Posted on 02/08/2016 8:30:52 AM PST by conservativejoy
There is a very good reason that so many conservatives don't trust Marco Rubio. Some would have you believe it was youthful naivete and inexperience that allowed him to be compromised by the Gang of Eight. I don't think so. I think he was offered money and power and immediately caved. Donald Trump's Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, is telling a story about Marco Rubio and how he treated an ICE officer during the Gang of Eight's manipulations and it is revealing. Not in a good way either. Miller was the communications director for Sen. Jeff Sessions, so he was there and knows how it went down. Rubio's treatment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union president Chris Crane, who represents thousands of ICE officers, was simply disgraceful. He was at a meeting where Schumer was speaking with Rubio at his side and Crane wanted to ask a question. He repeatedly asked to be recognized and Schumer wouldn't do so. He eventually had Crane, an ICE agent and a Marine, removed from the meeting. Rubio stood there, stone faced and did nothing. Nothing except break every promise he had made to Crane and America about border security and Amnesty.
From Breitbart:
On today's program of Breitbart News Daily, Donald Trump's Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, shared his never-before publicly discussed insights into Sen. Marco Rubio's duplicitous conduct during his push to get the Gang of Eight bill through the Senate.
At that time, Miller served as the communications director for the man who organized opposition to the bill, Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions. Miller recalled how throughout the Gang of Eight push, Sen. Rubio "directly deceived" immigration law enforcement and the American people.
Miller recounted one story in particular about Rubio's treatment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) union president Chris Crane, who represents thousands of ICE officers. At the time, Crane slammed Rubio for having “directly misled law enforcement." In his Congressional testimony, Crane said, "Never before have I seen such contempt for law enforcement officers as what I've seen from the Gang of Eight."
For the first time ever, Stephen Miller explained exactly what Rubio did to Chris Crane and how he had deceived the nation's ICE officers.
Before that infamous meeting, Crane secured a meeting with Rubio after numerous attempts. He wanted to bring a rep from Sessions' office who knew the legalities of the situation for backup, but Rubio wouldn't allow it. Rubio assured Crane that illegal aliens would not be legalized and would not get welfare and food stamps. He promised him resources for the 7,000 ICE agents Crane represented. Rubio lied and broke every one of those promises. He schmoozed with La Raza, the Chamber of Commerce, Barack Obama and every pro-immigration group out there. He still refers to a 'pathway to citizenship'. That's Amnesty. Rubio is adept in covering up what he really believes and what he really intends. He is an establishment shill. The only two who aren't are Trump and Cruz. So, you can see why I find the polls suddenly showing Rubio surging as suspect. You couldn't trust Rubio then, you can't trust him now.
Six paragraphs in, I have no idea what the writer is talking about.
Jeez.
High School English Composition: FAIL.
Watch out, Rubio, The don is coming after you.
With a lot more substance than his attacks on Cruz.
Thank you. I thought it was just me. You should send your post to the author, it is richly deserved.
It did not take long for the luster to wear off of Rubio, for me anyway. He immediately came across as someone who could not be trusted.
Where is the bombshell story about Ted Cruz that Breitbart is allegedly sitting on?
Or was it just clickbait- like the Blaze?
“Donald Trump’s Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, is telling...”
Nothing after that should be believed.
Never give more knives to backstabbers
Ditto.
It actually takes a lot of smarts to write that incoherently. I was blaming myself for being dense..
"The Gang of Eight" disqualified him, and, in addition, he represents the Republican Establishment who gave us Boehner, McConnell, RINO Ryan, and the rest of the Double-Crossers.
But even if he were not a RINO, he's not up to the job. In times as dangerous and crucial as these, we need a man of the stature of Donald Trump. We need intelligence, aggressiveness, decisiveness. We need a Fighter. We need someone with clarity, who understands strategy. We need someone who can--AND WILL--defeat America's enemies abroad and--of even greater importance--her domestic enemies.
We need someone who understands the Decadence of Western Civilization, who is himself ascendant, who will reverse it, and who will restore America to ascendancy.
We don't need a milquetoast like Rubio.
We need Trump. And we're gonna get him!
Good to see I'm not the only one.
Is anyone surprised by this?
Chris Crane is the head of the ICE Union and has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration's for tying the hands of ICE officers in enforcing the law.
ICE Union employees: ICE Director won't let us enforce U.S. immigration laws
On June 11, 2010, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council and its constituent local representatives from around the nation, acting on behalf of approximately 7,000 ICE officers and employees from the ICE Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), cast a unanimous "Vote of No Confidence" in the Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, and the Assistant Director of the ICE Office of Detention Policy and Planning, (ODPP), Phyllis Coven.
While ICE reports internally that more than 90 percent of ICE detainees are first encountered in jails after they are arrested by local police for criminal charges, ICE senior leadership misrepresents this information publicly in order to portray ICE detainees as being non-criminal in nature to support the Administration’s position on amnesty and relaxed security at ICE detention facilities.
The majority of ICE ERO Officers are prohibited from making street arrests or enforcing United States immigration laws outside of the institutional (jail) setting. This has effectively created “amnesty through policy†for anyone illegally in the United States who has not been arrested by another agency for a criminal violation.
The fact that Rubio tacitly allowed Schumer to oust Crane and even to call on him, shows that Rubio wanted to stifle all debate on the Gang of 8 bill. He didn't want any facts that could stand in the way of passing the bill, which was passed by the Senate 68-32 with 14 Reps including Rubio voting for it.
As someone who has worked 36 years for the federal government, it is almost unheard of for a group like the ICE agent union to unanimously issue a vote of no confidence against a sitting federal official, i/e. their boss.
And what about tabloid stories of mistress who is a lobbiest? How many favors did she get?
I believe him completely. As someone who works for a grassroots immigration group that lobbies on the Hill, I am intimately familiar with the dirty tactics used by the Gang of 8 bill to stifle dissent.
Are you a Rubio supporter?
I would like to know more about Rubio's donors and staff. I know FOX is involved.
Anyone who would work for Trump’s campaign is a liar. No, I don’t support Rubio at all.
Why not drop the bomb instead of just the shell?
That would seem to hold for most of the Tea Party candidates that went to Washington. They discover immediately that if they go along with the gopes they will be wealthy for life whether or not they ever win another election but if they retain their asserted principles they will be limited to their salaries and whatever they can make on their own initiatives with investment and such. In the campaigns their constituents are the voters in their districts. Once they get to DC their constituents are the lobbyists. The voters have no more influence on them.
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