S.-bound Cubans finally fly out of Costa Rica
Source: Digitial Journal
By Carlos Mario Marquez, with Marco Sibaja in Liberia, Costa Rica (AFP) 3 hours ago in World
A group of 180 Cuban migrants flew out of Costa Rica and arrived in El Salvador in a trial plan designed to blaze a path for thousands of stranded compatriots to follow.If their plane-and-bus trip is successful, other flights will follow as early as next week, transporting more of the 7,600 other Cubans stranded in Costa Rica
The Cubans are ultimately bound for the United States, which has a longstanding policy of accepting them, in what they hope will be the successful conclusion to a months-long odyssey through South and Central America.
If their plane-and-bus trip is successful, other flights will follow as early as next week, transporting more of the 7,600 other Cubans stranded in Costa Rica."I still can't believe it. We could be arriving and I still won't believe it," said Liana Cabezas Gonzalez, a 28-year-old interpreter who left Havana seven months ago aiming to join her parents already in Miami. She and the others paid $555 for the trip to Mexico's border. The governments involved insisted the migrants bear the entire cost of their trip.
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Human101948
(3,457 posts)Why do we have a policy of accepting Cubans and not people from other countries to our south? Just because we have a bug up our collective ass about Castro?
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)I think that's really all it is.
brooklynite
(94,608 posts)newfie11
(8,159 posts)Or must we still take special flights?
Wonder how the numbers in relocations will go. Americans settling in Cuba vs Cubans settling in US?
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The immigration rules have always allowed any from Cuba who 'touch' USA land to stay as a resident visa.
*and other countries.