A VDARE.com reader points out that Florida state representative David Rivera (R-Miami) introduced a bill in the legislature in 2004 that "would punish Cuban Refugees who traveled back to Cuba by cutting off access to Medicaid, Food stamps and housing assistance."

Rivera’s bill was predictably condemned by the Treason Lobby’s fellow-travelers in Cuba as "a half-baked scheme."

Given the magnet of immigration benefit fraud and the accompanying corruption of the refugee and asylum system, why would a newly-minted lawful permanent resident (former refugee or asylee) immediately travel back to the country from which he or she supposedly fled because of "persecution"?

Answer: to arrange for more family members to come to the United States, of course!—under the family-chain immigrant petitioning made possible by the 1965 Immigration Act.

• Abolition of the special preferences of the Cuban Adjustment Act.

• Revocation of status and benefits to 'refugees' who travel back-and-forth to their native countries.

Maybe these are ideas whose time has come?

Find out the full story in my latest column on VDARE.com

• 10/10/05 - Cubans Overrunning Florida Keys. Guess Who's Paying For It?

Also from the Juan Mann archive:

• 04/05/04—South Florida Confidential: Upper Keys Times Blows The Whistle On Refugee Scam

• 04/12/04—VDARE.COM Reader Reveals More Refugee Benefit Fraud