Furious Republican rips into Marco Rubio

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is ripping Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and other Republicans for facilitating the Democratic approach to immigration reform and deceiving the American people about what’s in the legislation.
Rubio stated repeatedly in recent weeks that effective border security was essential to getting his vote for the final version, despite his role in drafting the original bill. Earlier this week, however, Rubio told a Univision audience, in Spanish, that the effort to legalize the millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S. was the top priority.

“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”
Rohrabacher is not impressed.
“Rubio is so mixed up and so confused. I think he has given up his rightful place to advise any of us in Washington what to do, and he’s given up any right to be trusted by the American people,” he said.

Rubio tried to clarify his comments by saying that effective border security would be needed to trigger permanent legal status or citizenship for current illegals, but that temporary legal status would be conferred as soon as the bill is passed.

“This is just a lot of weasel words that Rubio and these people are throwing in. They’re going to legalize the status of people here illegally. Once they do that, that is an amnesty. And once they do that, there will be no border security improvements. It’ll all be a facade,” said Rohrabacher, who warned this bill would only attract tens of millions more illegal aliens.

Also this week, the Senate voted down an amendment to the immigration bill by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that would require border security to be in place before any legal status is given to illegals. All four Republicans in the Gang of Eight voted against the amendment.

“That shows you exactly what the intent of the people pushing the legislation is, the fact that they couldn’t put legitimate triggers into the bill so we’d be able to determine whether the more had been made more secure. So the fact they had to vote that down in the Senate shows you that they’re not serious and they’re lying to us when they say otherwise,” said Rohrabacher, who vowed he will not vote for any bill that legalizes the status of anyone who came to this country illegally.

But it’s not just the Republicans in the Gang of Eight who are pushing the GOP to get behind the bill. Rohrabacher revealed it’s coming from all angles.

“We have been in an era of massive propaganda and pressure on each and every one of us, from the big-moneyed interests in our districts who want cheap labor to the liberal news media that want to further the cause of the liberal left. They’ve been pushing, pushing, pushing,” Rohrabacher said.

House Speaker John Boehner said immigration reform is his top priority and may not necessarily demand a majority of support from Republicans before bringing a bill to the floor. But Rohrabacher said that would be completely unacceptable.
“I would consider that a betrayal of the Republican members of the House and a betrayal of Republicans throughout the country,” he said. “If Speaker Boehner moves forward and permits this to come to a vote even though a majority of Republicans in the House oppose whatever is coming to a vote, he should be removed as speaker.”

Roohrabacher also fears House and Senate leaders may try to ram this bill through before summer recess, giving members little time to read the bill and Americans no chance to confront their lawmakers over the break. He said doing that would be a “declaration of war” against opponents of legalization and a “betrayal of the American people.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/gop-lawmaker-rubio-using-weasel-words/#jWGBLlDIzSZScpxh.99

And once again the RINOs are screwing us. 

Sigh. Major set up issue

Shows marcos inexperience imo, playing into the dems hands like this

Yep.  I understand now that Tea Party groups are looking for someone to run against Marco next time.  I liked him but he made the mistake of trusting Dems to be honorable.  Just like Reagan did on this issue way back when.

How did amnesty become a bad word?  If you were born in a shit hole like Mexico, couldn't afford to feed your family despite working your ass off, and couldn't afford to enter the US legally, what would you do?  People keep trying to make these illegal immigrants sound like their trespass is equivalent to that of a murderer or rapist, when these folks simply are risking life and limb to come here and work under dangerous conditions for horrid pay just so they can have a chance at the American dream.

As for the 'securing the border first' approach, its a trick.  The Republicans are trying to seed an impossible condition into the bill to prohibit implementation.  They're trying to have their cake and eat it to.  They want credit for passing immigration reform without actually allowing more legal immigrants or doing anything meaningful about the number of illegal immigrants in the United States.

Bryant wrote:How did amnesty become a bad word?  If you were born in a shit hole like Mexico, couldn't afford to feed your family despite working your ass off, and couldn't afford to enter the US legally, what would you do? 

 Apply for citizenship in the US.  Beg for asylum.  Apply for a VISA to work here.  There are ways to get here legally.  But I do think maybe our laws about immigration could be better.  Maybe not as expensive.  But I sure wouldn't expect the US to just throw open its doors to anyone.
 
We just want people to obey law and order.  Most of the illegals are people who overstayed their VISA.  Thus they found a way to get here in the 1st place, but broke the law by not going back.

Exactly. I mean why have a border in the first fucking place? Lets just let every third world peasant in? Do you think america ever would have turned into america if the colonists said, "nope, its too hard. Lets all go to french louisiana instead."? Of course not, and mexico will alwYs be a shit hole as long as mexicans would prefer to leave it behind.

This is all about political power.  They could secure our border if they wanted to.  They could come up with a way to keep up with VISA holders.  But both parties are worried about votes and political power and that's foremost in their mind, rather than doing the right thing.