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Exodus of Cubans fuels clash of new and old
MIAMI (AP) — At a small store on Eighth Street near Miami's Little Havana, Armando Perez paid $25 to activate his daughter's cell phone in Cuba. Store owner Laura Benitez sat behind a glass window, typing in the phone numbers for Perez and others calling Cuba.
"I call my daughter every week, even if it's just for her to say, 'Papi, I love you,'" said Perez, a thin man who left the island on a boat in 2008.
Benitez, who fled with her parents shortly after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, doesn't have family in Cuba. Many of her clients, however, grew up under the communist system and immigrated in the last 10 years.
"They need to go back to Cuba to see their family," Benitez said. "I don't understand because my parents are here. Maybe if they were in Cuba I would go back."
Some 46,662 Cubans left the island legally and permanently last year, the largest migration in a single year since 1994, according to figures from Cuba's National Statistics Office.
Since 2002, the number leaving has hovered around 30,000 annually, making the last 10 years the largest exodus since the start of the revolution. That's in addition to an estimated 7,000 to 19,000 who leave Cuba illegally each year — some by boat and many with the U.S. as their final destination. . . .
Since 2002, the number leaving has hovered around 30,000 annually, making the last 10 years the largest exodus since the start of the revolution. That's in addition to an estimated 7,000 to 19,000 who leave Cuba illegally each year — some by boat and many with the U.S. as their final destination. . . .
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And this is just one country, but the US must always remain the overflow flood basin to the world, because, to our overlords, America shall always be a sparely populated wide-open frontier Disneyland of growth and opportunity with jobs and resources galore. (And did I mention almost no nonwhite crime to speak of?)
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