{"id":36132,"date":"2024-01-10T09:03:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=36132"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:45:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T23:45:35","slug":"how-race-and-politics-created-two-different-americas-for-cubans-and-haitians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/how-race-and-politics-created-two-different-americas-for-cubans-and-haitians\/","title":{"rendered":"How Race And Politics Created Two Different Americas For Cubans And Haitians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban and Haitian Americans have formed a fundamental part of South Florida\u2019s culture since the mid-20th century.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, both groups face vastly unequal outcomes once they reach the land of opportunity due to an immigration policy that disproportionately benefits Cubans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Similar Stories, Different Outcomes<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Fidel Castro consolidated power in Cuba and aligned himself with the Soviet Union in 1961, the U.S. feared the spread of communism. In turn, they blockaded the island to cripple it economically.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1966, the Lyndon B. Johnson administration passed the <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/green-card\/green-card-eligibility\/green-card-for-a-cuban-native-or-citizen\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cuban Adjustment Act<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which labeled Cuban immigrants as political refugees and granted them permanent residency within two years of arriving in the U.S.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sociologist Susan Eva Eckstein notes in her book, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/revista.drclas.harvard.edu\/cuban-privilege\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Cuban Privilege: The Making of Immigrant Inequality in America<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, how Cuban exiles also received benefits like relicensing programs and supplemental security income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the Cuban Adjustment Act was not a humanitarian policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was an attempt to politically punish Cuba by draining it of its talent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the Cuban Revolution was underway, Haiti suffered from the dictatorial rule of the Duvalier dynasty from 1957 to 1986. As in Cuba, political repression and human rights violations were the norm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the 1970s and 80s, thousands of Haitian Americans fled to the U.S. In 1980, 25,000 Haitians arrived in South Florida by boat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the U.S. never created a law for Haitians equivalent to the Cuban Adjustment Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, many Haitians were considered as economic migrants rather than political refugees, <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/haiti-immigration-mistreatment\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">denied a protected legal status<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and deported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Haitian-Americans in Miami are <\/span><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/prosperitynow.org\/files\/PDFs\/profiles\/Racial_Wealth_Divide_in_Miami_RWDI.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">poorer, less educated, less likely to own a home and more likely to be unemployed<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> than Cubans, according to the Racial Wealth Divide Initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b>Fairness For All<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowadays, it&#8217;s easy to blame individuals for their personal faults. If you are poor, it&#8217;s because you are lazy or stupid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This perspective fails to acknowledge how sociopolitical structures affect our lives and contributes to racism in America.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If there\u2019s one thing the Cuban Adjustment Act has proven, it\u2019s that with enough help, a refugee coming from one of the poorest and most oppressive nations can reach the American Dream.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather than end the benefits to Cuban Americans, the U.S. should seek to expand them to other refugees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All refugees, not just Cubans, are worthy of reaching the mountaintop.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juan S. Gomez is a junior at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina majoring in sociology. 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