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Marco Rubio: “So what they face in Puerto Rico today is similar to what we saw in south Florida in the 1980s in terms of a transit…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2011
So what they face in Puerto Rico today is similar to what we saw in south Florida in the 1980s in terms of a transit point, an entry point from the Caribbean on.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio compares Puerto Rico's drug trafficking issues to those in 1980s south Florida.

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