I guess everyone is too outraged to remember this treatment of people under Bill Clinton.....

I served in the US Navy and saw unbelievable desperation in the Caribbean. The first time we were performing interdiction for a Haitian Crisis. We would burn their boats and put them back in Port Au Prince.
http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-16/n...ti-embargo


Later we were involved in a massive operation that led to the start of Wet Foot/Dry Foot which was terminated by Obama. The scale of human misery was heartbreaking and still bothers me today. A people so desperate to flee communist dictators that they would go through shark infested waters on anything that floats. One elderly man had his medical degrees rolled into his underwear so he could prove he was worthy of asylum. The thousands we "rescued" all ended up in Guantanamo. They were heartbroken when they found out we were not taking them to Key West Naval Base. Here is a wiki summary. You will note the actual terms of Internment camp and barb wire.

President Clinton, trying to stem the flow of Cuban rafters, pressed a dozen Latin American governments to provide internment camps that officials hoped would prove more attractive to refugees than the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Although the refugees at Guantanamo were held behind barbed wire, to many, the base was less forbidding than a foreign internment camp.

As a result of bilateral migration accords between the two governments, in September 1994 and May 1995, the status quo of U.S. policy toward Cuban migrants was altered significantly. The U.S. granted Cuba an annual minimum of 20,000 legal immigrant visas and, at the same time, determined that Cubans picked up at sea would be sent home just as any other group of illegal immigrants. President Clinton's agreement with Cuba resolved the dilemma of the approximately 33,000 Cubans then at Guantanamo. This new agreement had two new points. The United States agreed to take most of the Cubans detained at Guantanamo through the humanitarian parole provision. Cuba agreed to credit some of these admissions toward the minimum quota of 20,000 migrants from Cuba, with 5,000 charged annually over the years. Secondly, rather than placing Cubans intercepted at sea in a camp, the United States began sending them back to Cuba. Both governments promised to follow international agreements to ensure that no action would be taken against the people returned to Cuba.
As a result of these migration agreements and interdiction policy, a "wet foot/dry foot" practice toward Cuban immigrants has developed

Enforcing laws sucks sometimes but it is whole necessary to prevent more suffering. The border is a mess with rape trees and coyote smuggling.

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