• Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    Little Marco: 🦗🦗🦗

    Regular deportation flights to Cuba began in January 2017, under President Barack Obama, paused during the coronavirus pandemic and restarted in 2023.

    January 2017? That’s an odd thing to do with your last 20 days in office…

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    Over the summer, Mr. Rubio said in a video commemorating huge anti-Communist protests in 2021 that many Cubans had found it “easier” to “abandon” the island than stay and fight the regime.

    That seems kind of ironic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Rubio

    Rubio asserted that his parents intended to return to Cuba in the 1960s.[5] He added that his mother took his two elder siblings back to Cuba in 1961 with the intention of living there permanently (his father remained behind in Miami “wrapping up the family’s matters”), but the nation’s move toward communism caused the family to change its plans.[5] Rubio said that the “essence of my family story is why they came to America in the first place and why they had to stay”.[14]