Rubio, McCain huddle on immigration reform
Rubio says it would be a mistake to push a large, comprehensive reform bill, which could draw reflexive opposition from conservatives who are suspicious of sprawling bills that remind them of the 2010 Affordable Care Act.
“One massive piece of legislation, bill, is probably not the right approach, but I do think we need a comprehensive package, several bills,” Rubio told The Hill. “Not 10, but maybe three or four that sequentially address these issues in a coordinated way.”
McCain is not yet sold on that approach. After all, he and the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) managed to push a comprehensive reform bill through the Senate in 2006. McCain, who has a long history of working with Democrats, knows they would resist any effort to split immigration reform into several pieces.
“We’ll see. I think that’s one thing that needs to be discussed, whether it would be either/or,” McCain said when asked about whether immigration reform should be attempted all at once or done piecemeal.
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Cover your rear ends.
These two are always trouble.
Schadenfreude on December 11, 2012 at 2:32 PM
Amnesty will hand the country to the democrats in perpetuity, and that will be the end of the republic.
Any republican advocating amnesty is engaging in treason, and should be expelled from the party.
Rebar on December 11, 2012 at 2:33 PM
Amnistía: La saga continúa
steebo77 on December 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM
Give it up guys. Until unemployment goes below 6% you don’t have a prayer of passing any immigration “reform”.
Rocks on December 11, 2012 at 2:34 PM
They can both go straight to hell.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 11, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Or some of us of theImmigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. Instant amnesty for over three million with a promise to tighten down entry. We’d say yet again “fix the hole first,” but, well, gee, what’s the point anymore….
apostic on December 11, 2012 at 2:39 PM
Gullible Republians will vote for it based on the promise of future increased border security that will never take place. Just as they will vote for a fiscal cliff deal that raises taxes based on the promise of future spending cuts which well never take place.
Lucy never tires of holding that football for Republicans.
Kataklysmic on December 11, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Outstanding. Maverick and the Cubano Tea Party savior of talk radio.
Prediction: You’ve accepted Mav will betray you. Brace yourself for Rubio’s.
Tell yourself he’s just doing what he has to do to make the GOP electable.
Tell yourself this will make Latinos vote GOP for the next 200 years.
Tell yourself he has the country’s best interests at heart.
Tell yourself it’s the best compromise that could be hoped for.
Tell yourself he’s positioning himself to become the next Reagan.
Just don’t tell me how much meth you had to smoke until you believed all of the above.
CorporatePiggy on December 11, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Even if they were able to control the physical border that would do little to nothing to alleviate the inflow. Without strong interior enforcement, there is nothing to the laws. This is not an issue of “seal the border FIRST” since the border cannot be sealed as we have tens of millions of aliens coming through the US every year and it would only take a small number to decide to stay to fill us up, again, with illegals.
Interior enforcement. Period. There is nothing else when it comes to our sovereignty and maintaining it, which is the foundation of the modern nation-state.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 11, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Isn’t this sad….?
Our own representatives are pandering to foreigners and putting their interests ahead of the citizens.
Had they just locked down the border when they promised they would and made sure that voting laws were followed and no illegals could receive welfare benefits we wouldn’t be in this mess.
NeoKong on December 11, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Hey, is that border secured yet?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
stenwin77 on December 11, 2012 at 2:49 PM
There is absolutely no reason we can’t have both a strong border defense and strong interior defense.
Rebar on December 11, 2012 at 2:50 PM
Plug the hole in the boat, before you start bailing the water out.
SEAL THE BORDER.
portlandon on December 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 11, 2012 at 2:44 PM
The Immigration Reform and Control Act that I cited
Can’t even enforce these, or can enforce these but some joke circuit court will say it’s unconstitutional.
Go ahead, Misters Rubio and McCain: Pass the same law again, only make it a hundred times bigger. And don’t forget about that definition of insanity.
apostic on December 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM
Oh, goody, a gang of two.
Cindy Munford on December 11, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Prediction: Latinos will come to support Rubio just as enthusiastically as women support Sarah Palin and blacks support Clarence Thomas.
Kataklysmic on December 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM
I understand, and you and I are on the same side on this, but it is the feral government’s job to handle interior enforcement, not private business’. The feral government is the one that is supposed to deport illegals, not private businesses. I am okay with a little bit of checks being passed off to businesses – since they have to fill out paperwork for employees, anyway – but the bulk of interior enforcement falls squarely on the government and it should remain there. Our federal courts are also largely responsible for extending “rights” to people who have no right to be in this country. The Constitution was very clearly fashioned to explicitly “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” and illegals are not among “ourselves” nor “our Posterity”. But … this is just one other leg of the leftist destruction of the Rule of Law from within. No surprise, there.
BTW, back in the 1986 amnesty, the estimates for illegals being given amnesty was less than a million, which then turned out to be the more than 3 million that you cited.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 11, 2012 at 2:59 PM
What could go wrong…..
UltimateBob on December 11, 2012 at 3:01 PM
The GOP will never win the presidency if they let this happen. Obama got a whopping 71% of the Latino vote, if this passes under his watch, he would claim credit, and of course more Latino votes. If they can drive the latino vote to near the black vote levels, Dems can hold the presidency for generations.
celticdefender on December 11, 2012 at 3:02 PM
Yeah – just one of the many reasons why Rubio is not to be trusted.
Pork-Chop on December 11, 2012 at 3:36 PM
stuck on stupid. the whole bunch of them.
ChunkyLover on December 11, 2012 at 3:37 PM
We get these guys (Cristie & Rubio), and they speak so eloquently. Then, after a year or so, the real them is revealed and they’re just as bad as the ones on the left.
moonsbreath on December 11, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Ummm.. Yes, Rubio wants immigration reform. It is called he is running for President in 2016.
Illinidiva on December 11, 2012 at 3:48 PM
I’m not sure that will happen again in our lifetime, and it certainly won’t in the next four years, unless it’s a result of a record number continuing to drop out of the workforce and give up.
Right Mover on December 11, 2012 at 3:50 PM
Ronald Reagan passed immigration so I’m guessing he was a big ol’ RINO?
hmmmm
terryannonline on December 11, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Just wait for Ted Cruz.
The Rubio-McCain-Cruz-Kennedy-Waters Immigration Reform Act of 2013.
It’ll be hailed as the finest legislative achievement since the Civil Rights Act.
CorporatePiggy on December 11, 2012 at 4:01 PM
their wasn’t a history of it back then, you fool
ChunkyLover on December 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM
You mean a Senator from a border state wanting to do someting about the illegal immigration problem? Really! Shocking!
terryannonline on December 11, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Granting amnesty is doing nothing to solve illegal immigration
ChunkyLover on December 11, 2012 at 4:09 PM
If the bill includes tightening up border security… it might not “solve” the problem but it sure will decrease it.
terryannonline on December 11, 2012 at 4:13 PM
We never get increased border security the open borders people always find a way not to increase security. In the last days of the Bush admin we were suppoosed to get so many miles of fence well we only got a small percentage of that fence.
ChunkyLover on December 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM
fence
ChunkyLover on December 11, 2012 at 4:19 PM
What would be shocking would be his rhetoric matching up with his actions once he is ensconced in DC.
They will not.
CorporatePiggy on December 11, 2012 at 4:30 PM