Last week, 13 Cuban refugees crammed into a blue taxi (pictured) and set “sail” for the United States. That’s right. They took the taxi, turned it into a boat and drove through the 90 miles or so of water to escape the totalitarian regime they have lived under for the past 45 years.
I gotta give these guys applause for their efforts. The U.S. needs to update its policy towards immigrants fleeing from Cuba and revert it back to the Cold War policy. We should accept all immigrants that are fleeing from totalitarian regimes. The Coast Guard caught these guys and according to this article in U.S. News and World Report, “Generally, Cubans intercepted trying to make the 90-mile crossing from Cuba to Florida are sent home to the Communist-ruled island, while those who make it to U.S. soil are usually allowed to stay.”
The fact that they had to take a 1949 Mercury shows that the last time Cubans had it good was before a certain dictator came to power, that was 1959, when this car was already 10 years old. Good thing we have communists around, they can keep the same car running for more than 50 years and can utilize it in many different ways. Communism surely equals innovation. And, the car must have been running so good, these guys said, “Taxi! Take us to the United States.”
At least they traveled in style.