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Marco Rubio: The Immigration Reform Opportunity
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 2, 2013 | Marco Rubio

Posted on 05/03/2013 9:17:43 AM PDT by EveningStar

Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America's broken immigration system and end today's de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally. It will also show that Washington can work when leaders listen to the American people and invoke their wisdom in debates and legislative work.

In January, I outlined my principles for conservative immigration reform in these pages—principles that guided the drafting of this legislation. These include securing the borders; requiring all employers to verify their workers' eligibility and severely penalizing them if they hire illegal immigrants; cracking down on legal immigrants who overstay visas; and modernizing the legal immigration system to meet America's 21st-century economic needs for both highly skilled talent and guest workers to fill labor shortages.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; friendofann; gangof8; immigration; immigrationreform; marcorubio; marcotheconman; rubio
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Old Lie? Yeah okay.

Now do a google search and type in the words Operation Kaos and Rush Limbaugh.

Then there is the Famous "I have Hitlary's Thesis" BS. Google that one too.

Rush is an entertainer. He is Pandering. So before you come on here attacking perhaps you ought to learn a bit about Rush and HIS history.

41 posted on 05/03/2013 11:01:54 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: EveningStar
 photo gangof8_zpsffc44942.jpg How can Rush or anyone give even ONE of the Gangsters a pass.
42 posted on 05/03/2013 11:03:03 AM PDT by RetSignman ("...a Republic if you can keep it")
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To: EveningStar

The opportunity to kill America and the GOP by importing millions of new dependents (i.e., Democrats.)


43 posted on 05/03/2013 11:12:25 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: EveningStar
Here's a different opportunity......

Enforce E-Verify - TODAY.

Enforce employer sanctions - TODAY.

When illegal immigrants can't find jobs, they go home.

They “self-deport.”

44 posted on 05/03/2013 11:26:24 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Little Ray

Re: “Illegals will have access to welfare as soon as they have a legal status.”

Here in Washington state, illegal immigrants already have access to welfare, and they are ILLEGAL!

Washington state requires no proof of legal residence in the USA for Food Stamps, Medicaid for children and pregnant women, heating assistance, rent subsidies, Earned Income Tax Credit, and unemployment benefits.


45 posted on 05/03/2013 11:33:52 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

excuse me, but if you look on the right of the page there is a rather large FR post regarding Rush’s giving cover to Rubio and saying Rubio has told him that the bill isn’t what we are hearing it is.


46 posted on 05/03/2013 12:01:02 PM PDT by stockpirate (Planned Parenthood, murdering black children one baby at a time.......where is the outrage)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears

Here read it for yourself and what other freepers are saying...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3014295/posts


47 posted on 05/03/2013 12:03:52 PM PDT by stockpirate (Planned Parenthood, murdering black children one baby at a time.......where is the outrage)
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To: lewislynn

I think Rush is wrong and Rubio is a leftist


48 posted on 05/03/2013 12:04:44 PM PDT by stockpirate (Planned Parenthood, murdering black children one baby at a time.......where is the outrage)
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To: stockpirate

He has no halo, and is not a deity like some require

But he is outstanding.


49 posted on 05/03/2013 12:06:11 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....History is a process, not an event)
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To: lewislynn

Lew, what a coincidence. I got one earlier to day as well. I told them that since they’ve decided to support candidates sponsoring gun control like Toomey and other candidates sponsoring Amnesty for illegals like McCain, Graham and Rubio, they can kiss my A$$ goodbye and collect donations from their new supporters, Schumer and Durbin! I then told them to take a close, hard look at the UK right now and notice what happened to the Tory “fake” conservatives - they were beat by a new British version of the tea party, the UKIP. Based on the asinine moves of the republican party, the same is about to happen here. I felt bad for the caller, who seemed to sympathize, but enjoyed giving it to them on what they described as a recorded line.


50 posted on 05/03/2013 12:14:09 PM PDT by Nicojones
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To: bert

How about just being honest about the bill?


51 posted on 05/03/2013 12:26:01 PM PDT by stockpirate (Planned Parenthood, murdering black children one baby at a time.......where is the outrage)
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To: EveningStar

Fraud.


52 posted on 05/03/2013 2:02:13 PM PDT by vmivol00 (I won't be reconstructed.)
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To: P-Marlowe
The Republicans have turned a blind eye to appease their Corporate donors ....

Au contraire, FRiend ..... eyes wide open!

They see perfectly well the White House slipping away for 100, 200, 400 years ..... and still they don't care.

That's because they don't do White Houses .... they care about rainmaking with their corporate, S&P 500 and Park Avenue bosses. They do what the bosses want, and the bosses know their money will keep them high and dry and out of the flood, when the Deluge comes and the rest of us have to fight for our lives!

Rubio has accepted the proffered wage, and slipped into the House of the Dead.

Very disappointing, but there you are.

53 posted on 05/03/2013 4:36:34 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: stockpirate
I think Rush is wrong and Rubio is a leftist

I think you're right about Rush getting this one wrong, but I don't think Rubio's a leftist .... he's a servant of the PRC, the moneybags people and power-junkie people. He works for Them. Not us.

54 posted on 05/03/2013 4:38:44 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
What day did you allegedly hear Rush say this?
Gee, I don't do transcripts of his program so I guess you mighr be right that he didn't say THOSE EXACT WORDS...but he did say words to that affect.

He said Rubio knows it won't get past The House. That he's doing this to harm the Democrats.

Maybe the problem is YOUR interpretation of what he says...get it?

55 posted on 05/03/2013 5:43:29 PM PDT by lewislynn ( We bet on the black, it came up red.)
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To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
Quote from Rush transcript: 4-30-13
I think Senator Rubio is a little naive on the immigration stuff, and I also know that this bill is not intended to pass. You cannot take that out of the equation. I'll tell you something else. I'm glad you actually got through here, A.J. I know you thought it was stump the host day. But you're gonna help me look really good here, which is the purpose of a caller anyway.

Marco Rubio has so artfully positioned himself on this bill. It's a Gang of Eight. He controls four of 'em. Marco Rubio has it within his power to make or break this bill, because the Democrats and Chuck-U Schumer have allowed him to become the face of it.


56 posted on 05/03/2013 6:00:25 PM PDT by lewislynn ( We bet on the black, it came up red.)
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To: AuntB

“chance to fix America’s broken immigration system and end today’s de facto amnesty for those who live here illegally.”

This is insanity. He is saying that we have de facto amnesty (resulting from the first amnesty in l986) yet he thinks the way to fix it is to give even more amnesty?

Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result? Insanity.


57 posted on 05/03/2013 7:39:06 PM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: lentulusgracchus

“I think you’re right about Rush getting this one wrong, but I don’t think Rubio’s a leftist .... he’s a servant of the PRC, the moneybags people and power-junkie people. He works for Them. Not us.”

So please tell me what is the difference? mmmmmmmmmmmm


58 posted on 05/04/2013 5:38:25 AM PDT by stockpirate (Planned Parenthood, murdering black children one baby at a time.......where is the outrage)
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To: stockpirate

Welll, you’re echoing David Horowitz and his “it all comes together at the top” thesis. I haven’t enough knowledge, and I suspect he hasn’t, to say whether he’s right or wrong, but I hope he and others keep digging until finally someone can pop out a defensible thesis and shine a light — with names and photos — of the movers of this dog’s breakfast of ideology and anti-constitutional, antidemocratic conspiracy.


59 posted on 05/10/2013 8:54:03 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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