He did happen to be born in Cuba; they migrated in the 1960s and he grew up in Beverly Hills.
It sounds like he's no more Hispanic/Cuban American than my naturalized white friend from South Africa can call himself an African-American. But the rules of woke vary depending on the object discussed. He's with the Dems so he will be designated whatever they need him to be for their identity politics. Sad.
You’re both correct and I am aware of his background.
To call him “hispanic” is a joke of course; he’s a mixture of Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish people, and his mother is likely a descendant of the Khazarian Jews of the 10th century North of Anatolia.
But Sephardim would claim they are “hispanic” as they were in Spain from about the 1st century onward until the expulsion under Ferdinand and Isabella. Maybe his father goes back to that, and felt like Havana could be home.
But I really doubt it; going to Havana was a way to get to the US without being able to get in after the 1924 immigration act, which to them was the Most Evilest Act Ever....because it kept them out mostly.
So yeah...he’s not hispanic except possibly in a distant sense. But then my genetics tell me that I have relatives in Spain, who likely were left behind 6000 years ago when my ancestors migrated North into Northern Europe as the glaciers receded. Doesn’t make me “Spanish” or “hispanic”, although I share a lot more genetics with them then this guy probably does.
He’s a charlatan, a rich European Jewish guy who landed in the Joo Ess of Ey as Castro the Caudillo was stealing the land of business people like his family, Spaniard or not. He’s a Cuban by the accident of the geography of his birth.
And to call him an “American”, and give him the keys to the security of the United States? Insane. He has only the most tenuous connection to this nation, and would be gone tomorrow morning if another offer was better. If it looks like the Chinese Communists are going to win the game, he’ll be camping in downtown Beijing and wearing bobby pins to slant his eyes.
But that’s the way he and his buddies conceive of the US. To them, there are no “Americans”. It’s just a parking lot to them: a temporary place to operate from. Move on when you have to, work out the next grift.
It’s the Alien Occupation Government. And he’s in charge of flooding the country with more aliens so they can snuff out the Americans in their own land.
Good thing we let his charming little family in back in 1960, huh? I was one state away in Arizona, growing up in the heat...but he gets to live in Beautiful Bel Air, I guess to assuage his pain of leaving Cooba. And then they hand over the security of the country to him, for what reason....no one can tell us. He takes the Oath with his fingers crossed, and dreams of a day when the people who let him in are pounded into submission at the hands of the Third World rabble.
Great argument to never let a single damn “refugee” in ever again.