Thousands of Cubans entered the US illegally over the years

[rickford66]

fleeing Communism. Not much different than those from Central and South America. Will Trump be rounding them up for deportation, many of them citizens now ? I believe the Democratics have an argument there to show the hypocrisy of the MAGA's.

[sinkingfeeling]

1. They were allowed to enter and remain in the US via numerous laws like the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act,

[rickford66]

4. Trump is disregarding whatever laws he wants.

I know about the laws allowing Cubans special treatment. Hypocrisy is what I want to point out. The Cubans vote Republican en masse of course so he wont touch them.

[surfered]

2. Agreed. Why was fleeing Castro different than fleeing...

…Assad, Saddam, the Ayatollahs, Orban, Putin, or any other autocrats? The Statue of Liberty doesn’t mention any exceptions, like which country you come from. Unless we are Native American, our forbears we’re all immigrants

[JI7]

3. Don't they have special law for Cubans where anyone who actually gets here

can be here legally ?

And this group is largely right wing. They are the ones actually given special rights.

[Jose Garcia]

6. President Obama ended that policy in 2017:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_feet,_dry_feet_policy

[Unladen Swallow]

5. Cubans are afforded a special exemption

And many of them vote right, when citizenship is granted, believing they are voting against the same communism they fled.