Posted on 06/19/2012 1:10:47 PM PDT by IbJensen
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says the United States has "a significant illegal immigration problem" and needs to find a "balanced" solution:
"I mean, if you do something that somehow encourages illegal immigration in the future, it's counterproductive. On the other hand, it feels weird to deport a valedictorian who has been here since they were four years old and have done well in school. So, trying to find the balance there, that is important," Rubio told Sean Hannity Monday night. "What the President did by ignoring the Constitution, ignoring the Congress, makes it harder to find that balance, not to mention that it's offensive to the constitutional principles of our republic."
Rubio noted that a million people come into the U.S. through proper legal channels every year. "No other country even comes close to that figure," he said. "But if you even suggest that you have an illegal immigration problem and we need to do something about it, if you're a Republican, oftentimes the left will label you as anti-immigrant. And, you know, this is a slam-dunk issue that is easy -- it's just not true.
"You know, on the one hand, we do have a significant illegal immigration problem. It has to be confronted. It has to be solved. We cannot be the only country in the world that does not enforce its immigration laws. On the other hand, we have some very compelling human stories like the cases of these young people who have been here their whole life, who've grown up here, brought here at a young age, through no fault of their own, and it touches your heart to hear these stories. And trying to find a reasonable balance that honors both our legacy as a nation of immigrants and also with the legacy as a nation of laws is not easy."
In March, citing "prosecutorial discretion," federal immigration officials told a North Miami Senior High School valedictorian they were deferring deportation proceedings against her. Daniela Pelaez's case made national headlines after several thousand students, teachers and community members gathered in the streets of North Miami to protest her imminent deportation.
Rubio told Hannity that President Obama, in directing his administration to enforce part of a bill (the DREAM Act) that Congress did not pass, is applying a short-term fix to a "very significant issue that needs to be solved in a long-term way."
Rubio said one of the things that's not being discussed enough is "that the economy and the economic downturn under Barack Obama has especially hurt Americans of Hispanic descent." He noted that unemployment is higher among Hispanics than it is among other groups, and polls show "there's not as much intensity for the president as there was in the past."
He said President Obama, every week, comes out with another issue -- "to try to divide Americans against each other for the purpose of getting him reelected."
How refreshing it is when we know we’re reading something who thinks exactly as we do!
Rubio is an idiot and needs to STFU.
Perhaps the valedictorian could reimburse the tax payers for his excellent education.
I hear ya. Hopefully you’re wrong. I’m not putting money on it.
Ok..amnesty for all valedictorians. But let’s deport the other 799,990 of them.
The worst case is the guy here in CA who wants to be admitted by the BAR to practice law. Since he is illegal..he either is driving without a license or he committed fraud to get one.
They just ignore all the other laws that illegals break and get away with it.
Ok..amnesty for all valedictorians. But let’s deport the other 799,990 of them.
The worst case is the guy here in CA who wants to be admitted by the BAR to practice law. Since he is illegal..he either is driving without a license or he committed fraud to get one.
They just ignore all the other laws that illegals break and get away with it.
Rubio's values are typical street thug when you get down to it ~ no concern at all for the victims.
Say, did this guy get treatment for sociopathy as a child?
That comes up against this long standing Natural Law foundation expressed by Hadley Arkes here:
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1875/article_detail.asp
Consider for example that proposition the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid regarded as one of the truly "first principles" we draw from the logic of moral judgment itself, a principle I've restated in this way: that we do not hold people blameworthy or responsible for acts they were powerless to affect. That principle may cover a wide variety of things where people really had no causal powers over their condition or their acts and should not be held culpable. We may argue in different cases as to how powerless or incapable people actually were, but no one doubts the validity of the principle—
The question is: are you depriving the child of the ill-gotten gains of the bank robber, or are you punishing the child for the robbery?
If we had guarded the boarders and enforced immigration law, these children or teenagers or young men and women would not be facing this problem.
Every amnesty is only an incentive to more illegal immigration, more emotional decision making and more amnesty.
Ronald Reagan, I’m looking at you. This was probably the biggest mistake of his presidencey. a
Well, Marco, if it “feels weird”, you’d better write a proposal for a case by case assessment, and forget the blanket propositions!
As for all of the simple minded “ship ‘em all back” cabal, they need to practice a little real world analysis, and figure out what might actually work.
Start by closing the border!
I totally agree with you!!
has it dawned on him that our teachers unions get to decide who the valedictorian is, and that potentially they could declare ALL illegals to be valedectorians?
Tell you what, after we deport 20 million illegals, we can discuss allowing a few valedictorians back in.
This punk kid Rubio is a fraud and a phony and why anyone supports him is just nuts.
He’s just the next great thing to be used to further the cause of the GOP elites. Conservatives and as a result don’t stand a chance until we deal with these people.
Rubio is on a Romney fishing expedition for advancing what they and the GOPE want to achieve, in exchange for Hispanic votes.
This is the Rick Perry agenda.
Full disclosure here is that I get it, and like it, but yes, Romney is without a core, so he has no choice but to borrow from others, (there is no there, there). Romney will steer by polls alone because he must. He has nothing else in him.
Sounds like Rubio is turning into a PANDER Bare...
Career suicide.
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