Here’s the thing about Marco Rubio: he’s the son of Cuban immigrants, represents the state with the fourth-largest immigrant population in America, constantly bills himself and his background as the embodiment of the American Dream…and yet he seems to have much less sympathy for immigrants who have stories much like his.
He’s gotten into trouble before for this juxtaposition, when it was revealed that Rubio’s parents were not political refugees (as he often claims), but economic migrants. Now another doozy is coming out in Manuel Roig-Franzia’s biography of the Senator, “The Rise of Marco Rubio.”
