Westchester and other suburban areas while Little Havana gained more population from the new arrivals. Further uplifting actually occurred here through the replacement of many of the old housing units by brand new ones... By 1980. the Christian Science Monitor stated flatly. "There are no Cuban slums." Did all this influx of Cuban refugeestheir education. their gradual adaptation to lifedid all this impose an additional tax burden on Miami. The fact is a spectacular reverse. Miamis Mayor Maurice Ferre has calculated that the total amount of taxes paid by Cuban refugees has been five times higher than the total aid required by the Cubans. The Heritage Report concludes as follows: When Cuban refugees began arriving on U.S. shores in 1959. many Americans had concerns similar to those being expressed in 1980. There were worries about the ability of the American economy to absorb the newcomers. and about their taking jobs away from native Americans. General concerns existed about how they would adapt. and about how they would affect the general tenor of life in these areas where they congregated.
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