Ungrateful Immigrants

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.