The series was praised as being very true-to-life and accurately, if humorously, portraying the life and culture of Miami's Cuban-American population.
The mayor has long been popular with the city's Cuban-American population, having snubbed Fidel Castro during his 1995 visit to the city.
Miami's Cuban community has grown to nearly 700,000, more than two-thirds of the nation's Cuban-American population of one million.
So far the application by the Miami Archdiocese, which has a large Cuban-American population.
Even so, it keeps its large black and Cuban-American population, as well as the Conchs, white fishermen and ship workers who have lived on the island for generations.
He represents Union City - of which he used to be mayor - with a Cuban-American population second only to Miami's.
And along with it, Hispanics' political influence should grow, too, and not just in Miami, which has a politically powerful, well-established Cuban-American population.
Stricter standards for Cubans are hardly in the cards, for they would quickly face stiff resistance from the large and influential Cuban-American population.
New Jersey's Cuban-American population of 87,000 is one of the largest in the United States outside Florida.
In the United States, and particularly in the state of Florida, which has a high Cuban-American population, Castro has been viewed with "passion and hatred".