Cuban Illegals Rescued off Lake Worth (Beach)

Boy spots raft off coast of Lake Worth Beach

Cuban Illegals off our shore!

The Wet foot, Dry Foot policy ended with Bill Clinton that said any Cuban caught on the waters between the two nations (with "wet feet") would summarily be returned to Cuba or sent to a third country, while one who made it to shore ("dry feet") got a chance to remain in the United States. [Wikipedia]

On January 12, 2017, Obama ended that policy. He was the start of the destruction of America.

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Obama up to his last week of tricks

Obama scrapping 'wet foot, dry foot' policy for Cubans"

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Cubans in Custody

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5 Cubans in custody after coming ashore. We need to eliminate the Wet Foot/Dry Foot policy.

Charlie Daniels - Telling it like it is on Illegal Immigration

Charlie Daniels

I don't know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally, made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.

I don't blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the United States of America, as it is a truly wonderful place. But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal, it is flat out wrong, and I don't care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying to give me sensitivity lessons.

I don't need sensitivity lessons; in fact I don't have any-thing against Mexicans! I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal, and if you don't believe it try coming into from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it's tantamount to saying, "I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there's nothing you can do about it."

It's an "in your face" action and speaking just for me, I don't like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas, it wouldn't be happening.

Where are you, you bunch of lily-livered, pantywaist, forked-tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again? And even if you pass a bill on immigration, it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won't mean anything anyway! Besides, what good is another law going to do when you won't enforce the ones on the books now?

And what ever happened to the polls, guys? I thought you folks were the quintessential finger-wetters. Well, you sure ain't paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want something done about this mess, and mess it is, and getting bigger everyday.

This is no longer a problem; it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy. Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can't happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?

If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful, it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit. But I guess that doesn't matter as long as you get re-elected. One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians), you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you.

Well, I've been pounded by the media before, and I'm still rockin' and rollin', and when it comes to speaking the truth, I fear not. And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don't have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.

And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegals in this country and turn around and say, "Oh it's ok, ya'll can stay here if you'll just allow us to slap your wrist."

And I know that some of you who read this column are saying "Well what's wrong with that?" I'll tell you what's wrong with it. These people could be from Mars as far as we know. We don't know who they are, where they are, or what they're up to, and the way the Congress is going, we're not going to.

Does this make sense? Labor force you say? We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well? If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan

All the media shows us are pictures of hard-working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life. They don't show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS-13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did. They don't tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop.

I want to make two predictions:

No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.

No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city, after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced, and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.

I don't know about you, but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, "I don't care who I make mad, and I don't care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I'm going to lead the fight to get it straightened out." I don't blame anybody for wanting to come to, but if you don't respect our immigration laws, why should you respect any others?

And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes. Please get that other one out of my face.

Amendment 4 is the Smart Solution

All of the support of Amendment 4 is from people like you and me...regular people who love our State and deplore what's happened to it. You won't find a developer or people who get their income from real estate or unbridled growth in support of 4. You will find tons of ordinary people throughout the State in support of it however.

Here is just one testament as to why we need amendment 4 from a resident who lives in Homosassa Springs, home to the Homosassa Wildlife State Park:

CITRUS COUNTY ACTIVIST PLUGS AMENDMENT 4
This Letter To the Editor was printed in the Citrus County Chronicle on April 6th, front row center in the Editorial Section.

By Winston Perry
Homosassa Springs

Letter to The Editor:

This letter is in response to the Chamber of Commerce Guest Column by Josh Wooten on March 30th regarding Florida Hometown Democracy Amendment 4, which I would like to share with the citizens of Citrus County.

Let's start with the suggestion that Amendment 4’s passage would stall development.

There is already enough land approved for development in Florida’s local master plans (called comprehensive land use plans) to accommodate 80 to 100 million residents – about five times more people than we have living in the state now.

And even that isn’t enough for some land speculators and politicians. From 2007 to 2009, politicians around Florida voted to change local plans to allow a staggering amount of over development -- 520,000 more houses, 1.2 million more people, and 1.3 BILLION more square feet of commercial and office space. (Figures provided by the Florida Department of Community Affairs.) The Tampa Tribune recently pointed out that the 1.3-billion- square foot figure is equal to roughly 13,000 new Walmarts.

The fact is, developers have plenty of land set aside for building right now and into the future. They aren’t building because they overbuilt in a frenzy and crashed the market, wrecking our home values, increasing taxes to cover the cost of building the infrastructure to support their developments, and putting thousands of people out of work.

Amendment 4's opponents in the sprawl industry falsely state that Amendment 4 would put “all land use changes” to a public vote.

Amendment 4 does not require voter approval of every new hotel and grocery store, but it would require voters to approve changes to the community’s local comprehensive land use plan. For example, voters would be asked to decide if the use of a parcel of land should be changed from farming to housing.

If a developer chooses to build in the many areas already set aside for development in the local comprehensive land use plan, no change – and no vote – is required. When a developer insists on building outside your plan’s development area, your local commissioners will review and vote on that local comprehensive land use plan change just like they do now. Amendment 4 adds one new and important step at the end: You will get the opportunity to veto or approve the commission’s decision on the next regularly scheduled Election Day. It’s that simple. No special elections required.

If your local commission adopts, for instance, three local comprehensive land use plan changes in a year, then you’ll vote on three. If they adopt one, you’ll vote on one. On average, Florida commissions vote to approve three or four local comprehensive land use plan ordinances per year.

