Posted on 11/12/2015 8:52:20 AM PST by jimbo123
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida said Thursday that while some illegal immigrants will have to be deported, it's unrealistic to think it can happen for all of the approximately 11 million in the United States.
Mr. Rubio was asked if he would accept or denounce 2016 GOP presidential rival Donald Trump's tough deportation plan, and the Florida senator said both sides have valid points to make.
"We are going to have to deport some people - otherwise, if you're not going to enforce your laws, what's the point of having those laws?" Mr. Rubio said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "Criminals are going to be deported. People that haven't been here very long are going to be deported. People overstaying visas are going to be deported - that's how you enforce immigration laws.
"The flip side of it is I do not believe you can round up and deport 11 million, especially people that have been here 15 years, have not otherwise violated the laws, can pass background checks and so forth," he continued.
Host Bill Hemmer said it sounded a little like Mr. Rubio was "trying to ride the middle line here."
"It's not about middle line - it's reality," Mr. Rubio said. "Yes, people will have to be deported - there's no doubt about it
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My father was an illegal immigrant around 1950. He was originally from the Netherlands and wanted to get the heck out of Europe. He was educated at the University of Leiden having passed the intensive training in medical instrument making which is a little higher than tool and die maker. He went to Vancouver, Canada got a seasonal job with Alcan working in Kitimat, Canada. I have his world record medal for building what a that time was the worlds largest tunnel, dam, smelter project. His responsibility was to keep all those machines running. He was important enough to have his own cabin as opposed to staying in the dorm. Business shut down during the winter months.
http://www.kitimatmuseum.ca/node/37
My father wanted to come to the States so bad he grew impatient. He and his brother crossed the Canadian/US border with their new car and headed to the San Fransisco area. He got a job with the defense industry making missile triggers. They lived in Berkly. After a few months there was a knock on the door midday. My uncle was unemployed. He recognized the INS officers before opening the door, he headed out the back door, took the car and drove back to the Canadian border.
Later that day my father came home and was welcomed by two INS officers in his living room. He was arrested and put in jail for one night. In the morning, he was made an offer that he could not refuse. He was offered the opportunity to voluntarily go back to Canada and get back into line to come to the US OR he could refuse to go back, get deported and never ever come to the US. He chose the former. He finally came to Chicago, the Tool and Die Capitol of the world, in 1956 with his green card.
In short, Trump is right, Rubio, Jeb and all the others are full of shit. FYI, the way they located my father, when he crossed the border the border guards took down his license plate number. When the car did not return they tracked my dad down. All this was done without computers. This Fedzilla no can do attitude is insulting to us law abiding Americans.
Hey Marco - what other laws are you going to single handedly abolish because donors from American Sugar want “slavery-lite” illegals working the fields?
Go away Marco... if you’re helpless in the face of illegals you’ll be helpless in the face of ISIS or Putin.
I had heard 20 million...”
I would suspect that by now it is closer to 30 or 40 million.
Maybe he's worried Trump will deport him.
More specifically, regardless of PC, pro-welfare interpretations of the General Welfare Clause (1.8.1), since the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for welfare purposes, as a taxpayer I object to helping to pay for unconstitutional federal welfare for anybody, especially illegal immigrants, law-abiding or the criminal type.
Sen. Rubio is another good example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.
Cut off the free money and watch them scatter like cockroaches.
In this country it’s unrealistic to prove your identity before you vote for president.
Enters country illegally = Criminal. Solved.
You wouldn’t have to. When Eisenhower did his deportation, most left voluntarily (self-deported.) The same thign would happen this time.
Cut off their benefits, increase the penalties for employing them (stiffer fines AND prison time), and they’ll be gone before you can say “Marco Rubio.”
Marco .......would be helpless in the face of Hillary Clintoon
Um, hey Marco...you don’t have to deport 11M people, you just start deporting (and/or prosecuting) them, and millions will leave on their own.
But it’s not unrealistic to reward criminals with Citizenship and taxpayer money, eh, Marco? I tell you another thing that is highly unrealistic Marco...........my ever voting for you!
Even if we just deport 5 million, that’s better than nothing.
I thought Marco would have been briefed on Obama’s NSA by now.
Cruz and Trump need to hammer the Rube on his amnesty support the next debate, make him own it. The Rube talks about stopping immigration first but his own Rube Goldberg scheme from the gang of 8, showed that was for show only as it has been every time the cheap labor express tries their run at amnesty.
Cut off all fed money to sancuary cities.
Actually we don’t have to deport, just make the hiring of an illegal a felony and adopt Mexicos way of how they deal with illegals: 1st offense you do a year in jail. 2nd offense you do 10 years.
Unrealistic to “eliminate ‘racism’” too . . .but why aren’t you saying that, Marco?
I agree completely.
A few years back it became widely known that remittances from illegals was Mexicos largest cash source. I can’t imagine thats changed since.
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