The American Thinker posted an article today by Humberto Fontova regarding the relaxing of restrictions on Cuban-Americans to visit or send things to relatives still in Cuba. Mr. Fontova points out in the article:
An FBI investigation in South Florida this summer, for instance, turned up a Medicare Fraud scandal totaling $142 million. The Benitez brothers, Carlos, Jose and Luis, who arrived in Miami in 1995 from Cuba, are accused of being responsible for $84 million of this swindle. "Thirty-three of the 36 fugitives whose names have been released by authorities are Cuban immigrants," reported the Miami Herald, "most of whom came to the United States during the past 15 years. Half of these (including the Benitez brothers) have fled back to Cuba to escape prosecution, using their Cuban passports.""
One of the things pointed out in the article was the fact that due to the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act, Cubans who arrive in this country and apply for political asylum are able to become citizens much more quickly than other Hispanic immigrants. The article points out some of the abuses of this system and some of the abuses of the freedom to send money to Cuba that led to restrictions being put in place in 2004. The article is worth reading just for these details.
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