Hijos de las Guerras

The tens of thousands of Central American children streaming towards the US border are refugees from violence and economic crisis fostered by decades of wrongheaded US foreign policy. 

By comparison with the Central Americans, tens of thousands of Cubans have been welcomed for decades as "refugees from communism" and granted immediate status, creating a right-wing Miami boom after their arrival. Few conservatives would claim those Cuban exiles were a "drain on the taxpayer" or a threat to America's "way of life." Yet they have harbored cliques of anti-Castro terrorism, turned southern Florida into a sanctuary for their numerous plots, and built a "Cuban lobby" which has distorted American politics with money and votes for years.