So, Rafael Cruz, Ted Cruz's dad, fought on the side of
Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution and then
bribed an official in the anti-Communist Batista
government---a U. S. ally in 1957---in order to get
an exit permit so that he could come to the United
States on a four-year student visa and study at the
University of Texas. While at the University, Rafael
met and married Eleanor Darragh, a woman from
Delaware of Italian and Irish descent. After graduation,
Rafael and Eleanor moved to Alberta, Canada,
where he worked in the oil business and became a
Canadian citizen. (Rafael didn't become an American
citizen until 2005, 48 years after he emigrated from Cuba.)
During their years as Canadian residents, Rafael
and Eleanor became the parents of now-Senator Ted
Cruz in 1970 and, four years later, were granted
political asylum in the U. S. and moved back to Texas.
How ironic, then, that the junior Senator from
the Lone Star State is such an ardent opponent
of a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
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In his youth Ted was very impressed by the Christmas tale of the Cabron in the Manger.
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