Sen. Marco Rubio scolds Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign for calling Mitt Romney anti-immigrant

The Miami Herald ^ | 1/25/2012 | MARC CAPUTO

[fabian]

wrong...Newt’s position is reasonable in that people who have been here for over 20 years can stay...not Romney’s , right? That is not amnesty for the huge majority of job stealing illegals.

[Tennessee Nana]

Newt’s ad criticized Romney *for being anti-immigrant*—
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Well he is...

anyone supporting the illegal aliens is anti-immigrant...

you cant have it both ways...

Either you support immigration and think it good and necessary...rule of law..

or you think its OK for illegal aliens to break our sovereign laws by just waltsing in here and staying and taking jobs away from Americans and getting freebies that Americans cant get..

and screaming and demanding so called “rights” that immigrants already have...

words are inportant

meanings are important

rhetoric is important...

an immigrant is someone who comes to the US legally with correct papers etc

an illegal alien is someone who sneaks in and is not here legally

to be PRO-immigrant or PRO-immigration you must support the people who immigrated here

AKA enteredd LEGALLY

there are no “immigrants” who came any other way but LEGALLY

someone from another country is an ALIEN

someone who enterd here LEGALLY either has a temporary visa

and is to leave the country again by the day it expires

commonly called a VISITOR and he cannot work during the time he is here..

or he has a temporary visa to cover the time until he or she receives receives an Alien Registration Card AKA a Green Card (usually within 90 days)

and again he may not work until he receives his “green card”

The Alien Registration Card has no expiration date..

With it the immigrant can work and come and go around the US and also leave and come back as long as he is not out of the US more than 1 year...

When the immigrant becomes an American citizen the green card is surrendered and the number from it goes at the right top corner on the naturalization document..

That person is an immigrant..

all persons entering the US “without documentation” are illegal aliens..

so you have immigrants

and you have illegal aliens

Romney has supported illegal aliens for years

Romney is anti-immigration...

[Tennessee Nana]

I agree with Rubio that being in favor of legal immigration but in favor of deporting illegal aliens does not make one “anti-immigrant”; don’t you?
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isnt that what I said ???

thats the PRO-immigration stance...

[jboot]

I had a great deal of respect for Rubio. I was dissapointed that he didn't throw his hat in the ring for POTUS this year. I did not expect him to endorse Newt, at least not before the FL primary, and possibly not even afterwards. That would have been a pity, but I would have understood it.

What I did not expect-not even a little-was for Rubio to hop into the tank with Romney and toss out a bunch of anti-Newt talking points for the MSM to gleefully regurgitate. Does that make him a traitor? That depends on the chosen context. Did he betray the Republicans? Nah, they don't stand for anything strongly enough. They are the Episcopal Church of politics. You can stand for almost anything and still stand with them. But if you ask if Rubio (and all the other establishment MittBots) has betrayed the Tea Party, well then, the question gets harder to ignore. Romney sure as heck isn't going to want to fight under our banner or die on our hill. But Newt just might.

As for me, Rubio is now on long-term double-secret probation. And that is also too bad. But it is what it is.

[nbenyo]

It shows what a hypocrite Gingrich is. He pretends to be tough on illegal immigration in front of English speaking conservative audiences. Then he runs pro-illegal ads on Spanish spreaking radio.

BTW he is now pulling the ads because he cannot defend them.

[Leep]

It would be crass for Rubio to turn around less than two years later and call Romney a RINO

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I get that part.
I think he could have worded it different.
Romney is not a conservative. There is some question whether he is actually a republican.
I have heard Romney make excuses for his liberal policies.
How as governor he didn’t have a lot of choice but to give in.
I have never heard him strongly denounce many of them?

[Leep]

I have never heard him strongly denounce many of them?
His liberal stances that is.

[ansel12]

It would be crass for Rubio to turn around less than two years later and call Romney a RINO and endorse one of his opponents (which is why I never criticized Sarah Palin for endorsing McCain in 2010)

You can't compare an endorsement to the importance of a Presidential ticket not turning on itself, Rubio did not need to endorse Romney and if he were conservative, he would not have.

Rubio has firmly placed himself in the anti-conservative camp.

[ngat]

No, it does not. It simply shows that he tried to take the high road at the beginning of his campaign, his opponent showed him in December that this campaign would be a say-anything campaign, or Gingrich would be wasting his time. So you need to quit being such a goody two-shoes about it.

[Leep]

Mark Levin just said the same thing about Rubio calling Romney a conservative. He said, “Someone explain to me what part of RomneyCare is conservative.”