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And judging from visits to Miami from time to time, I think many, though they speak English, prefer Spanish. Now if they had a certain level of perception, they might consider that the explicit removal of Spanish from state forms involves a component of cultural insult to a population that, despite its assimilation, is Hispanic and defaults to speaking in Spanish when they're relaxed. And, of course, it requires either ignorance or rejection of history, because when they or their forebears came to the US in the 1960's most states had no Spanish forms or accommodations. The
Cubans who came here back then were largely undocumented, asylum seekers under the very parole provisions they and the powers that be now consider anathema. Back then the process for getting a green card and eventual citizenship was relatively straightforward, something they now seem vehemently to oppose.
When my wife was a teenager she and her mother did the thing, by going to Montreal, re-entering as documented immigrants with a green card, and later becoming citizens. It was standard procedure once to have to leave the country and come back in, something that would almost certainly be impossible now.
I'm glad to say that not all once-Cuban exiles share that ethos of swatting the swimmers away from the lifeboat. It's unfortunate so many do.
