Martha’s Vineyard

[racer254]

 As Afghans flee the Taliban regime and flow into the United States, they are landing in places like Fort McCoy, situated in rural Wisconsin.

It’s the current temporary home for up to 13,000 recently-evacuated Afghan refugees, though Army officials would not disclose the actual number on base.

Marcos Andres Hernandez Calderon lives in nearby La Crosse, Wisconsin and knows their situations all too well, and just how difficult it will be for this generation of refugees.

Calderon was one of the thousands who came to the same Fort McCoy, fleeing Fidel Castro’s Cuba as a refugee more than 40 years ago, first coming by boat to southern Florida.

“You can see you how your country disappears in your eyes. You don’t know when you’re gonna go back there, when you’re gonna see your family again,” Calderon told CNN, choking back tears as he pleaded for people to put themselves in the shoes of these refugees, shoes he once wore. “So you feel what they feel. It’s not easy, you know. Being separated from your family, coming to a country where you just don’t know anything. I don’t know the language, I don’t know the people, you don’t know how the people are gonna like or dislike you.”

The conditions of the 1980 Cuban refugee influx, otherwise known as the “Mariel Boatlift,” were different from what the thousands of Afghan refugees are fleeing from now. Named for the Port of Mariel, west of Havana, these “Marielitos” left after Castro announced they could, in numbers that eventually grew to roughly 125,000 people, primarily making the journey by boat.

A number of them had been released from Cuban jails and mental health facilities, making for what at times was a volatile population inside places like Fort McCoy at the time.

“Living in there was uhh… it was something,” Calderon said through a laugh. “It was people from mental hospitals, it was people from prison, it was people from the government, it was people from everywhere and a lot of them didn’t like each other. Sometimes you got fights, sometimes you danced, sometimes you hear music.”

It’s a situation he and other Cubans like him in the rural Wisconsin area see as different from what’s happening now.

“I don’t think they’re going to fear as much as we did because they came asking for asylum due to the war that was going on over there,” said Jose Lores, a 64-year-old former Cuban refugee who arrived in southern Florida by boat in June 1980 before being taken to Fort McCoy. “They know they were being persecuted and they [the Taliban] were going to kill them. They’re going to have to thank God for America because America open the door to receive them.”

“Just because you don’t know them, they are a different race, they’re a different color, it doesn’t matter. We’re all human, and we all deserve a second chance,” said Norberto Gomez Mendez, a 63-year-old former Cuban refugee. “I believe that here in America you open the door to the whole world, America is built from people that immigrate from everywhere in the world.”

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/04/world/afghan-refugees-wisconsin-cuba-boatlift/index.html

[Doug]

 

[Rod]

[J. Jackson]

A church bought a empty nursing home 1/4 mile from me and is housing Ukrainian refugees there. Haven't seen any of them yet though.

[Ez ryder]

On 9/17/2022 at 9:37 AM, Mainecat said:

What a bunch of fake Christians…..makes me fuckin sick.

you support anti abortion laws ….save the child’s…..blah fuckin blah…but use humans as a political pawns and for your parties comedic value. Ownin the libs….LMAO

 

 

Idiot of the highest order . When Biden takes female money away from the American homeless to ship iliigals accross America every day that is different FUCK YOU 

It’s not just Texas that’s busing illegal immigrants deep into the country — Uncle Sam is doing it too by paying nonprofit organizations tens of millions of dollars to help transport and settle migrants into more communities.

The Biden administration is sending the money through the Federal Emergency Management Agency via a program created in the 1980s to deal with homelessness.

In recent years, that homeless mission has been overtaken by the task of helping illegal immigrants who have been caught and released at the border take their first steps toward settling in the U.S.

President Biden asked this month for an infusion of cash for the Emergency Food and Shelter Program at FEMA. He said the border situation has become too much to handle with current funding.

He also sought an infusion for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement so the deportation agency can help shuttle migrants around the country, and he asked for $1.8 billion more for the Health and Human Services Department to house illegal immigrant children and provide assistance more broadly to other border jumpers.The requests are part of the administration’s proposal for continuing government funding into fiscal 2023, which starts Oct. 1. Congress hasn’t made progress on the annual spending bills and is expected to pass a continuing resolution that would maintain 2022 funding levels into the next fiscal year.Still, Mr. Biden said some needs are urgent, and immigration spending is part of that. In a document submitted to Congress, the White House blamed “emerging needs along the southern border.”

