[RP TownTalk] We the People

[bruce.wernek at mindspring.com]

What's your point Lou?  Are you saying these Cubans immigrated here illegally?  If it was in the 60s I seriously doubt it.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Lou King <lking at knob.com>
>Sent: Apr 27, 2010 12:57 PM
>To: TownTalk at riverdale-park.org
>Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] We the People
>
>bruce.wernek at mindspring.com wrote, On 4/27/2010 10:35 AM:
>> In an effort to put Sue's comments into perspective here's the other side of the story.
>>
>> Recall the Mariel boatlift when the Cubans came to Miami in 1980 during the Jimmy Carter administration.
> > Cuba emptied their prisons.  The US looked the other way with 
>immigration laws.  Now we are experiencing
>
>another large influx of immigrants from/through Mexico.
>>
>>
>Yes lets keep things in perspective. In the '60s Dr Padron came from 
>Cuba and tough me organic chemistry. When I had the opportunity to 
>return to college, after our government gave me some time away from 
>academia to travel in Southeast Asia, Padron was the head of the 
>Chemistry Department. Dr. Hernandez, who was recently from Cuba, was 
>teaching advanced classes in the Math Department.
>
> From the tone in general I take it some no longer agree with the French 
>gift which includes:
>
>"Give me your tired, your poor,
>Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
>The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
>Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
>I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
>
>Lou King
>
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