THE CUBAN STRATEGY.

William Finnegan discusses Cuban Miami and why the Republicans are worried

Last summer, out in the sunlit seas of the Florida Straits, the United States Coast Guard came upon a green 1951 Chevrolet flatbed truck motoring north from Cuba. The vehicle was being kept afloat by pontoons made from fifty-five-gallon drums; there was a propeller attached to its driveshaft. With twelve people aboard, the truck had already made it more than halfway to the United States--it was only forty miles south of Key West when it was intercepted. The Coast Guard took the passengers into custody, then machine-gunned the truck until it sank. A few days later, the refugees were dumped ...