Controversy was unleashed in the US by a video

revealed a few days ago where a

citizen cannot be served in a

fast food restaurant because

no one understands English,

a town

located north of Miami where more than

90% speak Spanish was put on the map of the country by law and where only 6%

speak English at home, as it is the

most Latino place in the United States,

Javier Olivares [Music] tells us from there,

until a few days ago in the US, little was

known about Hayali, the accepted most

populous city in Florida with Just over

230,000 inhabitants and a Latino population

close to 96% according to the last census, a

city just 15 minutes away from the

paradisiacal white sand beaches of

Miami Beach, a city without palm trees

everywhere, without large

shopping centers, but with the

largest Spanish-speaking population. in the

southeast of the country

but it was a video shared by

alexander and montgomery in which

an employee of this taco bell is seen who

was later fired lost refusing to

attend to her because no one spoke English in

the place the sequence of just over

three minutes was the one that took this

city out of anonymity and put it in the

center of international news

half an hour later languages and snacks on

websites but as is the The only city in the

US where only Spanish is needed

to live, work or move around, to the

point of being one of the least

diverse cities in the US by ethnic origin and

where most of its

residents are fervent supporters

of the Republican Party, President

Donald trump

without other cities in the usa Hispanics

are in small groups here they are the

center of everything so it is not surprising that

in this city English is hardly

spoken only 64 percent of the

population claims to use this language

at home the percentage is It shoots up to 93.1

percent when it comes to speaking

Spanish, even almost two-thirds

of Hi Alia residents admit they don't

speak any English. My perc The eption is

that if it is not necessary to speak

absolutely nothing English

[Music] well, it

is located northeast of Miami its

commercial and industrial structure makes

it the seventh city with the highest

income for the state

its population is mostly Cuban,

which is from the In the 1960s, they arrived

en masse after the triumph of the Castroite revolution. In the

same way, in the

following years, more and more islanders continued to

arrive, encouraged by the

economic boom and the various packages of

state benefits for exiled Cubans,

which were recently

eliminated by Barack Obama in the 1960s.

last days of his mandate

but today almost 60 years later without the

benefits and with a

more restrictive immigration policy jaialdia continues to be the

place for thousands of Hispanics who do not speak

English

even better than in their countries

[Music]

is the case of Chilean george rivers who

has been living in the usa for 26 years and assures

that here the opportunities for

older people are unique, he treats us It's very good

here and he has a job until he

dies here he doesn't have a job but as in

Chile he's 40 years old, instead

you don't have to go, he's 80 or 90 years old and he

's working and another 87-

year-old colleague is working but he's not

work alone, which attracts thousands to live in

jaialdia, average

housing taxes are among the lowest in the

country, here a two-

bedroom, two-bathroom property pays around

900 51,000 pesos a year in contributions, a

quarter of which could paying for a

relatively similar property in miami beach for

the same concept is the heat the

commerce the many

job opportunities in the city leave the league already those

that attract thousands of tourists

every year specifically

immigrants who during 2017

exceeded 25 thousand According to figures from

this same city, I still have a percent

of them Cuban,

but there are Latinos from everywhere,

Spanish is spoken a lot, that is the truth, and

among so many Latinos, a group of

Chilean investors led by the

businessman and former sports leader

Miguel Nazur opted for a passion

well known to all and today they own

part of the property of the Miami United

FCC professional soccer team that

is based in the city of Jabaliya and

in which its players are

mostly of Hispanic origin, the

investment group sees the opportunity for

hai alia to be an alternative to be able to

develop this and the truth is that the

commune has welcomed the miami fcc very well

and this is just in the

development project in the idea of the maya

millionaire of fcc is to continue growing,

apart from participating in the leagues

in which the starting team participates,

there is also the project to create the

academy create soccer schools

so that the children of the

jaialdia community can come to practice

this sport prosperous business that

works better and better for these

national investors in a city

that generated controversy and interest in a

country

where immigration is getting stronger in a

city where Spanish is the law and

Latinos rule more than

anywhere else in the US

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[Music]