Did you notice how Rubio and Cruz both related their heartwarming stories of how their fathers both fled oppression and came to this great country? They worked tirelessly to give their children a better future and this great land of opportunity obliged, allowing each to find the kind of success that only America could offer someone of such humble beginnings.
What shameless BS.
How do they relate such a story and remain anti immigration at the same time?
Why don't they want others to share their story of success ?
Says his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover" of Cuba.
—
Marco Rubio on Friday, October 21st, 2011 in a biography on his U.S. Senate website
Sen. Marco Rubio said his parents 'came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover' of Cuba
By
Becky Bowers on Friday, October 21st, 2011 at 6:11 p.m.
A screen grab of Marco Rubio's Senate website.
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio sold his American success story as he stumped across Florida two years ago.
His parents left Havana in 1959, he told a Panhandle audience, in search of a better life.
He told a
Tampa Bay TV station, a
Fox Business host and Sean Hannity on
Fox News that his parents came from Cuba at the end of the 1950s — when dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Fidel Castro's revolution.
"In 1959," he told Fox 13 and Fox Business. "In '58, '59," he told Fox News.
By Oct. 21, 2011, the biography on his
U.S. Senate website still declared his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover."
But
interviews,
documents and
news articles in September and October raised doubts.
PolitiFact Florida wanted to know: Did Rubio's parents come to America "following Fidel Castro's takeover"?
Doubt
An Oct. 19, 2011, story by the
St. Petersburg Times said naturalization records showed Rubio's parents,
Mario and
Oriales, became U.S. residents in May 1956.
At that time, Castro lived in Mexico after a failed 1953 attack on army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Cubans lived under the dictatorship of Batista, who had seized power as he ran for re-election in 1952.
The nation, which enjoyed high literacy, a strong educational system — even the world's fifth-highest number of TVs per capita — found itself ruled by decree.
In May 1956, the Rubio family would fly to the United States. Castro returned to mount his revolution in December. More than two years would pass before Batista fled on Jan. 1, 1959.
Sen. Marco Rubio said his parents came to America following Fidel Castro s takeover of Cuba PolitiFact Florida
Sorry, Carla. Didn't see your post.