The Crazy Congressional Cubans Are At it Again

From the Miami Herald (and it's disgusting):

Sergeant

Carlos Lazo won't get to see his kids this year.

The U.S. combat medic who was awarded a Bronze Star for his courage in Iraq will not be allowed to travel to Cuba, where his teenage boys live with their mother.

On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart blocked a measure on the floor of the House of Representatives that would have exempted Lazo, on humanitarian grounds, from the Bush administration's travel restrictions to the island.

The amendment never even made it to a vote, as Diaz-Balart found a way to snuff it on procedural grounds.

''It wasn't a surprise that he blocked it,'' Lazo told me by phone from his home in Seattle. His Washington state National Guard unit just finished a year in Iraq.

Lazo, who came to the United States from Cuba in 1992, tried to see his kids last year during a two-week leave. He flew from Iraq to Miami and had a plane ticket to Havana in his hand at Miami International Airport when the new restrictions went into effect.

Cuban Americans can only visit immediate family members once every three years. Lazo last saw his boys in 2003 and won't be eligible again until next year.

Ever since Lazo, 40, was denied a chance to see his sons, he has waged a campaign to call attention to the cruelty of the travel restrictions. It is a battle he has continued since returning home from Iraq in March.

''Now we are behaving no differently than the Cuban government,'' Lazo said. ``Castro keeps families apart and now we keep families apart.''

If there's a sane legislator among the Crazy Congressional Cubans of Florida (like Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Ballarts anuses), I've yet to meet them. I call them Crazy because from the embargo, to Castro, to little Elian Gonzalez, this crew is rabid and eager to spend anything - including massive amounts of American tax dollars and the lives of American troops - and hurt anybody to further their agenda against Cuba.

One would think that if one comes to this country and then serves in Congress, their greatest allegiance should be TO this country rather than working hate against their former homeland. But no, not with these folks.