Sunday, June 23, 2013

Who Said This? 'Earned Path to Citizenship is Basically Code for Amnesty'?

H/T RomneyMan
When former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio was running for the Senate in 2010--as a conservative candidate backed by the Tea Party movement--he insisted that illegal aliens inside the United States would need to go home and that giving illegal aliens "an earned path to citizenship," such as his opponent Gov. Charlie Crist, former President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain had advocated, was nothing more than a "code for amnesty." 
Rubio, who won that 2010 election, is now the leading Republican in the U.S. Congress pushing for illegal aliens to be given the earned path to citizenship that he himself insisted was "code for amnesty" only three years ago.
Rubio's declaration that to allow illegal aliens to stay in the United States and get on a pathway to citizenship was in fact amnesty came in an Oct. 24, 2010 debate hosted by CNN's Candy Crowley and Adam Smith of the St. Petersburg Times. 
"So, your plan is that you're going to close the borders, get the electronic system, fix the legal system, and then do what?" Crowley asked Rubio in that debate.
"And then you'll have a legal immigration system that works," said Rubio. "And you'll have people in this country that are without documents that will be able to return to the, will be able to leave this country, return to their homeland, and try to re-enter through our system that now functions, a system that makes sense."
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4 comments:

BOSMAN said...

I'll bet most of you knew the answer without opening the post.

RomneyMan said...

What's Walkers. Christies, McDonnell's, Jindals etc view of the debate.

Like Simon and Garfunkel said..the sound of silence.

BOSMAN said...

RM,

Let me know when you find one of them preaching that this Immigration Bill is a good one......................................................................................................................chirp....chirp...

RomneyMan said...

The chance would be a fine thing. It would involve something called 'saying where one stands' on an issue. Not the most common thing those 'lovely governors with executive experience' do.