Ada Ferrer

I think what many people don't think about when they think about Cuban Americans is how diverse the community is, not politically necessarily, but in terms of when they arrive.

So most Cuban Americans, most Cuban-born people in Miami—

arrived in the very recent past.

That means that they grew up

In a communist society, they went to schools, they recited poems about Che Guevara, or their parents did.

They came out of that system.

And this ongoing developing crisis over the, you know, in some ways over 30 years, but very, very in an accelerated manner over the last five or six years.

What that means is that the people who are

eager, many of the people who are eager for that kind of action from Trump and Rubio aren't these old Cuban Americans who lost property 60 years ago.

It's people who had, you know, never had much property to be taken.

And that also means that that distinction that's traditionally drawn between Cubans on the island and Cubans here is not quite as meaningful as it was decades ago.

I mean, you're right.

The Cuban Adjustment Act, which had afforded Cubans advantages that nobody else had.

It's still the law, technically, but it almost doesn't matter, right?

Because Trump is doing things that he's acting as if the law didn't exist.

There are Cubans languishing in places like...

alligator alphabet trials, including a cousin of mine.

There are people who came in under Biden's humanitarian parole program.

And those people, you know, all received self-deportation letters.

And I think what was—I know, actually, that what was happening before the invasion in Venezuela was that Trump was losing support over that.