We got lucky with Cubans and ended up with a solid R base in Florida.
Maybe coming from the same kind of country they would think more like Cubans did?
I’m likely wrong. Just throwing it out there.
Responses welcome...Without calling my mother names :)
Cubans had socialism imposed on them.
Venezuelans voted for it.
I have a very good Venezuelan friend. He comes from the upper middle class.
His father owned a couple of stores and his step father was a fuels engineer in the oil fields. They were financially ruined by the Chavistas.
Most of the Venezuelans are poor “gimedats” who elected Chavez; not the middle class.
Many of the middle class, like my friend, escaped to the USA and live in Florida.
We should harbor all of them. NOT the poor, but those who where robbed by the Chavista commies.
We got lucky with the Cubans because the Cubans who came here were the productive ones who lost everything under Castro. They hated Castro from the get go.
Unfortunately, that solid R base is gradually eroding, at an increasing rate, with all the northerners moving down there. Toss in a healthy contingent of PRs and I’m think Florida is pretty much Blue on the national level. They almost elected a admitted Socialist, who should probably be in prison right now.
Now Cuba had communism forced, so the first gen knew from experience. The rest of South America voted it in.
No such thing as temporary status or temporary government program. It just gives them time to make plenty of anchor babies.