Then, for a decade on the East Coast, I talked to wonderful Cubans like your father in law who fled the terror of Castro. Castro was and still is one of the most evil men to have ever lived on this earth.Thank you for your kind words about the Cubans. I have never met a group of warmer, harder working, and more morally upstanding people in my life. Almost every Cuban who came here in the 60's and 70's have thrived.
He would have had zero problem in killing as many Americans in 1962 as possible, and he would still kill all of us if he had a chance.
I remember reading on an earlier thread that he was going to do it but a Russian Admiral stopped him.
Lest anyone forget, we owe GW's victory to the Cuban vote. They are the only hispanic group that votes solidly Republican. However, Clinton had started to make inroads. That Elian fiasco put an end to that and the rest as they say is history.
Basically every Cuban who came to America has been a good and hard working citizen.
When Castro emptied his jails and sent the really bad people up here that changed the picture somewhat. Everyone that comes ashore now needs to be investigate and the Cuban/American community needs to watch them like hawks. If they have any reasons why these newer ones should not be here, they sould let the authorities know why.
Some of the 3rd and 4th generation post Castro revolution became socialists or semi communists. The Elian nightmare woke up a lot of them if not most of them.
We moved to the west coast in the early 70's and there aren't that many Cuban Americas out here in the bay area. I can say that I never met a single one on the East Coast that I didn't like and respect. Any of them would have been welcome neighbors.