Reply #3: Florida certainly has been the sanctuary state for Cuban aliens. Yes, I know that they are granted

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legal status upon arrival. My question to Mr. McCollum is why wouldn't you be pressing the federal government to do the same for other Latinos?

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1047411420080410
Even more Cubans try to reach the United States through Mexico. Last year, 11,486 undocumented Cubans arrived at U.S. Southwest Customs and Border Patrol land ports. So far this fiscal year, which began on October 1, some 5,500 have done so.

To avoid a repeat of the 1994 mass exodus, when 35,000 Cubans headed out to sea on fishing boats, rafts and inner tubes, the U.S and Cuban governments signed migration accords under which the United States grants 20,000 visas a year to Cubans to ensure legal, orderly and safe emigration.