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LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART (R) District 21 (Southeast--part of Dade County; Hialeah...
...that must be avoided this time around: another 125,000 new Florida residents courtesy of Fidel Castro. Rodriguez's associations are more personal. He was eight when soldiers came to his family's door in the town of El Gabriel and told them to clear out. An aunt in Hialeah, accepting Fidel's open invitation, had sent a boat for her relatives. Rodriguez remembers his father, a photographer, ceding their home and possessions to the state. The family then spent a tense, hungry week at a quickly erected processing center. On board Nature Boy, in addition to 27 Rodriguez...
Seven out of 10 residents of Hialeah, Fla., are foreign-born. Other cities where more than half the population is foreign-born...
...Court's begrudging and dismissive attitude towards the importance of religion may prevent the Hialeah ordinance from being overturned. On the other hand, it's fairly obvious that the ordinance had Santeria specifically in mind, so perhaps the Court will recognize that this is a case of discrimination...
...Compelling state interest," then, is an excuse the Court should not accept from Hialeah's government. But the Court recently loosened the restraints on governmental interference with religion in Employment Division of Oregon v. Smith (1990), deciding that the state's interest didn't have to be so compelling after all. All the local government has to prove is that the law was a neutral decision not aimed at religion. If it happens to make it impossible for someone to practice his religion, that's just too bad. Clearly, the spectre of "no establishment of religion" has scared judges away...