EDF2085-Reflection #18

This article is very important because I have always heard different stories about immigration from Cuba to Florida and how Castro is such a bad person and this article says all the facts. It is well known that almost the whole population of people that live in Miami know all the terrible stories Castro has done to Cubans. I can’t believe Castro would be so rude as to not let everyone who wanted to leave Cuba leave; also not following through his promises for all those people. For example, the “Peter Pan” acts when all the children were able to come to Florida but then Castro decided to stop that. Another example was the Camarioca boat lift, in which he allowed Cubans to come pick up their relatives but the price would be to lose all they have and it would belong to the government. Thirty five days later he decided to abolish this boat lift, and he left thousands hanging thinking they were going to be able to go. I can just imagine how awful it must be when someone with so much authority, whom you must believe because he runs your country, tells you something and doesn’t make it happen and just makes you lose hope. Yes, I do believe that a case can be made for charges of institutional racism. Institutional racism is when a group, government, or institution excludes a certain ethnic group from something without making notice. The reason why it is so hard to stand up for is because it is a group that it is being done by and not one specific person. The government or group is acting racist in not allowing a certain group of people into their country. They were blocking them out and weren’t being allowed to have their own freedom or go where they wanted to. They definitely should have put a charge for this when they had the chance. There were so many incidents that this occurred in from refusing to let individuals cross the borders, to immigrants coming and transferring the HIV virus. There was also dispute with how the Cubans and Haitians were being treated differently in the process of immigration. I was also shocked that during the time of the 9/11 attacks, that Haitians were a threat to national security. At least America has been able to somewhat balance and be flexible with the immigrants and emigrants. I believe we should help those immigrants as long as we can. We aren’t hurting anyone by doing so.