Cuban and Hatian Immigration

Within that context, which plainly suggests significant ethnic and nation-of-origin diversity, it is readily observable that there are smaller communities that are relatively ethnically, linguistically, and racially homogeneous. In part that can be attributed to the fact that Census Bureau overviews do not necessarily capture the fact that some of the non-English-speaking residents of Miami-Dade County are illegal immigrants. In that connection, since the 1960s, Cubans fleeing the Castro regime who enter the US without documentation have historically been given preferential treatment with regard to legalizing their immigration status, while persons fleeing from other regimes in the Caribbean, notably Haitian and Mexican illegals, have not gotten the same treatment (Robinson, 2000). Controversy surrounds the issue, and race consciousness appears to be a distinct feature of experience in the are

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ble sociopolitical an economic obscurity of African-Americans in the Miami-Dade area. The situation has been complicated by the fact that Cubans are not the only Hispanic group in Miami-Dade to have been perceived as displacing and marginalizing American-born blacks. In the mid-1980s, for example, when the US was involved in the Contra effort to effect regime change in Nicaragua, Nicaraguan refugees began to arrive in Miami, only to be welcomed and helped by the government. Blacks went on the record expressing resentment at perceived institutional inequities: Many blacks charge that the city goes out of its way to provide housing, jobs and social services for the Hispanic immigrants, while ignoring the needs of the black citizenry. "The Nicaraguans get food, they get clothing," says Vanessa Haynes, 34, a black data-entry officer at the University of Miami. "What do our people get? Nothing!" (Lamar, 1989, p. 29). In early 1989, during the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday, a policeman shot an Overtown black motorcyclist who was carrying a passenger and who was speeding through the streets. The passenger was also killed when the bike crashed. It turned out that the policeman was born in Colombia, and at the time 43 percent of Miami
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