Not so long ago, such conservative movement notables as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and many of their colleagues were singing the praises of Florida Senator Marco Rubio.\u00a0 The latter, we have been told, is a rock-ribbed conservative and GOP star who could very well be the next president of the United States.<\/p>\n
Doubtless, it is courtesy of the pivotal role that he\u2019s played in promoting the amnesty agenda of \u201cthe Gang of Eight\u201d that accounts for why the enthusiasm for Rubio among movement celebrities at least appears to have cooled some.\u00a0 Hopefully, appearance here coincides with reality, for Rubio is not now, nor has he ever been, a conservative.\u00a0 His position on immigration is just the latest proof of this.<\/p>\n
Yet it isn\u2019t just that Rubio has been tenaciously advancing amnesty for millions upon millions of illegal immigrants, though this is bad enough.\u00a0 What\u2019s worse is the dishonesty that he\u2019s shown in his pursuit of this end.<\/p>\n
Rubio features in an ad that is played incessantly in Republican-friendly venues in which he tries to convince his party\u2019s base that his amnesty plan is \u201cbold, very conservative, a tough line on immigration.\u201d \u00a0But, observes Jon Feere from the Center for Immigration Studies, given \u201call the exemptions and waivers\u201d contained in his bill, \u201cit is difficult\u201d to buy this.<\/p>\n
Rubio also promises that for the 11 million or so amnestied immigrants, there will be \u201cno federal benefits, no food stamps, no welfare, no Obamacare,\u201d and \u201cthey [will] have to prove that they\u2019re gainfully employed.\u201d\u00a0 Feere\u2019s response: \u201cRubio is simply wrong with these assertions.\u201d He explains: \u201cIllegal immigrants are already receiving federal benefits and this bill would do nothing to stop that.\u201d Moreover, Rubio\u2019s plan \u201cwould actually extend greater amounts of benefits to illegal immigrants by giving them legal status.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rubio claims that his plan deals with the problem of illegal immigration \u201conce and for all,\u201d but as Feere points out, the 1986 amnesty on which Reagan signed off also promised to deal with this problem \u201conce and for all.\u201d\u00a0 It failed abysmally to deliver. Why think things will be different now?<\/p>\n
According to Rubio, his bill does not incite immigrants to come to America illegally.\u00a0 Feere remarks that, evidently, Rubio is not paying any mind to \u201cborder officials\u201d who have testified to the contrary before Congress.\u00a0 Feere cites a Washington Times <\/i>article in which Border Patrol Chief Michael J. Fisher\u2019s testimony before the Senate is relayed.\u00a0 Fisher is blunt: \u201cWe have seen an increase in attempted entries.\u201d\u00a0 The article continues: \u201cHe [Fisher] said part of the reason for an increase is that Congress is talking about legalizing illegal immigrants, which is luring more foreigners to try to be in the U.S. when amnesty takes effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rubio\u2019s claim that amnesty is not \u201cunfair to the people who have done it the right way\u201d is just as bogus as his other assertions.\u00a0 Feere writes: \u201cThe reality is that illegal aliens get to stay in the country the moment they apply for amnesty.\u201d\u00a0 As soon as they pass \u201cthe simple background check, they receive legal status and nearly all the benefits of citizenship [.]\u201d<\/p>\n
Rubio\u2019s ad calls for us to \u201cstand\u201d with him in putting an end to \u201cde facto amnesty\u201d while supporting \u201cConservative Immigration Reform.\u201d\u00a0 Feere replies that \u201cRubio wants to turn the de facto amnesty that we\u2019re currently experiencing as a result of non-enforcement of immigration laws into a de jure amnesty for millions of people who do not belong here.\u201d\u00a0 At the same time, he \u201casks you to \u2018stand\u2019 with him, but Rubio himself is standing with Obama, Napolitano, La Raza, the ACLU, and many other amnesty supporters who cannot be described as \u2018conservative\u2019 in any sense of the word.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feere does a thorough job of exposing Rubio\u2019s comprehensive amnesty plan for the sham that it is.\u00a0 However, just a modicum of common sense is enough to see that Rubio and his accomplices in the Gang of Eight are trying to pull one over on us.<\/p>\n
Our government has proven itself to be either incapable of or unwilling to enforce our immigration laws up until this point.\u00a0 Now, after Rubio and company heap new conditions upon the old law books, we\u2019re expected to believe that the government will finally do what it has neglected doing for decades.<\/p>\n
But if you believe this, then you\u2019ll believe that Marco Rubio is a conservative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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