Marco Rubio was born in Miami
to Cuban immigrants. His grandfather, Pedro Victor Garcia, fled Cuba in 1962.
Despite lacking the credentials to legally immigrate to the United States,
Garcia was eventually granted permission to stay as a parolee. Rubio considered
his grandfather his “closest boyhood friend” whose respect he “craves” to this
day. Rubio’s advocacy for a stricter refugee vetting process, which will
prevent people like his grandfather and aunts from entering the United States,
probably does not help him in this regard.
In 1999, Rubio was elected to
the Florida House of Representatives and became Speaker of the House seven
years later. In 2010, Rubio won Mel Martinez’s seat in the US Senate. His unexpected victory is largely credited to the support that he received from the Tea Party. In 2015, Rubio announced his presidential run. He suspended his presidential campaign in 2016, after losing the Florida primary to Donald Trump. He was re-elected to the US Senate later that year.
Senator Rubio primarily sponsors bills regarding International Affairs, and plays an active role on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He advocates for interventionist policy, believing that the
United States should increase its involvement in the fight against totalitarianism. A firm opponent of the Iran nuclear deal, Rubio has suggested the possibility military intervention to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He considers
President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria to be a catastrophic mistake. In 2019, Rubio introduced anti-BDS legislation to prevent American corporations that boycotted Israel or Israel-owned corporations from obtaining government licenses. The bill was criticized for violating the First Amendment, and did not pass.
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