Those exiles, he said, were a part of “the larger story of the American miracle”.īefore an appreciative audience of more than a thousand supporters, campaign workers and media inside the tower, plus thousands more watching on a giant screen outside and a largely approving political class beyond that, Rubio declared that the United States was still the same land of opportunity the migrants had discovered it to be. Attacking the policies of Barack Obama’s administration, in which Clinton served as secretary of state, Rubio said the time had come to look ahead with the same determination once shown by the waves of Cuban immigrants trying to build a new life in an unfamiliar country.