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, the top Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs appropriations subcommittee, said the money the White House is requesting doesn’t begin to address the fundamentals of the border crisis.

“The Biden administration needs to address the crisis at the border more broadly than in any CR anomaly,” she told The Washington Times in a statement. “We have surpassed over 2 million migrants for the fiscal year, yet they continue to avoid the decisions that can help us actually stem this crisis.”

Mr. Biden is more than a year and a half into the migrant surge. Although the overall monthly numbers have dipped, they are still running at a near-record pace. In July, U.S. officials encountered nearly 200,000 unauthorized migrants at the border.

Most were caught and then released.

 

[Skidooski]

11 hours ago, J. Jackson said:

A church bought a empty nursing home 1/4 mile from me and is housing Ukrainian refugees there. Haven't seen any of them yet though.

Nice to hear a church (who has less money and resources than those on MV) steps up and actually helps people in need   

[steve from amherst]

[Mainecat]

brown immigrants = bad

[Pete]

6 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

brown immigrants = bad

Wrong.. liar.. emotional cunt.

Anyone that crosses in without approval = bad.

Let’s change this to all japs crossing in.. You’re good with that too?

Edited September 19, 2022 by Pete

[Skidooski]

9 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Big boomer derp

[DriftBusta]

35 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

brown immigrants = bad

Cape Cod=1% black population

[Steve753]

31 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Cape Cod=1% black population

Whitey Bulger=badass 

[800renegaderider]

3 hours ago, steve from amherst said:

 but not so much in the movie he eventually learns his ways are wrong and changes we all know the elites on Martha’s Vineyard will never change and allow illegals on their island.

Edited September 19, 2022 by 800renegaderider

[Mag6240]

Just now, 800renegaderider said:

 but not so much in the movie he eventually learns his ways are wrong and changes we all know the elites on Martha’s Vineyard will never change and allow illegals on their island.

Well, maybe to mow their lawns....

[Ez ryder]

3 hours ago, Mainecat said:

brown immigrants = bad

Iligsls bad 

Idiot 

[Ez ryder]

3 hours ago, Pete said:

Wrong.. liar.. emotional cunt.

Anyone that crosses in without approval = bad.

Let’s change this to all japs crossing in.. You’re good with that too?

That's a lot longer swim than the Rio 

Oh and the fact japs live to do paperwork and do things in a orderly fashion 

Edited September 19, 2022 by Ez ryder

[Skidooski]

44 minutes ago, 800renegaderider said:

 but not so much in the movie he eventually learns his ways are wrong and changes we all know the elites on Martha’s Vineyard will never change and allow illegals on their island.

We need to test this theory by continually sending them loads of aliens. Might soften up real estate values on the island   

Edited September 19, 2022 by Skidooski

[Mainecat]

1 hour ago, Ez ryder said:

Iligsls bad 

Idiot 

They are not illegals dumb ass. Get your block head out of the sand.

[Mainecat]

4 hours ago, DriftBusta said:

Cape Cod=1% black population

Whats the percentage of black clients do you have? I’m guessing 1%.

[Pete]

3 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

They are not illegals dumb ass. Get your block head out of the sand.

They entered illegally.. so what do you call them?

[Steve753]

5 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

They are not illegals dumb ass. Get your block head out of the sand.

They were illegals

"Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," Taryn Fenske, communications director for DeSantis, told Fox News Digital

[800renegaderider]

19 minutes ago, Steve753 said:

They were illegals

"Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," Taryn Fenske, communications director for DeSantis, told Fox News Digital

Undocumented aliens you racist 😝 

[Steve753]

6 minutes ago, 800renegaderider said:

Undocumented aliens you racist 😝 

See now that sounds like they're from Mars or something!

[Mainecat]

1 hour ago, Steve753 said:

They were illegals

"Yes, Florida can confirm the two planes with illegal immigrants that arrived in Martha's Vineyard today were part of the state's relocation program to transport illegal immigrants to sanctuary destinations," Taryn Fenske, communications director for DeSantis, told Fox News Digital

Florida and DeSantis claimed…lol

The were documented migrants.

[Steve753]

8 minutes ago, Mainecat said:

Florida and DeSantis claimed…lol

The were undocumented illegal  migrants.

Fixed it for you.

Edited September 19, 2022 by Steve753