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Article: Narrowing the gateway to the Americas: South Florida's open door to Latin America has been key to the region's development. New immigration policies and proposals threaten to close it.(Chief Executive Opinion)
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- South Florida CEO
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- July 1, 2004
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With the acuity of a hawk, South Florida visionaries have for decades looked at the Americas and seen all the way to the Southern Cone of Latin America. They have envisioned a single America with Miami as its gateway: a city providing a base of stability, safety, entrepreneurship, and innovation for an entire region.
But suddenly, in the aftermath of Sept. 11, the hawk's far-sighted vision for Miami was replaced by the myopia of a charging bull. Instead of the clear, broad vistas admired by the hawk, the bull sees only what is in front of it and is indifferent to that against which it charges.
These developments threaten the dynamic that has made Miami ...