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Byron Donalds: “The Cuban people have been starving. They have no liberty…”

Featuring: Byron Donalds, Republican | U.S. House, Florida, District 19

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Senator Rick Scott and Members of Florida Delegation React to Raul Castro Indictment

Published | Video Starts at 14:24

They would go and they would fly and pick people up to get them the aid that they needed. Because the Castros have been so disgusting and, and had been so tyrannical that The Cuban people have been starving. They have no liberty, they have no rights. They have no freedom. And people were swimming across the Florida Strait and the brothers to the rescue were going out on their own to help people get to our shores to escape tyranny. (14:24–14:29)

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Asserts that Cuban people lack basic rights and freedoms and are suffering from starvation.

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