Rubio’s immigration plan: The lesser of two evils
They doth protest quite a lot. Especially because, on the single most important issue — instant amnesty — there is no real difference between the proposals.
Rubio calls it “probationary legal status.” Obama uses the term “lawful prospective immigrant.” But both would instantly legalize the 11 million illegal immigrants living here today. The moment either bill is signed, the 11 million become eligible for legal residence, the right to work, and relief from the prospect of deportation. …
Obama makes virtually automatic the eventual acquisition of a green card and citizenship by today’s 11 million. The clock starts on the day the bill is signed: eight years for a green card, five more for citizenship. It doesn’t matter if the border is flooded with millions of new illegal immigrants (anticipating yet the next amnesty). The path to citizenship is irreversible, rendering enforcement irrelevant. …
In the end, the only remaining vessel for enforcement is the Rubio proposal. It is deeply flawed and highly imperfect. But given that the Obama alternative effectively signs away America’s right to decide who enters the country, the choice between the two proposals on the table today is straightforward.









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Least evil = no plan
El_Terrible on February 22, 2013 at 2:42 PM
How about ‘Parole’ instead of Amnesty? http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/immigration-parole-not-amnesty
BritCarGuy on February 22, 2013 at 2:43 PM
El_Terrible on February 22, 2013 at 2:44 PM
Why not enforce the existing law and build the dang fence?
sharrukin on February 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM
Good that you’ve not bought into the conspiracy theories abounding on HA. lol
tommy71 on February 22, 2013 at 2:49 PM
This.
And I would add, make the employers of illegals have some “skin in the game”, make it a felony to knowingly hiring an illegal and implement a national E-Verify system.
Rebar on February 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM
and ObamaCare.
Fenris on February 22, 2013 at 2:50 PM
They’re all evils.
Schadenfreude on February 22, 2013 at 2:51 PM
I’ve always liked the idea of letting the illegals sue their employers for the wages they would have made if legal. Let them destroy their own job market.
sharrukin on February 22, 2013 at 2:54 PM
Which is simply more proof that there is no real difference between obama and Rubio.
Pork-Chop on February 22, 2013 at 2:59 PM
What’s stopping them from doing that now? It’s not like they’re going to be deported.
Fenris on February 22, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Not sure that its legal. We should pass a law allowing it at ten times what they would have gotten and then deport them.
sharrukin on February 22, 2013 at 3:02 PM
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Still evil, maybe the Tab of evil, maybe not evil enough for Dr Evil, but still evil.
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And unecessary.
LincolntheHun on February 22, 2013 at 3:04 PM
Started out E pluribus unum.
Went to E pluribus duo.
It is E Pluribus Screw’em now.
Schadenfreude on February 22, 2013 at 3:04 PM
So now there isn’t a single Fox host or analyst opposing Rubio’s plan. I’m sure that has nothing to do with the fact that Rupert Murdock loves amnesty.
Jon0815 on February 22, 2013 at 3:07 PM
But is it legal legal? I’m sure there’s a sympathetic court in California that will take such a case.
Fenris on February 22, 2013 at 3:08 PM
I got dizzy with all the zigzagging rationalizations Krauthammer threw in that column.
Here’s where Dr. K’s coming from, just days after the election:
sauldalinsky on February 22, 2013 at 3:11 PM
I don’t think American Hispanics care that much about the issue. And who cares what illegal immigrants think, it’s not like they have a vote …oh wait.
Fenris on February 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM
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You’d think that after watching Clinton and his antics, that Dr K nows that Liberals will twist the meaning of any word to fit thier immediate needs.
What does affirs mean?
Do all four have to affirm or just be in the process of Affirming?
What is a trickle?
On and on and on.
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Dumb proposal from what is supposed to be a smart man.
LincolntheHun on February 22, 2013 at 3:20 PM
LOL.
It’s treasonous, as is Rubio, The Worm.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 22, 2013 at 3:23 PM
Why, Why, Why is there always this choice of the lesser of two evils? How about NO EVIL! DO NO HARM. DON’T SCREW SHIT UP. We didn’t sent Republicans there to concede to Democrats, if we wanted that we would have voted for the Democrat – WTF is that so difficult to understand? Are you trying to appease the Liberals that don’t / won’t vote for you anyway? The STUPID in DC is astounding!
rgranger on February 22, 2013 at 3:23 PM
1. 11 million is the lie talking point of the commie Democrats and the GNN (Goebble News Networks).
2. He misdirects just like a liberal (worked to get the most liberal to ever run for Pres. prior to Obama).
3. They do go home on their own sometimes 2 to 3 times a year via all the Mexican (bad repaired, bad condition, bad drivers) Bus Lines in operation here within.
How to know this as its not in the GNN, go to a truck stop around two weeks or so befor Christmas and watch.
How to know this ask the Texas, New Mexico, Az, Calif. highway patrol officers who see it up close.
4. Charles is an enabler of the two party evil money cult in Washington D.C. by the very fact he condons the “McCain” like incest that goes on as we lose the rule of law.
Question Charles, what other laws will need to be overlooked next, do you have a list yet, or do you guys just play it by by ear as the need comes.
Clear it is that is U.S. aginst them all.
Just say no.
He will sell some book on something else and get speaking fees some other way.
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Two Party Evil Money Cult enabler.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 22, 2013 at 3:24 PM
Fenris on February 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM
LincolntheHun on February 22, 2013 at 3:20 PM
Yup. Bottom line is Obama’s plan = Rubio’s plan. Reject them both.
sauldalinsky on February 22, 2013 at 3:25 PM
LOL at making hiring illegals a felony. I live in a very nice neighborhood but I suppose it will now be more felons per square foot than SingSing.
