By an overwhelming percentage, legal immigrants don't have bad feelings toward the undocumented.
There's conventional wisdom among legal immigrants that both sides of the story are not being heard, that we hear all these negative things about the undocumented, but we don't hear about ... the fact these people are hard-working and that they stay out of trouble.
Until Cuban exiles get their country back and figure out a way to get rid of Castro, nothing else will matter to them.
He will be remembered for being the strongest political figure in the history of the Cuban exile community, but the coverage he received during that period made him very controversial among Anglo voters. It made it very difficult for him to cross over, which you need in Miami-Dade to win in larger districts.
He connects with audiences better, and I think that's something the Democratic Party has been missing in many of its candidates.
The majority feel the immigration debate is somewhat unfair and based on misinformation -- for example, that most undocumented are on welfare, which is not true. Legal immigrants feel there is a thin line between anti-undocumented and anti-immigrant.
The community has changed, but the hate for Castro hasn't. The Cuban-American community has evolved from what it was even five years ago, but in the interests of justice and so the decision of the jury isn't questioned, it would be better to have the retrial somewhere else.
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