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Engineering asylum claims?

Sand · 2002-03-01 23:29:26

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2002/0301/breaking14.htm Thats interesting. While we could talk here all night as to why Cubans would want to leave their communist paradise for the capitalist hellhole that is Mexico ( Probably only a stepping stone to the even worse US), the more interesting part is the fact that…

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http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2002/0301/breaking14.htm

Thats interesting. While we could talk here all night as to why Cubans would want to leave their communist paradise for the capitalist hellhole that is Mexico ( Probably only a stepping stone to the even worse US), the more interesting part is the fact that they rammed a bus through the gates and then..... well they did something but it wasnt asking for political asylum, according to the Mexicans. The poor misguided cubans are probably enjoying the tender ministrations of their communist comrades political re education programme at this time. Does anyone believe they didnt ask for asylum?

On another note - Lets say these people did ask for political asylum. I saw the article in the Irish Times (an earlier version) where it was said Mexico should grant them asylum because otherwise the Castro would punish them severely (The cubans apparently were chanting a lot of anti- castro slogans). To get to the point, if these people had not brought themselves to the attention of Castro previously, but had done so *in the process* of entering the embassy to make their asylum claim would their asylum claim be valid? I.E could, or should, you be allowed to "engineer" grounds for asylum?

My own view is a bit adivided- Ive sympathy for those suffering under left wing regimes but if their justification is they cant go back after having made an asylum claim then they cant have been under threat from the regime previously.

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