Posted on 06/14/2013 6:20:53 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Marco Rubio: We need to legalize immigrants so they can pay for border security June 13, 2013 | 10:00 pm
Why is it necessary to legalize the roughly 11 million currently-illegal immigrants in the U.S. before newly enhanced border security and internal enforcement measures are in place? Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Senate’s Gang of Eight, says part of the reason is that the federal government can’t afford to secure the border on its own and needs financial help from the immigrants themselves, in the form of fines paid when they are legalized.
Rubio made the statement during a radio interview after he voted against an amendment from Republican Sen. Charles Grassley that would have put off legalization until after the border is secure — a position supported by majorities of voters across the political spectrum. Host Andrea Tantaros asked Rubio why he opposed something that was important “to so many in the Republican party?”
Rubio’s first reason was that the U.S. has no other choice than to legalize the 11 million. Enhancing security first would take an estimated four years, and Rubio declared, “We cannot wait another four years with 11 million people living in this country illegally without knowing who they are or why they’re here.”
But there was another reason. “We need to register them as soon as possible, not just to keep the problem from getting worse, but we’re going to require them to pay a fine, and that’s the money that we are going to use to pay for the border security,” Rubio explained. “If we don’t get that fine money from the people that have violated our immigration laws, then the American taxpayer is going to have to pay for border security.”
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I predict in a few years Rubio will claim there is “a dark stain of racism” in the GOP.
We’ve had 13M illegal alien invaders 4 years ago, now it’s down to 11M, and RubyRino’s argument is that we can’t wait another 4 years? Why not? Maybe the numbers will go down to 9M by then. Especially if we deny state birth certificates to illegal alien children subject to a foreign jurisdiction that are born here. And deny schooling to non-citizens until their country of origin pays the bill.
There are so many more dis-incentives available to consider it becomes quite obvious to thinking adults that selfish motives are behind the aiding and abetting of an invasion by members of Congress.
Many of us warned people about Rubio awhile back but nobody was listening. Just as many of us warned about the character of Chris Christie
I honestly thought this was satire. I really expected to click the link and find that it went to that satire news service. This is like a really bad joke.
“We need to legalize illegals so we can find out what’s in them.”
(Rubio was in the Military?)
That's what the people of (old) New Hampshire felt about David Souder.
They tear down your fence, break into your home and steal you blind.
Then they won’t go home.
They hang around whining that you aren’t feeding them well enough or giving them enough free stuff.
When you get your paycheck they demand a share of it before you even have a chance to buy food for your own kids.
Then some schmuck 4th cousin of theirs who gets a job with the government comes along and tells you that you can’t demand they go home.
And that you have to adopt them and make them co-owners of your home and car before you can ask them to fix the fence they tore down to break into your home.
Better idea, Marco: Let's round up all the illegal immigrants - THEY ARE LAWBREAKERS AFTER ALL, make them pay for the services they've stolen, and then make THEM build a border wall and thow them over the other side when it is done!
The border could be sealed in a matter of hours,if the lives of Washington politicians depended upon doing so.
He’s painted himself into the indefensible, and now he looks like a total idiot, reduced to the illogical and nonsensical and hypocritical retorts from the SCHUMER RAT playbook.
A manned and towered Ma Deuce every 500 yards would do it.
I think he's intentionally trying to talk so fast that no one can understand what he's saying, or prove that he said it later.
My guess is Hannity continued to say something like “but I give him credit for trying” and “I really believe he is sincere.” Not surprising coming from someone still calls Rove The Architect. Hannity is very shallow to say the least.
lets just take away all their money (IRS style, with AR15's) as we deport them.
So what are the odds that the border will EVER be closed?
And what are the odds that immigration ‘reform’ will NOT become law?
Offer a $1000 per head bounty on illegals and the border will be closed in a year - for much less money that it takes to fund the U.S. Border Patrol!
Stonewalling. <-hey, that's a great idea. Stone wall.
Seriously, back a few years ago, before congressional elections, congress began the big promise of a border fence to gain support for re-election. They even passed legislation to begin building I believe it was 750 miles of fence along the border with Messy-co.
After the election was in the history books, they voted NOT to appropriate the full amount to complete the fence.
Americans have such short attention spans. In 1984 (no, not the movie), a democrat controlled congress promised to secure the border and enforce immigration law in return for Ronald Reagan's signature on an amnesty plan for approx. one million illegals.
They lied. Neither happened. Here we are two and a half decades later facing the same ol same old.
Americans have such short attention spans.
I thought the selling point was to secure the border first? When did that change to; Let them in now so they can pay for the fence over time?
You want to fund the fence Marco? I got $100 million you can throw into the kitty. Cancel National Lampoon's Ulimate African Safari Vacation.
THIS POS is the Republican wonderboy???
He represents Mexico, not America.
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