Breathing Freedom in America
AP reports: “Bernardo Heredia fled communist Cuba a decade ago, and this year loaned his lookalike younger brother his U.S. residency documents to help him do the same.
But what started in March as an act of familial love became a full-blown sacrifice when Cuban authorities got wise to the ploy and refused to let the elder Heredia leave the island, effectively switching the lives of two brothers.”
To be clear, we don’t condone illegal immigration (especially with the rampant abuse) and here’s an example of a family trying to pull a fast one. It backfired.
However, there should be some interested parties who can sympathize with this situation.
Heredia spent 30 days in a detention center. When he was released, he said, he was told he wouldn’t be leaving Cuba anytime soon.“This is revenge,” he said. “They know that to live in this country is so bad and depressing that that is the punishment. The immigration officials … said to me: ‘Your brother left, so you stay here.’“
A detention center. No civil rights. A communist country whose citizens call “bad and depressing.” Sounds like a perfect case for Amnesty International. Where are they? Don’t they care?
“[In America], the younger Heredia lives with his brother’s wife and their 2-year-old daughter, who sometimes mistakes her uncle for her dad. He works a night shift cleaning a casino and studies English.“It’s marvelous here  the total opposite of Cuba,” he said. “One breathes freedom. You can feel it.”
Indeed. Proud to be American. Maybe more outspoken, appreciative legal immigrants can breathe some sense into all those who oppose the U.S., here and abroad.