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Sen. Marco Rubio really wants nothing to do with President Barack Obama's immigration backup plan.
Rubio's office on Tuesday released a statement insisting that the plan the Florida Republican is working on has "major differences" from the White House blueprint that was leaked to USA Today over the weekend. Spokesman Alex Conant pointed to a number of measures they say are missing from the White House plan: tying the a path to citizenship to border security, a new visa exit system and a plan to deal with future immigrants.
And Conant said no one in Rubio's office has met with the White House to talk immigration.
White House spokesman Jay Carney addresses whether the release of a draft immigration bill was done on purpose.
"President Obama and the White House staff are not working with Republicans on immigration reform. Senator Rubio’s office has never discussed immigration policy with anyone in the White House," Conant said.
On Tuesday, the White House insisted it was in fact working with lawmakers on the issue. Obama has said he wants the Senate to write a bipartisan immigration proposal, but that he'll release his own plan if that process drags.
"We have been in contact with everyone involved in this effort on Capitol Hill," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said.
Asked to clarify, Rubio's spokesman said the administration had sent agency officials to brief Senate staffers for the bipartisan group of eight senators who are working on immigration reform -- but insisted policy was not discussed.
Gary Cameron / Reuters
Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
"They've never asked for our input. (And, frankly, we've never asked for theirs.)," Conant wrote in an email.
Senior administration officials said that staffers from the White House had attended at least 5 briefings with congressional staffers working on bipartisan reform. At different points, officials from relevant government agencies also briefed the staff group.
Some Republicans have suggested the White House's separate plan could help GOP supporters distance themselves from the president and highlight the compromises in a Senate plan. Rubio's office rejected that analysis.
"The White House has injected additional partisanship into an already difficult process, and raised fresh questions about the president’s seriousness about passing reform," Conant said.
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The TP has everyone in the GOP afraid to do anything that might be called bipartisan. What happened to their backbones?
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Bulletman357,
I respected you when you said that the government (as a whole) was screwed up.
Was this not you?
This was a week ago, and I thought you were a good guy.
Was I mistaken?
"Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented immigrant' is like calling fox a good listen,,,
You are as drunk as a skunk.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
Coc
I'm an independent,and am harder on the GOP,because of their limited scope,of the right thing to,do.
lol..............yes
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
That is just too funny. Scared by the water boy without a clue.LOL
Democrats/Liberals are not known for having great ideas and/or solutions, or producing anything of value... Read some History!
Therefore, they have to look around, and steal whatever "real and intelligent solutions" other "non-Democrats" come up with... It is pitiful!
How about that!
so you have really never read a book..it that what your saying
The Civil Rights Act.
How about what?????? That's nothing but drivel to me.
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Coca roach,,,
hahahahaha
hahahah
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Why do cockroaches have six legs?
That way they can still walk even when their head is inserted in the hole between their back 2 legs.
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Vin,
And repukes do?
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Scvared by Rubio we are. The only choice the repub-lie-cons have. The rest they want to self deport. Too mf funny for prime time.
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Big,,lmao
lol
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
I'm thinking he could of came up with a better name
I have one he could use killa roach
or the last white roach
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
you can say a wigger
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Coc roaches are like Mexicans ,they breed and never die,,,
Got booze?
just like the rest of the gop and tea partiers, politicians not patriots
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Herman Cain has his own Fox show now. they keep digging for straws, blacks , latinos, anything they can because they are so far to the right of fascism.
They're not to the right of fascism. They think only the gays should be in the extermination camps.
Oh and the illegals.
And the blacks of course.
And the atheists.
OK, so maybe the list is getting rather long.
BBB I am with you Bro.
Don't forget -- "illegal" is not a noun.
The republican motto. ( ban abortions) let the 2 year old on the street die from starvatiion and the cold.
999 will fail,zero listenership
once I would have took a bullet for the bullet. Not anymore.
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Just lost you bullet!
Help them when they are zygotes and claim they want small government. F--- them once they are born.
Republicans don't really oppose abortion -- they just want to make it retroactive.
hermain cain..would be the black man who would shoot the slave for his master if he ran away..yes cain would be the house negro..look master he is rubbing away..lets get that n-gger
Good movie. I saw it with Lincoln the same day.
Because Cuban "refugees" automatically go to the front of the line for permanent resident status, Rubio is being disingenuous when he speaks of requiring Mexicans to wait for 10 or 20 years to get what his parents were given the moment they reached our nation's shore.
Invisible I am starting to like you. You are finally making sense.
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
Let's get off the subject of race. BTW, how did you like the latest Quentin Tarantino movie?
How about to start with, If you were illegal, you never get to become legal.
Don't reward the illegals.
like cubans
Damn a whole lot of european immigrants are going to have to go home. Maybe your family.
"Illegal" is an adjective, not a noun. An adjective modifies a noun.
Herman cane,,Dango unchained
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger
roach is that hard to understand
Smells just like he posts. Total shi-.
Why is everything posting so slow? Do I need to get rid of my commodore 64?
Didmyoumhear two half breeds playing golf this weekend,,,haha hehe hoho
Herman cane is a Negro
I'm setting this racist poster to "Ignore This Author."
What has happened to you? I am really one of these days possibly in the near future going to call you Bro! If you keep this up. Seems you got real info. Good for you.
Bulletman357
Obama is half black and is cool,,Herman Cain is a N1gger