Report: Cuban Pilot in Notorious Shootdown Incident Entered Under CHNV Parole
If true, the question’s not who Biden-Harris is letting in — it’s who, if anyone, they're keeping out
By Andrew R. Arthur on September 18, 2024
There’s been a lot of discussion lately about the impacts — fiscal and otherwise — of a Biden-Harris program that allows tens of thousands of inadmissible nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to enter the United States monthly, “CHNV parole”. Now, a former USCIS director claims one of those who took advantage of that scheme is a former Cuban military pilot who took part in a notorious 1996 operation in which two unarmed civilian planes were shot down, killing three U.S. citizens and a green card holder. The question’s no longer who the administration is letting in on CHNV parole — it’s who, if anyone, they’re keeping out.
“Brothers to the Rescue”. “Brothers to the Rescue” was a U.S.-based NGO that used small planes to search the waters between Florida and Cuba, looking for migrants who had taken to the high seas.
In February 1996, two Cessnas belonging to the organization were shot down by Cuban air force MiG-29 jets, killing Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena, and Pablo Morales. Costa, Alejandre, and de la Pena were U.S. citizens, while Morales was a Cuban national and lawful permanent resident.
Not surprisingly, a shootdown of unarmed prop planes by military jets triggered an international incident and a lot of finger-pointing and recrimination from both Havana and Washington.
https://cis.org/Arthur/Report-Cuban-Pilot-Notorious-Shootdown-Incident-Entered-Under-CHNV-Parole
