What was that about illegal immigration?

It would seem there are many reasons why Cubans come to the USA. In all sincerity, I don't believe illegal immigrants seek to be wealthy in the USA, so much as to find work of any kind. They come without valuing their own lives to face danger of dying in their trek. It isn't wealth opportunity they seek. I mean, hello?

6:28AM BST 28 Aug 2012

Glenda Murillo Diaz, 24, (click title to entry - thank you) daughter of Vice President Marino Murillo, crossed over into Texas from Mexico, according to a report in the online version of US Spanish-language newspaper El Nuevo Herald.

Cubans who set foot on US soil are allowed to remain in the country as part of Washington's "wet foot, dry foot" policy. Cubans intercepted at sea are returned to Cuba.

The cause of Diaz's defection is not yet known, but the newspaper said the incident represents "a vote of no confidence in the economic reforms (President Raul) Castro has ordered, and that her father has a mandate to implement."

Cuba's vice president, an economist by trade, is known as the "reform tsar."...