Some of the things I found interesting in this chapter were:
Break down of incomes of Hispanics. Cubans median income was $27,290, Mexicans $19,970 and Puerto Ricans were at $15,190. I was surprised because the numbers are so far apart from each other. Since there are not very many Cubans or Puerto Ricans in this area, its hard to see what kinds of jobs they hold that are so different.
Half of the one million Cubans that were in the United States were all in Dade County in Florida. In 1980, the population of Dade County was 1.6 million.
From 1966 to 1976, more that a million Dominicans entered the US, and just over 15 thousand applied for amnesty (1986).
The president of El Salvador asked the US not to deport Salvadorans because the money they were sending back to their country was more important than American foreign aid.
Less Nicaraguans have left their country than any other in Central American and they are the only ones with a Marxist government. (most from Guatemala and El Salvador.)
US government has put pressure on the Soviet government to let its people go.
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