The policy is: if they reach the shore, they can stay, but if they are
intercepted at sea, thay are returned to CUBA.
Tom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Devin Ranger" <devin_ranger@yahoo.com>
To: "Tom Warner" <twwood@bellsouth.net>; <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Raft update
> I'm not sure that I understand the deterrent argument;
> the USCG removed the people before they destroyed the
> truck. What actually happened to the occupants? Were
> they finally allowed to immigrate?
>
> Thanks for the interesting post, Tom.
>
> Drew
>
> --- Tom Warner <twwood@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Miami -
> > The Coast Guard said it was deterring copycat
> > efforts when it sunk the 1951
> > Chevrolet pickup that was converted into a boat by a
> > group of Cubans, hoping
> > to sail to the United States.
> >
> > Rear Admiral Harvey Johnson, the Coast Guard
> > District Commander told the Miami
> > Herald on Wednesday that it could pickup was
> > salvaged from ocean waters
> > instead of sound. It would've been a monument that
> > encouraged similar efforts
> > by other migrants.
> >
> > The truck was an encouragement for people in Cuba to
> > think they need to make
> > it to the United States. He said. It's very
> > dangerous to come across in a
> > rubber raft.
> >
> > The truck raft carrying 12 Cuban migrants was kept
> > afloat by empty 55 gal.
> > drums attached to the bottom is pontoon and
> > propeller attached to the drive
> > shaft of the vintage pickup was pushing a long and
> > about 8 mph.
> >
> > The group got to within 40 mi. of Florida before
> > being spotted by US Customs
> > officials last month. The Coast Guard return the
> > group to Cuba, and some to
> > trot with machine-gun fire.
> >
> > Joe Garcia Executive Director of the Cuban American
> > National foundation, said
> > the decision to sank the boat was pathetic.
> >
> > What that Chevy would have represented was a
> > struggle for freedom he said, not
> > some kind of incentive for people to leave.
> >
> > Tom Warner
> > 58 Short Fleetside
> > Florida's Treasure Coast
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built
> > between 1941 and 1959
>
>
> =====
> Drew
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>
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