[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“Cuba at the time of his parent’s birth, had a protectorate status of the US from the Spanish/American war.”

If that isn’t a strech!!!!!

[mnehring]

If that isn’t a strech!!!!!

Not really. Rubio's parents were born in 1927 and 1931 in Cuba, however Cuba during that era, was a US Protectorate from 1901-1934 under the Platt Amendment.

http://www.americanforeignrelations.com/O-W/Protectorates-and-Spheres-of-Influence-U-s-protectorates-prior-to-world-war-ii.html#b#ixzz1iupaAopY

It may not be a 'bingo there is the answer' but it does give a different legal foothold.