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.
America used to make it easy for the bright students of the world to go to American universitiew where almost all of them went for engineerint and science and medicine. Then we made it easy for them to stay., We got the world’s brains then It is harder now for the bright students. Many still come here but then we make them go home when they get their degree. Just one of the ways America engineered its own decline.