Is It "Marco Rubio," or "Marco Arafat"? In Talking to English Speakers, Republican Senator Insists That Amnesty is Conditional on Enforcement, but in Speaking to His Own People in Spanish, He Insists That Amnesty "is Not Conditional"!

 

Was Yasser Arafat Marco Rubio's role model?

 

 

 

 

 

Posted by Nicholas Stix

 

A tip 'o the hate to my VDARE colleague Patrick Cleburne.

 

For a generation, whenever Arab Moslem terrorist Yasser Arafat addressed non-Moslems in English, he assured them that he wanted Arab Moslems and Israeli Jews to live together in peace, within a "two-state solution." However, whenever he addressed Moslems in Arabic, he reiterated his dedication to murdering all of the Jews, and stealing their country. And so it is with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the pride of the national Republican Party. Whenever he speaks in English about S. 744, the illegal alien amnesty/immigration surge bill, he insists that all sorts of enforcement and security "triggers" and conditions must be fulfilled, before the amnesty can be completed. However, as Byron York reports below, Rubio tells a much different story, whenever he speaks to Hispanics in Spanish.

 

 

Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — "It is not conditional"

June 10, 2013 | 12:36 p.m. | Modified: June 10, 2013 at 2:00 p.m.
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Byron York

Chief Political Correspondent

The Washington Examiner

@ByronYork

In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio said that legalization of the nation's 11 million currently illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements. (Photo: Examiner file)

In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest statement yet that legalization of the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements.

 "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."

In most of his public appeals for the Gang of Eight bill, Rubio has stressed its enforcement provisions, saying that border security must come before immigrants are granted legal permanent resident status. What he has not stressed so much is the fact that the bill would legalize the 11 million almost immediately, after they have passed background checks and paid some sort of fine. That would happen before any new security measures are completed, or even begun.

But on that he was very clear in his Univision appearance. "As for the legalization, the enormous majority of my colleagues have accepted that it has to happen and that it has to begin at the same time we begin the measures for [the border]," Rubio said. "It is not conditional. The legalization is not conditional."

Here is an English translation of Rubio's remarks. Here is video of the Univision appearance.