Did you know that people in every single Latin American country are perishing to get into the USA? Did you know that there are millions of Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, Costa Ricans, Chileans, etc...who want to get into the USA just as badly as Cubans do or moreso? If Mexico was across the straits from Florida it would make the Cuban boat people look like a small picnic outing, my friend.

And did you know that every Cuban has free modern medical care and a roof over his head and safe streets and a job and nice clothing and all the basic necessities of life...while the poor in all those other Latin American countries live in poverty and misery beyond imagining (if you haven't seen it)?

I've been to Cuba. I've seen it. I see fewer cops on the street in Cuba than in Canada, and I see safe streets at night in Cuba and lots of lively social life on those streets after dark. In Mexico you can see paramilitary police with machine guns slouching around. They are the next thing to armed brigands, and you can lose your life if you wander around carelessly in Mexico. Mexicans and most other Latin Americans have far more reason to escape to North America than Cubans do, but Mexico is an ally and business partner of the USA, because they play ball with big American companies and enslave their own people to those companies.

Explain that, Fat Albert. You can be willfully blind if you look at a forest and see only the birch trees, because someone told you that there is no other kind of tree than a birch tree. That's what you're doing with regard to Cuban boat people.