The Cubans in Miami are good additions to the country as are the Vietnamese. Both groups work hard and avoid entanglement with government to a greater extent than any other minority group. They pay a lot more in taxes than they suck up in “benefits.’ I have always thought that the country should have taken all the refugees we could get from both places, with a certain amount of weeding out, of course. Mariel showed the necessity of that.
“The Cubans in Miami are good additions to the country as are the Vietnamese. Both groups work hard and avoid entanglement with government to a greater extent than any other minority group. They pay a lot more in taxes than they suck up in “benefits.’ I have always thought that the country should have taken all the refugees we could get from both places, with a certain amount of weeding out, of course. Mariel showed the necessity of that.”
Excellent post!
Definitely; the original refugees were staunch anti-communists generally from the middle and upper classes. Now many of the refugees are economic as opposed to political, and this has been used to press for revising the policy where those who “reach the beach” can stay.
One sign of this country’s deterioration was when many of the best and brightest from the world’s developed nations stopped coming here; we still attract those fleeing the Third World, but Europeans are increasingly willing to stay put.