"After proper screening, Cubans are one group that I would welcome."
I tend to agree. Unfortunately, it is a little tricky thinking about immigration from Cuba, after the Mariel fiasco. No doubt that was one of Castro's motivations in setting that whole scam up.
Not everyone who came over in the Mariel boatlift was a criminal. (You probably already know this, but I didn't until recently). A guy was here last year doing some plumbing work for me and we got to chatting, and I asked him where he was from (he had a heavy accent). Cuba he told me. He had come over in the Mariel boatlift he said. I was kind of shocked, (I was alone in the house with this guy while he was working on my sink--he was a licensed plumber).
He told me that he was indeed in prison in Cuba, but was put in there for talking against the government...when he was 17 years old! So, while I know there were alot of run of the mill baddies, I wonder how many were political prisoners? BTW he was VERY conservative.
susie