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To: CharlesWayneCT
I think I agree with Jeb on this one, but let's watch for the fireworks here.....

If you visit Miami today and you've been there before, years ago, you would probably agree with Tancredo.

Here in the conservative end of Florida (Panhandle) we used to see bumper stickers in the 80's that read: "Will the last American to leave Miami please bring the flag".

But there is a bit of a twist. Most of Miami's immigrants are legal and came from Cuba.

They are almost the exact opposite of the Mexicans swarming our borders to the west that Tancredo is familiar with.

10 posted on 11/30/2006 1:20:26 PM PST by capt. norm (Liberalism = cowardice disguised as tolerance.)
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To: capt. norm

Florida had the nation's fifth highest number of illegal immigrants in its population in 2000 according to the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). And that was in 2000, it hasn't improve since than.
My bet would be the majority are in Miami-Dade county.


43 posted on 11/30/2006 2:06:11 PM PST by Sherri
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To: capt. norm

"But there is a bit of a twist. Most of Miami's immigrants are legal and came from Cuba."

They just probably all look like Mexicans to Tancredo.


78 posted on 11/30/2006 3:11:53 PM PST by Garvin ("As long as we have Marines like Corporal Jason Dunham, America will never fear for her liberty" GWB)
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To: capt. norm
But there is a bit of a twist. Most of Miami's immigrants are legal and came from Cuba.

Don't tell me you are one of the last people who haven't figured out that the Tancredo crowd doesn't like legal immigrants much more then they like illegal ones.

His position is essentially this, "I like legal immigrants, but we don't want more of them, matter of fact, we want a lot less."

Which essentially means, "I don't like immigrants."

187 posted on 12/01/2006 12:53:13 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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To: capt. norm

Tancredo is an idiot.


204 posted on 12/01/2006 2:46:16 PM PST by e_castillo
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