But a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than two-and-a-halfyears before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Year’s Day 1959.

Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show - The Washington Post

I don’t think that this will matter to Rubio’s core constituency: they are more pre-occupied with sloganeering and living in myths that make them comfortable than they are processing cognitive dissonance created by minutia like fact.

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