This article is more a discussion about culture than immigration. But, you go ahead and try to deflect the real reasons behind the article - the myth of the conservative hispanic.
You call Cuban Hispanics liberal? The premise of this essay is much too broad to paint all "hispanics" with the same brush.
There is a culture of perpetual poverty in the Hispanic community, I know, and it is very similar to the culture of perpetual poverty of the African Americans and the "ghetto".
The "barrio" mentality guarentees that this cycle will continue from generation to generation. The article points out all of the warning signs: That unwed pregnancies are no longer stigmatized, that it is acceptable to be on perpetual welfare, etc.
However, what is the root cause of this "barrio" mentality? The failure to assimilate into the "American" culture, instead relying on others in their own community due to their undocumeted status, and fueled I admit by biggoted Whites in their refusal to accept them. So instead they have turned inward and created their own subworld that has slowly morphed into what we have today.
Unfortunately the answer does not lie, as the author suggests, in more government programs, but instead in the Hispanic community itself changing the way they view education, self reliance, and responsibility. Unfortunately, for Hispanic leadership, like La Raza, victimhood is their only ticket to power, so since the change cannot be imposed from outside, and will not be adopted on the inside, things won't change.
The premise of "open border" and "amnesty" is what I was attacking. Did you not see those words in the last few paragraphs? The author was using the entire article as an argument against open borders and amnesty, which I agree, but not because Hispanics are inately "not conservative."