a cuban immigrant dad who fled oppression and came to america seeking freedom i'm a husband to my best friend heidi was here tonight i'm

of my Cuban heritage I'm proud of my father's journey from oppression to freedom I'm proud of my Italian

my story is like that of so many other American families I'm the son of an immigrant father who fled oppression in Cuba and

I think that's exactly right that when you have people that fled oppression and came here seeking freedom you

the ones crazy enough to risk everything seek freedom and opportunity our ancestors fled oppression by and large arraigned here seeking freedom as a result in

against bigotry and and racial oppression on the side of the Cuban immigrant bigotry fundamentally wrong and

has a drought and so that's why i made sure i brought my own water service i'm ted cruz i'm the son of an irish italian mom and

dad was imprisoned and tortured in Cuba he fled with nothing coming to America seeking freedom he washed dishes the

he comes from a family fighters born of oppression and nurtured and freedom tortured and imprisoned by Cuban dictator Ted

legal immigrants are Pete my dad who in nineteen fifty seven fled kill they came on a student visa came

an immigrant who was tortured and imprisoned in Cuba who fled here as a teenager with nothing with

contrary to rule of law and it's unfair to the millions of legal immigrants who waited in in line and came here legally and

the child of an immigrant who had fled oppression it if there was an urgency to it and that urgency never been greater than right now after

an immigrant who was tortured and imprisoned in Cuba who fled here as a teenager with nothing with

face from the perspective of my dad fifty seven years ago my dad fled Cuba he'd been in prison he'd been tortured been beaten almost to death in a Cuban jail and

religious and we came to seek out a new land where every man and seek out and worship the