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Marco Rubio: “The US has experienced mass migration from Cuba in the past…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat

Published | Video Starts at 34:00

It's just not even an economy. It's total dysfunction. That's their fault. As far as spillover effect, they're not more concerned than we are. We're 90 miles away. And The US has experienced mass migration from Cuba in the past, certainly in the early 90s with the rafter crisis. But as recently as 2021 and 2022, we were having people show up in the Florida Keys and stranded in the Bahamas. So we don't want to see it either. (34:00–34:07)

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Asserts that the US experienced mass migration from Cuba during the early 90s rafter crisis.

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