Rubio and Dr K of course are correctomundo.
Marcus on February 22, 2013 at 3:28 PM
Wipe your chin.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM
Or they could just, you know, not break the law in the first place.
Fenris on February 22, 2013 at 3:40 PM
I hate when someone tries to convince me I lost before I actually lost.
There’s a sense of duty to country involved here “Charles”…and I’ll fight on if you don’t mind.
lynncgb on February 22, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Being the party of lesser evil ain’t much of an alternative. No wonder the GOP is in such a sorry state. Flinching from politically correct media scrutiny is all the Republicans are good for these days.
Dongemaharu on February 22, 2013 at 3:42 PM
Why, yes — yes it would. I think Holder could get behind sending folks from very nice neighborhoods to Sing Sing.
Punchenko on February 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM
So long as his neighborhood is more Beverly Hills than Hyde Park.
sauldalinsky on February 22, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Rubio? Obama? What’s the difference anymore?
VorDaj on February 22, 2013 at 4:44 PM
Today we must all be aware that political protocol takes precedence over constitutional procedure, just as evil takes precedence over good. However you say – WHAT THE – what does this mean… in relation to the tabulation whereby we must once again realize that the great reconquesta story is now being rehearsed before our very eyes, in the rise of Marco Rubio… indicating that only a two faced, I mean a bifaced, I mean a bilingual hombre can receive…the award for reconquesta, unlike Kenyan Hussein Obama whose reconquesta plans don’t drink water.
Amigos – friends – comrades, we are gathered here not only to accept on behalf of one man without any borders – one who has found that the world in itself seems to be in a time of the toad. This in itself is an edifice of the great glory that has gone beyond, and the intuitive feeling of the American people, based on the assumption that the intelligence not only as Mencken once said, “He who underestimates the American voter will not go broke.” This is merely a small indication of this vast throng gathered here to once again behold and to perceive that which has gone into the behind and to that which might go forward into the future…we’ve got to hurdle these borders. This is the main deterrent upon which we have gathered our strength and all the others who say, “What the hell did that get?” – We don’t know.
And as Miller once said in one of his great novels- what did he … that language is only necessary when bilingual communication is endangered. And you sit there bewildered, and Pinter who went further said “It is not the lack of communication, but fear of communication.” That’s what the damn thing is that we fear – communication – especially all the Spanish communication that’s even on a box of Wheaties now. Damn it! But we have no paranoia, and through all this Senator McCain has attained, and has created for himself serenity, and it is only his insanity that has kept him alive in his senility.
Alright, moving right along here in my brief remarks. We speak of the organ…of the orgasm…Who the hell wrote this !!!??? And the bi-partisan panel has determined to give the prize to Marco Rubio for his EARNESTY’S RAINBOW. Now EARNESTY’S RAINBOW is a token of this man’s genius…he told me so himself and repeatedly …that he could…in other words, have been more specific, but rather than allude to the mundane, he has come to the conclusion that brevity must be the importance of our nation’s shallow first world existence. God damn!
Ladies and Gentlemen. To the distinguished panel on the, on the dais, the time will come when a first world America will outlive its usefulness. Marx, either Groucho or Karl, I can’t remember which, maybe it was both, once said that America is the opiate of the people. I say that when America outlives its usefulness as a First World country and becomes a majority Spanish speaking nation, then opium…will be the opiate…Ahh that’s not a bad idea… we are going to need that and plenty of it, especially if the booze runs out …
All right…However, I want to thank Charles Krauthammer of the Chamberlain Press, who has made it possible for you people to be here this morning to enjoy the Reconquesta Citation – Marco Rubio’s . EARNESTY’S RAINBOW – a small contribution to a certain degree, since there are over seven billion people in the world today. 450 of them … million live in the United States and Mexico which is a very, very small amount compared to those who will be miserable and dying elsewhere…Well, I say that you will be on the road to new horizons, for we who live in a society where citizenship is a political commodity and a politician can become a TV personality, it’s not easy to conform if you have any morality…I, I, I said that myself many years ago…
But I do want to thank la Raza…I mean the DNC, the organization for the $1,000 in affirmative action scholarships they’ve given out…tonight they took in over $4,000,000 in contributions, but they do have expenses you know, and I think that I have another appointment. I would like to stay here, but for the sake of brevity I, I must leave. I do want to thank you and again I want to thank Mr.Charles Krauthammer. And I want to thank Marco Rubio – acting el Presidente of Mexamerico and also Mr. Obama – acting Pharaoh of the Unites States – and also I want to thank Professor Irwin Corey and thank you.
RasThavas on February 22, 2013 at 4:53 PM
Yes the choice is straightforward….pass neither of them. Obama isn’t going to be president forever. The negative effects of amnesty on the other hand will never go away.
xblade on February 22, 2013 at 5:31 PM
Fine with me. If they’re dumb enough to do the crime, they can bend over and do the time.
xblade on February 22, 2013 at 5:34 PM
ps
Charles K.,
On your lazy idea of the lesser of two evils and all that.
Back in the day in Laos in 1968 working as a hired gun for LBJ, we saw an ambush getting set up for U.S., some real evil NVA and some go along vc guys , we shot them all and let God sort them out.
It’s not nice this war stuff, but Obama is at war with U.S. and we will fight back and hope God sorts it out soon if not the fight is ours ongoing.
APACHEWHOKNOWS on February 22, 2013 at 5:46 PM