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store windows in the area around the park. Special police patrol on
foot, horseback, and by car to keep order. Currently, there is a
controversy about whether to close the park, fence it in, or limit its
use to registered, card-carrying citizens. But the controversy is
bigger than the park. It is a controversy between the already
established Cuban-American merchants and businessmen and angry, young
1980 Cubans who arrived with high expectations and found little to
accommodate beliefs that the U.S. was a land of plenty. The polari
zation of the community cannot be resolved with regulations and
identification cards (Dunlop, 1982; Martinez, 1982c). This hostile
community reaction is not so different from that experienced by
various waves of European immigrants who settled in the Northeast
at the beginning of the century (Gonzalez & McCoy, 1980).
Balmaseda (1981) quotes Mariel entrant Martinez as saying, "Many
refugees refuse to say they arrived by Mariel. They are wrong that
way. They are perpetuating the bad image of the Marielito. If the
good ones admit they are Marieli tos, maybe the stigma will go away"
(p. 6g).
The 1980 Cubans seem to have received more than their share of
controversy, as exemplified by the confrontation between movie pro
ducers and elements of the Cuban-American community over the remaking
of an old A1 Capone movie, "Scarface," now a story about a 1980 refugee-
turned dope smuggler and gangster. Not confined to the local scene,
the conflict expanded past the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce to
the office of the Governor. In spite of attempts to smooth over
differences, articles opposing the movie continued to appear in a