Sad result of Wet Foot/Dry Foot that allows Cuban felons to enter and get a clean slate.

[Billy Burnett]

Note the deflection of the topic of US policy in the story that allowed this cretin to enter the US illegally (via smugglers operation - paid for by his famous half brother), despite the fact that he was denied a legal US visa because of his violent criminal record in Cuba.

Current US policy allows illegal entrants like this criminal to be set free on the streets of Miami within 24 hours of his illegal entry- a fresh new clean slate despite his violent criminal history - plus he gets all of the benefits offered to Cubans immigrants only, at US taxpayer expense.

He even qualified for a Florida concealed weapons permit - despite violent felonies in his past.

Now this man's latest victims and US taxpayers will continue to foot the costs of insane policies like the US's Wet Foot/Dry Foot and Cuban Adjustment Act policies.

Shooter had violent past
http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/22001395301054/

HIALEAH, Fla. (WSVN) -- The troubled past of a gunman who set out to kill women inside a South Florida restaurant is coming to light.

Family members of Gerardo Regalado's late wife painted a disturbing picture of him. They said he abused and terrorized women for years. The 38-year-old gunned down his wife, Liazan Molina, on Sunday at Yoyito restaurant, where she worked. Her relatives in Cuba said they feared this would happen.

Before the rampage, Regalado had a clean record in the United States. However, back in Cuba, Regalado spent hard time in prison. Nelson Molina Martinez said Regalado stuck a woman in a pig pen; another one he burned her chest with an iron. "We all knew it, but his wife constantly defended him," he said during a phone conversation, in translation.

Molina's uncle went on to say that Regalado beat her repeatedly and forced her to eat paper once. He called Regalado "an animal."

Relatives said he was smuggled into the U.S. but his Cuban criminal record kept his half brother, former Yankees pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez from legally claiming him.

Yet, Regalado was a resident and did have a concealed weapons permit. He bought a gun and police said, he used it to commit mass murders Sunday night.

A vigil was held for the seven women he took aim at before turning the gun on himself. Raul Rubio's mother, Mayra de le Caridad, is among the victims. Surveillance video showed her cleaning up before the gunfire. A bullet pierced her lung and now she's struggling with her memory. "When she falls asleep, she gets a flashback and says something about the kitchen." said Rubio. "

Funeral services have been held for three of the four women, including Maysel Figueroa. Her relatives want her body sent back to Cuba. Her ex-husband in Cuba is asking for his 5-year-old son to return too.

The only one who hasn't been mourned publicly is the shooter's wife, Molina. Her relatives have requested that her remains be sent back to Cuba.

One restaurant worker said all the women were hard workers who came to this country for their freedom.

The horror. :(

on edit: I guess that I should add that it is a minority of Cubans in the US who arrive in the US illegally like the above mentioned cretin. Most Cubans immigrate to the US legally by applying for one of the 20,000+ legal US visas offered by the US to Cubans, and complying/conforming with US rules and regulations regarding their application.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Good grief! I saw the news this had happened a few days ago without any details.

Wondered at the time if the people involved were Cuban, although the sketchy story didn't mention it.

This is a prime example of the horrid reality which has been pointed out here by you and by Mika that the ones who come via smugglers, or on their own steam, like Elian's mother's boyfriend Lazaro Munero, are people who can't get legal clearance from the U.S.'s own Interests Section, which has been given the enormous range of 20,000 people per YEAR from Cuba they can accept, far, FAR beyond the per capital allowance open to any other country.

And this one is related to El Duque, too!

(I just made a search to see if Joe Cubas, that piece of work who got himself banned from baseball by ripping off Cuban ball players after getting them to the U.S. had also been tied to "El Duque," too. Looks as if he was Orlando's agent for a while!
That dirty little pig man who got drummed out of the business for stealing from Cuban players after seducing them to leave Cuba and spiriting them out of there, signing them, and robbing them blind is also the man who got control of that little "female Elian" girl from Cuba, too. Just a side-note.)

It would be so good to be able to know how many U.S. taxpayers' dollars the gummint is dumping into that Cuban Adjustment Act program annually, wouldn't it? What are the chances anyone outside government will ever know, anyway? It essentially gives them what they had in Cuba, as in taxpayer-financed housing, food stamps, free health care, instant work visa, welfare, social security, etc., etc., etc. All that to get them to leave their homes and come here. Needless to say, if they offered the same opportunities to other nationalities, there wouldn't be enough room to turn around here! We wouldn't need a message board because we'd probably all be crammed together so tightly we could just discuss things in person! Pass the salt, would ja?

Thanks for providing the depth behind this sad, horrible story. It most clearly could have been prevented.

[Mika]

2. Media deflection indeed (more like total misrepresentation).

Gotta love this one....

Relatives said he was smuggled into the U.S. but his Cuban criminal record kept his half brother, former Yankees pitcher Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez from legally claiming him.

Huh? Claiming him? :wtf:

More like: El Duque's sponsorship of the bastard was completely moot because the bastard was denied a legal US visa BY THE US INTEREST SECTION in Cuba - so El Duque paid to have him smuggled into the USA because US policies allow bastards like this to stay, start over w/a clean criminal record (in the US), and continue their crime wave here.

El Duquee, having paid for the smuggling-in of this vicious turd, should be held partially responsible for this heinous crime also.

