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Marco Rubio says he and Ted Cruz have similar stances on immigration, which is why the Texas senator’s shots at his record on that volatile subject the past few days have surprised him.
“I’m puzzled and quite frankly surprised by Ted’s attacks, since Ted’s position on immigration is not that much different than mine,” Rubio told a crowd of reporters in Orlando at the Republican Party of Florida’s Sunshine Summit.
“He’s a supporter of legalizing people who were in this country illegally,” the Florida senator said at a news conference immediately after he spoke at the event. “If he’s changed that position, then he certainly has the right to change his position on that issue, but he should be clear about that.”
Rubio then said that on other immigration issues Cruz has gone further than he has in trying to accommodate undocumented immigrants.
“He wanted to double the number of green cards. He wanted a 500 percent increase in the number of HB-1 visas, so everybody running for president on the Republican side, in one way or shape, supports some form or fashion the legalization of people who are in this country illegally.”
Rubio said the question now is what’s the most responsible way to deal with the issue. He then repeated his stance since he began distancing himself from his support as one of the “Gang of Eight” bipartisan Senate group who wrote a comprehensive immigration reform bill that the Senate passed in summer 2013, but that former House Speaker John Boehner never brought before the House.
Rubio’s stance is that there needs to be tighter border security to get the illegal immigration situation under control before there can be any discussion about what to do with the undocumented.
He blames the migratory crises of the summer of 2014 and President Barack Obama‘s executive actions a year ago in trying to shield millions from deportation as being the major obstacles against the current Congress working on immigration reform. “The biggest lesson from 2015 for me was how little trust there is in the federal government to enforce the law. Once you prove it to people that it’s working, than I think you’re going to have the support and political space that you need to move forward on modernization and ultimately on dealing realistically with those who are in this country for a significant period of time,” which Rubio says should be about 10 years.
For his part, Cruz isn’t backing down one bit in the verbal battle, telling conservative talk show radio host Mike Gallagher earlier Friday, “From Day One I led the fight against the Gang of Eight amnesty bill, stood shoulder to shoulder with Jeff Sessions … and we defeated it.”
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Dave Francis
November 13, 2015 at 7:14 pm
WHY NO IMPEACHMENT FOR THIS OUTLAW PRESIDENT?
The only President that I remember, who thought he was above the law was Nixon. He eventually fell beside the wayside in a few sinister tactics. The Watergate scandal was his downfall as the scandal escalated, costing Richard Nixon much of his political support, and on August 9, 1974, he resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office.
Now we have King Obama that is collecting a far worse reputation whose agenda seems in destroying the American dream. His alto ego has been to drive the American economy into a mass depression, by not following the law on the illegal alien invasion that is occurring now. The last population figure I heard was 92 million genuine Americans and legal residence who have been confronted by numbers that seems unheard of since the Great Depression; unemployment, part time work or those who had given up even looking.
Even our children are suffering, because illegal aliens are stealing their seasonal jobs.
Obama has restrained the hand of the US Border Patrol and the internal enforcement of ICE agents and so our Southern border is a mess. The agents who drive along the sectors from Brownsville, Texas to the San Diego, California are demoralized, yet they still try to enforce the laws of the land.
Obama’s Imperial overreach of executive orders has to some extent been quashed by the Federal court of Texas, but this administration cares nothing for the law and is still determined to press forward with an illegal act. Personally I am sickened and angry with this Administration I voted for, thinking this man might be different from the rest? Instead my fatal vote was for a plutocrat, who has lowered America’s self-esteem in our allies, and pilfered the US treasury in pandering to illegal aliens.
In 2016, I will not that same mistake again. I’m an Independent now and I will be voting no matter what for outsider Donald Trump, or Senator Ted Cruz as a backup? The Liberal mainstream press has belittled Trump and so have some in the GOP, as they are stunned by his incessant rise in the polls. I am like millions of free thinking Americans that finally have realized the economic map of the United States has already ordained by the massive influence of Super Pac money and the lobbyists that buy most legislators–except Donald Trump.
TRUMP DOESN’T TAKE ANY CRAP FROM ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY THE DEMOCRATS, THE LIBERAL ZEALOTS, AND THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
He is a fighter and that’s what we need on Pennsylvania Avenue? When he commits himself to something, he means it? Just saying that if Mr. Trump doesn’t become the nominee or even Senator Ted Cruz of Texas then it will not be even worth voting in my case? It will be just the same type of people running things, the same buyouts of American voters, by the wealthy or special interests. It makes no difference between the two hierarchy leadership. Then we have the ‘Spongers’ or ‘Freeloaders’ and not just illegal aliens? It’s a downright shame that among the working people are the forever welfare recipients, who are the virus that brings our nation down.
Big Democrats will give away the US treasury to gain votes, especially for illegal aliens, seeking without apologizes illegal voting. Nor is the GOP bowing to their wealthy donors and Super Pacs for cheap labor, while our people get the rough end of the pineapple.
From the desk of Natalie Johnson is a news reporter for the Daily Signal. http://dailysignal.com/2015/11/10/:
Senate Republicans are asking the Department of Homeland Security to explain a leaked agency memo reportedly revealing that federal officials are planning to evade a federal court order barring pieces of President Barack Obama’s executive immigration actions.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, led eight others on the committee in a letter sent to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson last week demanding he clarify the document.
The agency’s proposed regulations would allow immigrants, including those in the U.S. illegally, to receive extended work permits if sponsored by an employer, even if the sponsorship is terminated or expired.
The leaked memo states that a benefit of the proposed action would be to “authorize the presence of certain individuals who are not here lawfully and address the needs of some of the intended deferred action population.”
The senators charged that such changes would “directly violate” a federal court injunction issued in February suspending Obama’s plan to shield roughly 5 million illegal immigrants from deportation through expansions to a program granting extended work permits.
The executive program, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), initially granted temporary two-year legal status to immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and attended school in the country.
In 2014, Obama issued an executive order extending the work permits to three years. He also established deportation protections for certain undocumented parents of already protected children.
Twenty-six states filed a lawsuit against the 2014 executive action in a Texas federal court, leading U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen to issue an order placing the programs on hold.
The senators argued that the leaked DHS document appeared to show that agency officials “actively engaged in attempting to skirt” Hanen’s injunction, constituting “yet another illegal ‘executive action.’”
“The authors of the memo openly acknowledge, and offer as a reason to support the proposal, that granting employment authorization to illegal immigrants under the proposed scheme would accomplish, by different means, the de facto legalization of the population intended to be legalized by the enjoined DAPA program,” they wrote.
The committee gave Johnson until Nov. 12 to respond.
“We want assurances that the administration will refrain from moving forward with any such proposal that harms the integrity of our legal immigration system and violates the law,” they wrote.
The letter was signed by Grassley along with Republican Senators. David Vitter of Louisiana, Orrin Hatch of Utah, John Cornyn of Texas, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Mike Lee of Utah, David Perdue of Georgia, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Ted Cruz of Texas.
Got some time, then head for another organization that is growing in California. (CAPS) http://www.capsweb.org is for the stabilization of the California illegal alien incursion. In the state they have a governor who seems greatly oblivious to the massive cost to the taxpayers.
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