Our local comprehensive land use plans weren’t ever supposed to be changed willy-nilly at every speculator and politician’s whim. But that’s what’s been happening -- land use change applications have increased for the last several years because land speculators and politicians anticipate that Amendment 4 will pass in November and then they will be held accountable by local voters.

Under Amendment 4, the only time citizens would vote is when a developer insists on building outside the already-approved areas. And, again, the public will onlyvote after city and county officials have thoroughly reviewed and approved a proposed land use plan change first.

As builder Jeff Auslander pointed out, “Amendment 4 is only going to make it difficult for developers who are trying to promote projects in the wrong place.”

It is disappointing that so much misinformation is going around about this verywise proposal. To say voters are too dumb to understand development proposals is insulting. Look around Florida, and it’s clear we need a change. The wealthy speculators that grow fat from lax rules and permissive politicians are doing everything they can to spread falsehoods about what Amendment 4 would do.

Since the Growth Management Act passed in 1985, a constant blizzard of Land Use Plan changes has assailed one community after another making wise long range planning extremely difficult. Comprehensive land use planning has been gutted. People all over Florida have been protesting unwanted developments, only to find that the deck is stacked against them by the building industry and pro-development politicians.

The net result has been an unending effort to catch up with the needed infrastructure that these plan changes require, with existing residents paying the bills. We are forced into fighting a rear-guard action to protect Florida's wetlands, rivers, water table, agricultural lands, and the natural areas most prized for recreation by both our citizens and our visitors who constitute Florida's #1 economic engine. I can only comment that "Growth for the sake of Growth, is the Ideology of the Cancer Cell".

Amendment 4 does not destroy representative government. The people are governed by their consent, and in this instance we are taking the decisions about land use changes into our own hands by having the final say at the end of the local decision-making process.

On Saturday May 8th, the Citrus County Council, in conjunction with the Chronicle, will be hosting a forum at the Beverly Hills Lions Club. There will be speakers from both sides of the Amendment 4 issue on hand. We encourage you to come out and listen so that you can make an informed decision about this most important Amendment 4.

We believe the voters are smart enough to see through the enormous amount of misinformation that the Florida Chamber of Commerce is spreading throughout the state, and we look forward to a Florida that’s better planned and protected, and more accountable after Election Day 2010.

Vote "YES for 4" on November 2nd! --


Get the facts at www.FloridaHometownDemocracy.com ***


Submitted by: Winston C. Perry, Homosassa resident and Inverness businessman".

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*** Vote Yes on Amendment 4 in November 2010
"The Hometown You Save Will Be Your Own !"
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Haiti and Cuba - like Night and Day

The Post in a recent Editorial speaking about Haiti and Cuba said that "conditions in the two countries are similar.” Other than being in the same hemisphere, they are not similar in any way.

The general “complaint” of the editorial was that we treat illegal Cubans reaching our shores differently than we do Haitians or any other country's populous. That is true. The “wet-foot, dry-foot” rule was devised so that Cubans fleeing from Castro’s Cuba (that the U.S. considered a prison island), would have a chance of reaching freedom in the United States while at the same time deterring a mass exodus. It was a name later given to a policy that originated in 1966 when we were all paranoid about Communists. Since 1994, we annually grant 20,000 Visas to Cubans and many more Cubans want to come to our shores. It is estimated that 16,000 over and above the Visas arrive here inspite of our heavy patrol of the seas. This wet foot-dry foot policy should be revisited.

Haiti has been literally plagued with violence, corruption and dictatorships. The U.S. even managed to get Aristide elected to office just for him to turn out as corrupt as those who came before him. Haiti is highly illiterate and one of the poorest countries in the world. The people are denied basic rights of health and education. The U.S. has been involved with Haiti off and on for a very long time. There is corruption everywhere in Haiti and the capital, Port au Prince, has been paralyzed by kidnappings and people assassinated on the streets in broad daylight. The police are reported to be part of the lawlessness. This is part of daily life there even before the earthquake.

In Cuba, the illiteracy rate is one of the lowest in the world. It has one of the highest qualities of medical care for its people. Its education system is one of the best. It is democratic ever since it overthrew its last dictator, Batista , who was in the hip pocket of the United States, 50 years ago. Cuba’s standard of living is one of the highest in all of Latin America. Cuba has a communist form of government. No other party is allowed to exist. Elections are held. There is no capitalism. Law and order prevail.

The GNP of Cuba is $11 billion and ranked 98th with a population of about 11.5 million. Haiti, with a population of 10 million is ranked 139th, with a GNP at $3.88 billion. The Gross National Product (GNP) is the value of all the goods and services produced in an economy, plus the value of the goods and services imported, less the goods and services exported. If you recall, the United States imposed a total embargo against Cuba in 1962 because of “human rights” issues and they were still ticked off at Castro.

Cuba fought a battle to get rid of corruption and to get rid of a dictatorship and imperialism highly supported by the United States. It won. Haiti, with U.S. intervention off and on throughout the last two centuries, is as corrupt as they come. There is NO comparison of the two countries.

The only difference today between the two is that America still imposes its influence on Haiti. According to former ambassador Brian Dean Curran, the US policy helped to destabalize Haiti in the years leading up to 2004 when Aristide was forced out by armed rebels.

The only similarity between Haiti and Cuba is 90 miles of water that separate them. Other than that, it is like night and day.

Tonight under New Business G, Commissioner Jennings is bringing forth a resolution supporting temporary protection status for Haitians.