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[flamingdem]

3. When I read that elsewhere I wondered how he got here... yup... nt

[Judi Lynn]

4. Miami massacre: The worst aspect of this horrific killing spree is a lack of public outrage

Miami massacre: The worst aspect of this horrific killing spree is a lack of public outrage

Even as violent crime drops, America appears to be becoming steadily immune to its frequent mass shootings
Paul Harris, New York The Observer,
Sunday 13 June 2010

By any measurements it was a horrific crime. Gerardo Regalado, a 38-year-old Floridian, burst into a restaurant in the Miami suburb of Hialeah, and shot his wife dead. Then, ignoring several male potential targets, he proceeded to pump bullets into six more women. Three of them died. The killer then stalked out of the diner and drove a few blocks before killing himself.

The awful carnage was caught on videotape by a security camera. It is a terrible thing to watch as the women run through the restaurant pursued by the relentless Regalado who does not hesitate to shoot. But there was one thing the massacre did not catch: the public imagination.

The most shocking thing about the Hialeah killings was the collective yawn given to them by the American media. Unlike the British media after the recent massacre in Cumbria, there was no collective national soul-searching. There was no parade of reporters heading to the crime scene from all over the country. It was just another day in America. If newspapers outside Florida carried the story, it was relegated to the inside pages.

It seems that America, so often beset by mass shootings and serial killers, is becoming steadily immune to the violence. Neither the public nor the media is especially interested any more. They appear to be subject to a dreadful phenomenon of one-upmanship where only the most dreadful and awful of crimes will now generate significant media attention. After all, if walking into a restaurant and shooting seven women is not enough to generate national news, what is? What does any self-respecting mass killer have to do these days to get attention?

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/13/miami-killings-public-indifference

[Mika]

5. Keeping the lunacy of US/Cuba relations under cover.

The only reason this man could get into this country is because of US immigration policy set up for Cubans only.

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[Judi Lynn]

6. Isn't it amazing so few U.S. Americans even know there is a special, preferential,

completely beneficial, totally different treatment for Cuban immigrants as political pawns to attract them here, while treating ordinary Latin American and Caribbean illegal immigrants like trash?

Very few outside Miami know Cubans for generations also came and went from the U.S. to visit relatives, etc., also another little fact of life our media refused to divulge to the multitudes.

I thought it typically hilarious, and wierd, hearing Senator David Rivera (is he the one?) sponsored a bill in the Florida Legislature to cut off the food stamps, section 8 taxpayer supported housing for Cubans for 6 months if anyone learned they had made a trip back to Cuba for one reason or another.

Ah, yes, here we go, just found a reference on it:

"According to Coast Guard Key West, from June 1st to September 18, 2005, approximately 750 Cuban 'refugees' have landed in the Keys. The majority of these landings occur on uninhabited rocks such as the Dry Tortugas or the Marquesas Keys."

"In the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, we see American citizens who are desperate to receive food, water, shelter and other basic human needs."In the Florida Keys, in a cruel twist of fate, we see undocumented Cuban nationals who have illegally entered into the U.S., and now will be receiving taxpayer-funded refugee benefits – the same type of benefits that our fellow citizens in New Orleans and Mississippi so desperately need."

"To add insult to injury, late-night-arriving Cuban refugees who can’t be driven to Miami, are put up at the Holiday Inn, at taxpayer expense in the form of a contract with a Miami based church group.

"As the U.S. government struggles to meet the challenge {of hurricane relief}, the residents of the Florida Keys struggle to make sense with the constant surge of Cuban "refugees" and the taxpayer-funded benefits extended to them in the case of "dry feet"."Refugee benefits include immediate placement on Medicaid, housing assistance, lump sum cash assistance, food stamps, Federal grants, Supplemental Social Security (age eligible) and a myriad of other taxpayer funded social services."A list of refugee benefits can be found at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Office of Refugee Resettlement website.

". . . the definition of a Refugee {Section 101(a)(42)(A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act} is 'a person who, owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country.'"

"These Cubans do not meet the above definition.

"The proof of this is the fact that tens of thousands of Cuban nationals living in South Florida, green card holders, routinely apply for and receive a 29-day travel permit from the U.S. State Department which allowed them to travel to Cuba."

"These are the same 'refugees' who were supposedly fleeing for their lives from Cuba. Then they want to travel back and forth but still retain the status and benefits of a 'refugee'." The number of these supposed 'refugees' who would return to and from Cuba got so high, that President Bush had to enact legislation limiting these return trips to once every 3 years."

"Cubans are economically disadvantaged migrants." Cubans are coming to the U.S. because there is no work in Cuba, as in most of Latin America."

"Simply put, legitimate 'refugees' are people who are fleeing from their home countries for fear of death and persecution." Legitimate refugees do not travel back and forth."

The VDARE.com reader also points out that Florida state representative David Rivera (R-Miami) introduced a bill in the legislature in 2004 that "would punish Cuban Refugees who traveled back to Cuba by cutting off access to Medicaid, Food stamps and housing assistance."

More:
http://vdare.com/mann/051010_cuban.htm

[Xipe Totec]

7. Because we would rather grant residence to criminals from enemy states

than willing workers from friendly states (like Mexico).

Makes you wonder why any country would want to hold friendly relations with the US...

[Billy Burnett]

8. In a nutshell, yes.

"Makes you wonder why any country would want to hold friendly relations with the US..."

Indeed.