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Another naive Republican seals his fate:
Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — ‘It is not conditional’
June 10, 2013 | 12:36 pm | Modified: June 10, 2013 at 2:00 pm
In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest statement yet that legalization of the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements.
“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”
In most of his public appeals for the Gang of Eight bill, Rubio has stressed its enforcement provisions, saying that border security must come before immigrants are granted legal permanent resident status. What he has not stressed so much is the fact that the bill would legalize the 11 million almost immediately, after they have passed background checks and paid some sort of fine. That would happen before any new security measures are completed, or even begun.
But on that he was very clear in his Univision appearance. “As for the legalization, the enormous majority of my colleagues have accepted that it has to happen and that it has to begin at the same time we begin the measures for [the border],” Rubio said. “It is not conditional. The legalization is not conditional.”
Here is an English translation of Rubio’s remarks:
http://www.cis.org/kammer/rubio-mccain-reid-talk-strategy-reform-bill
He said he wouldn't support a bill that didn't secure the border first. We sure as hell can't trust Napolitano's discretion to let us know when it's secured.
We cant trust Rubio. He runs hot and cold, and has no sense of the right thing to do. He is a flip-flopper, and that's fatal for a pol.
Rubio 2016They didn't choose a good time to abandon ship though. The old fucks are still in charge.
Another naive Republican seals his fate:
Rubio 2016
I think your underestimating Christie. He's got four more years to keep hugging President Blackenstien, supporting gun control, believing and promoting Global warming to get people to warm to him. People in general don't like taxes so he doesn't really need to abandon ship there so much as turn it just a tad. He could be a danger if he could get to the General Election. Now I think he'd get smashed in the primary but that's another issue.