Cuban Exile Groups in South Florida
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The population of South Florida today contains a large contingent of exiles and refugees from Castro's Cuba, part of a mass exodus of disaffected and politically persecuted Cubans who have left their homeland since the Cuban Revolution. Many of those who came here in the first wave after the revolution believed they would be returning home, perhaps within a few months, but as the years have passed the Cuban population has become more socially and economically integrated into the U.S. culture in Florida even while maintaining ties with Cuba and while trying to keep alive the hope that Castro could be overthrown and democracy restored in Cuba. The presence of this large exile group has had a profound effect on South Florida, especially in terms of politics given the dedication of this group to influencing U.S. policy toward Cuba, but also in the social and economic structure of the region. What has developed in South Florida is actually a two-tiered social structure for Cuban refugees, with the long-term Cuban population more integrated into the economy and with newer refugees often straining social services in the early years after their arrival. The Cuban refugees have come in waves, and the fear of another wave of such refugees caused Florida officials to seek assistance from Washington. Florida already has stretched social services, hospitals, schools, and charities, and in April 1994 Governor Lawton Chiles sued the federal government for $2.6 billion to cover the cost
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policy with reference to relations with Cuba. No American President has been willing to pay the political price of normalizing relations with Cuba (Allman 310-311).
More recently, though, the Clinton Administration has challenged the Cuban community in a different way by changing the rules concerning the admittance and rejection of refugees from that part of the world. The first of these changes is that Cubans who have been in detention camps in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base will be admitted to the United States over the next few years. This comes after several denials that those refugees would ever be allowed into the country. The second change is historic and means that refugees from Cuban Communism, previously welcomed into the United States, will now be forcibly handed over to the Castro regime by the U.S. Coast Guard. While Castro has promised that no one who is sent back will be mistreated, and while President Clinton promises that no one in real danger will be sent back, neither statement is taken as accurate. Elliott Abrams recently wrote of this new approach,
The new policy is monstrous. This country never threw anyone back over the Berlin Wall; we never turned a Soviet Jew or Pentecostal over to the KGB; and un
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)
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