Posted on 04/14/2013 5:06:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio dismissed arguments Sunday that the Senate immigration bill offers amnesty for illegal immigrants and said border security is not the only key issue -- amid scrutiny from some fellow conservatives and the union that represents immigration enforcement agents.
Rubio told “Fox News Sunday” that anybody living illegally in the United States and attempting to get a visa would face a long list of qualifications, which includes paying taxes, a fine and an application fee as well as having a job and waiting for at least 10 years.
“That is not amnesty,” said Rubio, a Cuban-American considered a key member of the so-called bipartisan Gang of Eight....
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Step 1 - Secure the borders
Step 2 - Enforce the current law
If business needs more people they can pay slave wages too then offer temp work visas for those people outside the US that want to come and work.
But what a way to go out - putting a bullet in the head of your party and trashing the country forever.
But, but, he’s the great GOP savior!!!
Rubio has consumed the FlavorAid.
The country is circling the drain, what difference dies it make? Unless some states kick off Secession II real soon, we are in the “bread and circuses” phase of the republic’s demise. Enjoy the ride.
If it does these two things:
1: Allow them to remain in the country legally
2: Grants them a path to citizenship
It is amnesty plain and simple! If it looks like a Duck, walks like a Duck and quacks like a Duck,it’s a Duck no matter how many times you call it a Pony! Either Rubio is deluding himself or he thinks were really stupid, either way he seems to be in the wrong party now!
Fun With Words For Dummies.
Rubio speaks with forked tongue.
....clumsily coerced onto the bottom rung of the senile Rino ladder to temporary success and ultimate failure. You showed promise only to succumb to the power and greed known as the American right.
They get to stay. That’s AMNESTY.
If they don't enforce the current law, why give them another low to selectively enforce?
What irritates me the most about Rubio is he's treating conservatives as rubes. NO true small government conservative would agree to legalizing millions of future wards of the state as he is.
Rubio's penalty is a far, far less.
Cities and states have tax amnesties where you just have to obey the law by paying your back taxes immediately and you don't face any further penalties. The equivalent in immigration would be "leave the country and we won't count it against you for further legal immigration attempts". And by parallel to the tax amnesty programs, even that would be amnesty. Rubio's plan has a lesser penalty than that.
Thus it is amnesty.
Time for a true second party. The ‘Rats and most of the GOP are one in the same. Lining their cronies pockets is all they know.
Uh-huh.
And the moon is a large star that burns as brightly as the sun!
Unfortunately, BOTH political parties are pushing for a permanent voting bloc comprised of illegal invaders.
It is time to secure the border. This is similar to having an open wound on the body. You disinfect, close the wound and keep out the bacteria. Any infection you treat with antibiotics.
The flow of trespassers across our border is like an infection getting into the wound. We need to seal the border like you close a wound. The bacteria that has got inside to infect, needs to be treated with antibiotics if the body’s normal defenses are unable. How we treat the trespassers inside our border must be everything that benefits the host. Letting them drain taxpayer money for their welfare must stop immediately. This enables employers to provide work for low wages that is supplemented by the tax payer.
If employers want to reduce costs, they need to push for lower taxes and less regulations. It is ironic that employers do little to fight taxes and regulations and will even donate to politicians who increase taxes and regulations. But that is another discussion . . .
Those inside our borders need to be tax payers We need to develop methods for detecting under-the-table payments for work as a high priority. This is how employers can pay such low wages while attracting low wage workers. We need to break this system because it is a magnet that draws trespassers across our borders willing to risk life to do so. All laws forbidding under-the-table payments for work should be strengthened and enforced; and those involved, prosecuted as a felony. I believe this effort will be one of the first line of defenses against our foreign invaders.
I watched his interview on Fox this morning.
It was more than disappointing.
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