It has been extremely alarming at the large number of Cuban migrants that have been in our waters over the past month.

It is an unprecedented number and our Fairbanks Detention centre is almost half full of the migrants that have had the unfortunate mishap to have had to land on our beaches.

CITN/Cayman27 reported on Tuesday “Two groups, totalling 77 people, arrived in Cayman Brac within five hours on Monday, and more are said to be on the horizon.”

It is unfortunate for them and worse, even more unfortunate for us.

We have to provide housing, food, electricity, social services, security, welfare, transportation, repatriation expenses, etc. to accommodate our neighbours in the north.

And just so we don’t get too loving in our kindness to these homeless migrants looking for a better life, they thank us with hurling rocks at their immigration “warders”.

One can only wonder at what the Cuban authorities would have dealt them in punishment back in their home country if they had tried the same thing. Not content with that they climb the fences and escape onto our streets and expect more acts of love from us.

Not one of the migrants I have seen shows any signs of malnutrition.

Compare that to Asian countries. You see people starving there by the millions.

I wrote a similar Editorial on the conduct of the Cuban migrants in March saying they were not winning any friends with their escape ploy.

My stance on their behaviour has even hardened since then.

The biggest blame on their hardship story must be placed on the United States of America. The land of the free and justice for all but not when it comes to Cuba.

I hope you all read Harold Green’s illuminating personal view on Cuba published today in iNews Cayman and titled “A Caribbean obsession: The United States’ endless campaign to destabilize Cuba”.

His opening paragraph reads:

“The recent revelations about the USAID’s farfetched scheme to foster a popular anti-government protest movement by infiltrating Cuba’s mobile phone network perhaps bring full circle America’s 55-year campaign to destroy the Cuban Revolution. Fortunately for the people of Cuba, none of these bewildering, hairbrained and often violent schemes – which have included countless attacks on Cuban soil – have succeeded. The most notable, of course, being the disastrous CIA sponsored 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. Still, these failed attempts have resulted in the loss of thousands of Cuban lives.”

Green also puts into focus that nothing has changed with the USA policy towards Cuba even today:

“Even when the U.S. appears to be backing off of this obsession by modifying its foreign policy toward Cuba, it doesn’t take long to realize, after reading the official policy documents, that nothing has changed. The Obama administration’s latest example of this, the altruistic sounding People to People Program, which makes it easier for Americans to travel to Cuba – albeit with restrictions – is nothing more than a destabilization program by other means.

“With its emphasis on “people to people” contact, it is the hope of the Obama administration to have Americans go to Cuba and influence ordinary Cubans to turn against the Cuban government. The Cuban officials are too smart to be taken in by such schemes, of course, and while willing to take advantage of whatever benefits that are to be derived from such policy changes, closely monitor American behavior in Cuba and, more often than not, are able to minimize would be negative effects and often catch would be spies.”

Perhaps the US should put its own house in order before it tells the rest of the World how they should behave?

We here in Cayman, one of the smallest countries in the world have to deal with something the USA, one of the largest countries, made and they cannot fathom they are at fault. They haven’t offered us one cent in assistance. As for advice we certainly don’t need that.

However, there is a limit as to how much more we can provide in support to persons who view us as the enemy too.