Comments | curlygirly0921: Smuggled At Sea

curlygirly0921

Smuggled At Sea

Feb 21, 2008 11:48

If you ever wanted to know more about the 'cuban' story... at least the one going on in 2008... take a look at the exclusive report done by one our reporters. He did an amazing job, and wrote a great article for our website. I get chills everytime I watch it.

http://www.nbc6.net/news/15344251/detail.html?dl=mainclick

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devball February 21 2008, 17:41:00 UTC

I've been waiting for your entry about Castro resigning. Trying to get an accurate picture of the situation from west coast newstations is impossible; it's a 20 second story. Followed, of course, by a ten minute update on Britney's kids - ugh. Do you think it actually means anything? Or is his brother just more of the same?

curlygirly0921 February 21 2008, 19:06:55 UTC

The Castro post is coming... I got a call from a manager at 7am-- my phone was on silent-- so by the time I woke up at 830am, I had to scramble to work. We didn't do any kind of crazy continuous coverage ( ... )

stweedie February 21 2008, 18:41:24 UTC

wow. What a great/powerful story. Living in North Florida we hear about this stuff, but don't get to see it nearly as much. It is such a sad predicament....I know watching the Iraqi's come here has been so hard- and they did it completely legally!

My question is this- if you make it to land, you are allowed to stay. What happens when someone who makes it to land and stays gets caught by the Coast Guard transporting others?

curlygirly0921 February 21 2008, 19:03:35 UTC

Well I think the guy in the story who has only been in the US for 6 months and was arrested for smuggling-- I have a feeling he'll be sent back, because he's probably still in the process of getting his immigration status.

The story is re-airing in my 7pm newscast today. We've been getting TONS of emails on it.

atweedieuf February 21 2008, 18:54:05 UTC

that's a really impressive story. I've come to understand/sympathize with the plight of immigrants over the last few years. After hearing your family's story, working with a ton of Mexicans, and seeing the Iraqi's, I can better understand what people are going through. It's a really sad state of affairs when people would rather risk EVERYTHING to come here than to stay in their own homes.