"Amnesty, Marco. Call it whatever they'll swallow but keep pushing it."
Posted on 11/11/2015 7:36:46 AM PST by jimbo123
Sen. Marco Rubio clarified his view on the 11 million immigrants, who are in the United States illegally. The day after a presidential debate, which exposed a continuing divide in the Republican Party on immigration, Rubio told NPR Wednesday he favors a path to citizenship for some, though the prospect would be very distant.
"If you haven't been here very long, or you're a criminal, you will be deported," Rubio told NPR's Morning Edition. "Otherwise, you will have to come forward, pass the background check, learn English, pay a fine, because you violated the law, start paying taxes, and you'll get a work permit. And that's all you're going to have for at least a decade."
But Rubio went a step further. "After 10 years on the work permit, I personally am open to after the 10 years have expired to allowing people to apply for a green card, just through the normal process that anyone else would use."
That means Rubio still broadly backs one of the most hotly debated portions of a 2013 immigration bill that passed the Senate overwhelmingly but could not get through the Republican-controlled House. Rubio helped author the legislation, but later dismissed it as politically unsustainable.
Like some other candidates, Rubio has spoken of allowing some kind of legal status for some of the 11 million. A green card confers the status of a permanent resident and the ability to work legally, with an eventual option to apply for citizenship.
When pressed, Rubio acknowledged that this amounted to a path to citizenship, which many in his party have derided as "amnesty." Rubio, however, described his proposal as "a very long path" to citizenship.
"I personally am open to that," he said. "That is not a majority position in my party
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Rubio favors his special brand of Amnesty. It’s still amnesty regardless of the bog’s lipstick choices.
Yes, a path that starts back in their home country!
No. No path to citizenship. Go back home and stay there if you can’t or won’t obey our laws.
NO!! MURDER THEM ALL!!!
Deport illegals!
Expel muslims!
What about the other 800 million people who would like to live in the United States? Are we helpless against those people forcing themselves on us too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
I don’t favor ANY path for ANYONE who came here illegally. Rubio is bought and paid for now that they know Jeb is not going to make it.
Except for the path back to their country of birth.
Yes - a real loooooong path.
Like a barefoot walk down to Tierra Del Fuego and then back.
Then stand in line behind those who have been waiting for years to enter legally.
Rewarding criminals with US citizenship—What could possibly go wrong.
Exactly. No one seems to want to remember that a good portion of illegals are not from Mexico or Central/South America. What about the ones who over stayed visas? How many is that? They have to get out, too. The spin is always making it seem as though we can’t hurt these poor Mexican people.
You cannot trust Rubio on this issue.
He showed us how he really felt about amnesty back when he supported the “Gang Of 8” Amnesty plan.
It was only after he took a lot of heat from conservatives that he realized that his pro-amnesty stand would hamper his presidential ambitions.
So he flip-flopped and now claims to no longer support outright amnesty.
But what matters is what is really in his heart - not what he says to get elected.
How about this: you must be an American citizen to work here, collect welfare, get health insurance, receive free housing and food and attend school?
American citizenship is so cheap and meaningless that we just confer it to whomever can get their piggy toes across the line?
Mark Levin is correct. The Federal Courts will never allow that. They’d rule that it was discriminatory and order the Government to grant green cards immediately.
Of course perhaps that’s what Rubio really wants.
The push for amnesty by Buckwheat and his minions is a move to get these invaders just enough legal status so that they may vote. Have no illusions FRiends...once the pathway is paved the left will raise holy hell about how their “rights” are being violated because they can not vote...and that isn't fair...and it's racist blah blah blah.
It will be a never ending parade of EE-BEE-DAHS (Latkas) on the tube and the net screaming in languages not English about their civil rights. Anybody who supports this Dreamers B.S. needs to go.
Don't get fooled again....we can't afford it.
In fact, those who are now here illegally would not only be sent back, they would go to the end of the line of all the new applicants.
Rubio just another link in the D.C. chain.
No amnesty. It doesn’t work. It brings more illegals, it legitimizes the illegals already here, and guess what, half the illegals don’t even bother to register. Why bother? If they get caught, they can cry that they meant to, and someone will hand them a fresh set of forms which they’ll forget to fill out until the next time they get caught and then claim they didn’t understand those forms. And the next time where they’ll claim they couldn’t get the needed documents without leaving and re-entering the country...
We’ve been down the road on this ‘solution’ before. It fails to do what the people want it to do, which is to stop illegal immigration. It clogs up the legal immigration system because once you register one, they’ll turn around and work on registering the whole family. It is utterly a disaster and one of the worst actions Reagan ever took.
I do not understand why our party can not learn from our mistakes. It is usually the hallmark of liberals to repeatedly try the same thing over and over again only to think that trying one more time will bring the desired result. This won’t.
Rubio, go get a real job.
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