"I am the son of an immigrant who came from Cuba with nothing, came here legally," Cruz
Even this I have come to doubt after doing a lot of reading on this topic, though I have not verified all of the alleged facts I have come into contact with. Rafael Cruz, after claiming he was tortured every 4 hours by Batista, beaten "half to death" or to the point where his body went numb, and then released... not to the doctor, but to his father, claims he came to America with no cash and was working full time while going to school full time, and that he got a social security card within 48 hours by just walking in and getting it.
Not only does it not work like that, but his type of student visa wouldn't have been eligible for a social security card anyway, nor were they, according to law at that time (at least according to the articles I've been reading-- I personally have NOT verified the law at that point), allowed to work during their first year of schooling.
This means either Rafael was actually an illegal alien, OR he was violating immigration law, OR he is just lying to make his story look better.
I will worry about that story as soon as Trump starts crediting all his ghost writers.
/johnny
Interesting back story. Dunno how he got into the US, with his known anti Batista support and such. The media will go deeper into this background more so than they have ever with Obama. And it will be very, very interesting.