just last week, president trump spoke at a roundtable with a cuban immigrant named maximo alvarez. escaped communist cuba at 13. he was one of the last kids to flee with a group of nuns is -- whose convent had been taken over by the communist dictator that bernie sanders has praised in the past. maximo had a stark warning for our country at that forum. he said, "what is happening in our backyard today i experienced as an 11-year-old." maximo went on to say, "i remember vividly all of the promises castro gave, i remember the promises we hear today about free education, free health care, free land." then he recalled what his father told him about the glory of being an american. maximo said his father told him, "don't lose that place, because if you lose that place, you will have no place to go." america is a beacon of hope and freedom for all in the world. [applause] maximo's admonition remind us of another republican president who famously reminded us that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we don't pass it onto our children in the bloodstream, it must b