Wednesday, July 14, 2021
By Gary Bauer
In his strongest statement yet regarding the border crisis, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said yesterday that Cubans should not get on a boat and attempt to flee communist Cuba.
Now, I'm not advocating for another Mariel boatlift. I want Cubans to fight for their country and restore liberty there.
But I couldn't help but wonder why Mayorkas was creating a completely different standard for people attempting to escape oppression in Cuba while people from 160 nations are crossing our wide-open southern border in record numbers.
Aren't Cubans fleeing communist oppression the very definition of "refugees"? So why isn't the Biden Administration welcoming Cuban refugees?
The only thing I can think of is that Cuban immigrants stand out because they understand communism and vote for pro-free enterprise, pro-freedom conservative candidates. But surely such brazen politics can't be the answer. Or is it?
China & Cuba
The communist regime in China yesterday issued multiple statements expressing solidarity with the communist regime in Cuba. Beijing declared that Cuba's problems had nothing to do with communism and were the fault of the U.S. boycott of the island. Once again, the Chinese communists sounded a lot like the American left.
I couldn't help but notice yesterday that Joe Biden expressed far more anger toward conservatives trying to pass election integrity laws than he has ever expressed toward either communist regime in Beijing or Havana that doesn't allow free elections.
And here's an interesting point raised by Senator Marco Rubio: Has the Biden Administration warned China and Russia against sending special forces to prop up the Cuban regime? If Xi and Putin do send troops, what does anyone think this administration would do about it?
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