H/T Harry Riley
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May 01, 2013
A billboard taking aim at U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is expected to be installed next week in Georgia, said the head of a conservative group that is behind the effort.
The group is unhappy with the Florida lawmaker because of his central role in a bipartisan Senate bill that seeks to reform U.S. immigration laws by, among other things, tightening enforcement, expanding the guest worker program and providing undocumented immigrants a path to legal status.
It is his support for giving undocumented immigrants an opportunity to legalize – while continuing to live and work in the United States – that most upsets them.
“There’s the betrayal factor,” said D.A. King, who helped draft several of Georgia’s anti-illegal immigration laws. “It’s a mystery to us why he’s still considered a conservative.”
“In his race for the Senate, Rubio said that he would never support any amnesty,” said King, head of the The Dustin Inman Society, described as a non-partisan coalition of citizens against illegal immigration. “If there was any real intention to secure the borders it would have been done after 1986, or after 2007 in preparation for what is happening now.”
Rubio has come under attack from several fellow conservatives since he became part of the so-called “Gang of Eight,” made up of four Republicans and four Democrats in the Senate who worked on a comprehensive immigration bill.
Last month, for example, a Tea Party group in Rubio’s Florida district held a protest against him, and several of his Republican colleagues in Congress singled him out when criticizing the Senate measure.
Rubio has hit back, sending emails nearly every day shooting down what he says are myths and distortions about the immigration bill. In particular, he has taken apart the whole contention that a path to legal status is tantamount to amnesty.
Rubio has argued that amnesty would be to pardon the undocumented immigrants, but that the Senate bill requires those who seek legal status to pay fines, show that they’ve paid taxes, and wait more than 10 years before acquiring permanent legal status, commonly called “a green card.”
Rubio has said that those who oppose providing a path to legal status are, in fact, supporting an “amnesty” by allowing the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants to continue living in the United States, under the radar.
On Wednesday, a conservative group called the American Action Network (AAN) announced the launch of a $300,000 television advertising campaign on Fox News Channel, featuring Rubio, to build support for the Senate bill and “calling on Congress to end ‘de facto amnesty.’”
“Our broken immigration system is hurting our country and our economy,” said American Action Network President Brian O. Walsh. “While it isn’t perfect, this reform legislation is tough and fair, and a lot conservatives will embrace it when they hear the facts.”
King, who erected a billboard recently taking aim at U.S. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican that also is one of the "Gang of Eight," insists that it would be another amnesty.
"Most people aren't going to play the silly game of defining a word," he said. "It's a legalization program. Maybe we need a redefinition of the word conservative, it's more than just not being a Democrat."
Last week, a bipartisan House group introduced bills on agricultural reform and E-Verify, a system for employers to check the eligibility of prospective workers. Proponents of the House's approach to immigration have said separate bills addressing various aspects of immigration stand a better chance of approval than a single, massive bill.
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...and they will lie to you and swear they are conservatives, almost as bad as a Muslim. The majority of the crew in DC are there for their own selfish accrual of personal wealth. They want you to pay for it though. Another Hollywook jerk in the political mainstream. If we keep using the, "Sounds Good, nand Looks Good" to elect them, this is the cream of the crap.
It is about time to look inwardly to their souls, Amnesty is contrary to our basic laws of earning a place at America's Dinner Table.
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Amen. It's time that we drew our own line in the sand and call out those that call themselves Conservatives to prove they are worthy of the Conservative moniker.
I agree Allen and yet they keep getting into office again and again..... WHEW! Will the Sheeple of America ever learn? I doubt it yet here we are, getting our rights taken away as fast as they can take them.
SO WHY??? ARE WE JUST NOT ADHERING TO THE LAW THAT IS FOR THIS NATION; YOU COME THE RIGHT WAY OR YOU DO NOT COME!!! PERIOD! The longer we talk and talk and talk....the more come and the harder it will be to remove them!!! JUST TELL THEM THEY MUST GO, AND DO IT! The damage these people have caused and the laws they have broken, do NOT give them the right to become citizens unless they go home and apply, wait like everyone else. Just because they are here makes NO difference; that is exactly the point; they are HERE ILLEGALLY and must be sent home, period. They purposefully came here and many had kids the same way, thinking it would cement them here....WRONG! THEY KNOWINGLY IGNORED THE LAW AND MUST BE MADE TO PAY FOR THAT AND A PAULTRY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT THEY HAVE COST US IN ALL THE BENEFITS THEY HAVE TAKEN, THE JOBS, THE PLACES IN SCHOOLS, THE NONSENSE THEY CAUSE IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND WORK PLACES THINKING THEY SHOULD BE TREATED SO SPECIALLY...WHY?, WHAT FOR?....THEY ARE CRIMINALS!!!!!!!
