Fifth-generation Floridian here, having descended from my great-great grandfather Joseph Robles who came to Florda in 1832 as a stow-away aboard a ship from Malaga in Spain. Story is that his family was pressuring him to go into the priesthood, and he wanted nothing to do with that. You might say he was an original illegal alien, but Florida had not been admitted in the Union at that time.

He settled in Tampa Bay area and started one of the pioneering families; today Robles Park in Tampa bears the family name. More history here:

http://www.tampapix.com/robles.htm

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