Example of the hypocrisy of the US immigration law!
Greetings, Max. It is good to see you.
It seems you are misrepresenting The Cuban Adjustment Act (Public Law 89-732) dated November 2, 1966 for reasons known only to you. Having actually read the law you already know most of your post is untrue. The law does not provide any special benefits for Cubans except for modifying the time-based elements connected with eligibility and processing as stipulated by other immigration laws. {1}
Every sentence in your post contains a distortion of fact:
No. 1: For starters, the law only applies to legal, not illegal, immigrants from Cuba, specifically, “a native or citizen of Cuba …who has been inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States” and who also "has been physically present in the United States for at least one year.” A 1995 US-Cuba agreement known as the Cuba-U.S. Migration Accord was written into this law as an amendment. Under the accords, Cuban refugees who reached the US mainland would not be return to Cuba but they would have to be officially admitted into the US to be eligible under this law. {2}
No. 2: The words “peacefully or violently” are blatantly untrue since they are neither stated nor implied in this law.
No. 3: A qualifying native or citizen of Cuba does not automatically receive permanent residency status after one year. Under this law, a refugee must make “an application for such adjustment,” and must be “eligible to receive an immigrant visa,” and must also qualify to be “admissible to the United States for permanent residence.”
No. 4: The law does not provide a variety of social benefits as you claim it does. Any benefits that might result from a change of status are the same as would be available to any immigrant granted permanent residence status.
No. 5: You have no way of knowing the real objective of this law. It does not encourage a “brain drain” but it does provide a fast-track for processing and approving applications for permanent residency status “by the Attorney General, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe.”
No. 6: Example of the hypocrisy of the US immigration law? Your post neither explains nor justifies such a claim. All governments without exception pursue policies in their own interest. Duh?
I hope you will restate your post with more truth and less innuendo so we can all have a meaningful discussion.
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http://www.state.gov/www/regions/wha/cu … ccord.htmlHi Max. Many thanks for your candid reply.
You wasted our time with garbage. You opened this thread charging the US government with hypocrisy. You made false claims without using quotation marks, without citing a source, and without fact-checking your statements to be sure that they are true. You now own these lies, Max, they are your lies.
I find it interesting that you are precise about the date the law was enacted but you can not remember the source. You include the exact date of effective eligibility written into the law but you can not find the source. You accuse the government of hypocrisy and you did not even read the law yourself. You expect your readers to believe that, as a matter of honor, “I don’t open my mouth if it is not factual” and you admit ALL of the claims in your OP statement are not factual! I expect a person who says telling the truth is a matter of honor would at least fact-check his own comments.
I am sorry, Max. Please tell us again who is the hypocrite in this thread.
- Sarra Garrettposted 10 years ago
0Howdy Sarra. I hope things are a little better for you. I was happy to read you moved to a new place.
Sarra, you said President Obama “gives them [undocumented students] free college educations and free resources that Americans can't get.” Please share some specifics with us because honestly I can not find any such programs.
I have been following the immigration situation in this country for a few years. It led me to write Illegal Immigration and the Economy about a year ago. Therefore, I was surprised to read your claim that the current administration is providing “free” college educations and other “free” resources that are not available to citizens. It prodded me to do a little more research. However, I find nothing to support your assertions.
There are a few privately funded tuition assistance programs, at least one case of a scholarship with other assistance offered by a religious order, a year old state program in California, and an initiative by a state funded college in Denver, Colorado likely to face a legal challenge. Firstly, none of these are opportunities for a “free college education” provided by the Obama administration and, secondly, since all are matched by similar programs for citizens, none qualify, as you say, as “free resources that Americans can't get.”
In Massachusetts, for example, Hampshire College Alumni and other supporters have donated nearly $300,000 thus far to a fund for illegal immigrants. This private school reports that the fund will help at least one student per year. {1}
A “need-based scholarship for undocumented immigrants in California, sponsored by Santa Clara University’s Jesuit Community, helps provide full tuition, as well as room and board, for approximately four incoming freshmen and one transfer student (or current Santa Clara upperclassman) yearly.” {2}
I did not find any federal government programs that offer free college education, Sarra. One public institution in Colorado offers a reduced tuition in between the regular state resident and the out-of-state student rates. More than 100 undocumented students are paying tuition under this policy. Metropolitan State University of Denver, maybe in defiance of State law, provides this discounted fee only to a student who attended high school in Colorado for at least three years, received a high school or general equivalency diploma in the state, and still resides in Colorado. {3}
Under 2011 legislation passed in California, undocumented immigrant students pay resident tuition rates if they were graduated from a California high school and can prove they are on the path to legalize their immigration status. They can also apply for state aid if they meet the same requirements as all other students after all the other legal residents have applied. {4}
I rely on you, Sarra, to let me know if I missed something. Where will I find information about President Obama's free college education? I find lots of benefits extended to immigrants that are available to citizens as well. I have yet to find an example where non-citizens qualify for a form of assistance that is not also available to Americans. I am looking forward to your input.
I am hoping things continue to improve for you, Sarra.
{1} http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/11539
{2} http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/ … university
{3} http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/us/de … rants.html
{4} http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f95_1318128202
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