Stop all the talking and get them out of OUR NATION>>>>>WE DO NOT WANT THEM; OR MUSLIMS OR TERRORISTS OR anyone else that is taking from us and making our nation a sewer! The incessant dance of idiocy is long over done and needs to stop and the job accomplished so we can at least say we have made one step in the taking back of our country!!!! CLOSE THE BORDERS!!...AMERICA NEEDS NO MORE PEOPLE HERE TO HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF!...OR MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE LOOKING FOR WORK AND NEED JOBS....GET REAL AND TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN! THIS IS OUR COUNTRY! WE CAN SEND MONEY AND WHATEVER TO 2/3RDS OF THE WORLD BUT OUR OWN GOVERNMENT WILL NOT MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR OUE OWN.....I am not talking about the buying of votes for the Dems with all the idiot freebees....I AM TALKING ABOUT HONEST HARD WORKING AMERICANS AND SENIORS WHO HAVE WORKED ALL THEIR LIVES TO MAKE THIS A GOOD PLACE!!! OUR IDIOT GOVERNMETN OUGHT TO BE KINK FAR TO THE CURB AND PUT IN PRISON FOR THE TYRANNY!
GET MAD AMERICA AND LET THEM HAVE IT LOUDLY AND NOW!!!!!!!!!!
If Rubio does not make himself clear he will not get the votes when he runs for Pres......WE HAVE GOT TO GET SOMEONE STRONG TO RUN AND STOP THE INSANITY OF THE LEFT! It is so enough about these illegals and the trashing of our country by them...get them out of here and let's get on with taking care of our own! THEY ARE NOT ANYONE THAT WANTED TO BE AMERICANS OR THEY WOULD HAVE COME HERE THE RIGHT WAY!!!!!...THEY MOOCH AND DESERVE A KICK IN THE SEAT BACK ACROSS THE BORDER TO STAY THERE...WE DO NOT WANT THEM HERE, PERIOD...WHO NEEDS THEM; MEXICO DOES!....THEY HATE US AND DO NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING BUT CLUTTER OUR COUNTRY....WE HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH. THEY WILL END UP IN THE FRONT LINES WHEN THE DRAFT COMES! ARE THEY SO STUPID THAT THEY CANNOT SEE THAT?
The ones that have come the right way and are decent folks I have no problem with....they pledged to us and became one of us....that is fine...it is the rest of them that need to be made to leave! and leave NOW!
RUBIO SAID THEY WOULD NOT GET WELFARE. SENATOR SESSIONS DISAGREES. YOU CAN'T TRUST THESE LIERS LIKE RUBIO. ANOTHER THING, HE IS NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN
MUST BE BORN OF TWO U.S. CITIZENS, AND RUBIO IS NOT. BARACK OBAMA IS NOT. WE WOULDN'T HAVE THIS PROBLEM IF ALL THE SECRETARIES OF STATE HAD DONE THEIR JOBS IN THE FIRST PLACE. ALSO, IF CONGRESS
WOULD DO THEIR JOB, OBAMA WOULD ALREADY HAVE BEEN EMPEACHED AND IN PRISON. PEOPLE, IT SHOULD BE CLEAR TO EVERYONE BY NOW, IF OUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO BE SAVED, THE PATRIOTS MUST DO IT. OUR GOVERNMENT CANNOT BE FIXED. IT IS CORRUPT TO THE CORE. IT HAS DECLARED WAR ON US, ON OUR NATION, ON OUR GOD AND OUR CONSTITUTION.
ISN'T THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT SUPPOSE TO DO A THOROUGH BACK GROUND CHECK ON ALL OF THE POLITICIANS, INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT. You are right, our government is corrupt to the core. Know one in the government is doing their job, all they want is to get paid handsomely for doing nothing other than making laws that are not being enforced. It all starts with our local government officials and works all the way to the top of the chain.
They want back ground checks on anyone that wants to own a gun. WHO TAKES CARE OF THE BACK GROUND CHECK ON ALL OF OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS? WE NEED TO START ALL OVER AGAIN, GET RID OF ALL THE ILLEGALS, CLOSE OUR BORDERS AND DOWN-SIZE OUR GOVERNMENT ROLLS.
This is a perfect example of TPs stupidity. Instead of paying money to publicly show disapproval of Rubio, the intelligent thing would be to confront Rubio in person with a dozen TP heads along with a list of facts and reasons why he is wrong. The more the TP groups focus on one thing about a candidate the more division will grow. It will only encourage infiltrators to find fault with a conservative candidate and harp on it. The seed for destruction has begun. Work with knowledge, facts and reason. We need to win in 2014 and it starts with unity now.