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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 3rd world dictator had no more intention of looking at a bipartisan solution to immigration than he did to the budget. Remember the Gang of 6? He ignored them and cut his own deal (which he then reneged on and blames everyone else for). Same thing here. This arrogant little pr!ck thinks he's above everything.
Poor little Marco, whining again.
This guy actually thinks he has a shot in 2016 for the republican nomination. The republican party won't nominate an Hispanic. They only ever nominate white christian Caucasians. I am guessing Jeb Bush or Chris Christy.
fascist - there is nothing you can post on this vine that could be construed as a true story.
They are not going to nominate an anchor baby.
I am all for much more border security including the use of deadly force but those two issues have nothing to do with each other.
And it's an easy out for them, they'll just continue delaying and delaying until not even 1 person crosses the roughly 7,000 mile border illegally.
Yeah little marco has sooooo much in common with other latinos...like his parents and him receiving kid glove treatment like most cubans when he sneaked into the coutry illegally...oh wait..
That was a big fat marco lie wasn't it..
Fascist - you must be playing devils advocate. As a fascist and a teabagger you must hate Hispanics.
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Ah, the new face and message of the Republican Party. Spelled "a-l-i-b-l-a-h-b-l-a-h." Tremble in fear, Democrats. Your days are numbered. LMFAO.
That is because the white house is racist. If they weren't, then they would simply agree with Rubio.
Not securing the border and offering amnesty is ludicrous. The simple fact is Mexicans consider the SW their confiscated land and there are no rules for them - until they get caught. Many more do not get caught.
Mexicans are taught from a young age CA, NV, AZ and NV is their rightful property as Mexicans. Sorry, kids, but is not and has not been for 160 years.
rebel, it was stolen from them after all. The history you probably learned in scholl is a joke and full of lies.
Aside from that fact, I agree that the borders require additional securing, but that will cost more money and we all know where the House and the Seante are on that little gem.
Something needs to be done and the more Congress tries to tackle at once, the more prone they are to failure or standstill.
We need to Stop ILLEGAL immigration! They're not just doing jobs that Americans don't want. Do they pay taxes? Don't get me wrong most of these people work very hard, but are a drain on the system if they don't pay taxes, have healthcare coverage, learn the language or get paid wages that are in line with their American counterparts. Who's footing the bill for the education of their children and the infrastructure around them? We all know that the health care provided to uninsured illegals here in the states is being averaged into our hospital costs and our insurance premiums, which have PROPORTIONATELY increased along with illegal immigration over the last 20 years? These costs are also being passed along to Medicaid and Medicare, which means that not only are they increasing our insurance premiums, but that we're paying for them again with our tax dollars.
Our tax dollars and insurance premiums should not be used to recoup the cost of healthcare given to illegal immigrants, who shouldn't even be here in our country in the first place.
To the people that disagree, we should ask them should this: If a few illegal immigrants knocked on your door and demanded that you pay some medical bills for them, would you pay them?
Just look around and you'll see who's doing 90% of the residential renovations, construction and property maintenance jobs. That's certainly what we're seeing in the northeast. These are not just jobs that Americans don't want.
Unfortunately the hiring of cheap illegal labor causes a chain reaction. The contractors who hire cheap, uninsured, non-taxpaying, ILLEGAL aliens undercut the contractors who hire US Citizens or Legal immigrants. Even if the contractor wants to continue to employ US Citizens or Legal tax-paying immigrants, they end up replacing their Legal employees with illegals just to be able to get the work.
Let's get the good productive ILLEGAL Aliens into the system and paying federal and state income tax or get them out and not let more in unless they come in as Legal Immigrants. Make them apply for legal visas and or U.S. citizenship and if they don't, then get them out. If they get rejected get them out or give them one quick appeal and if they still get rejected, then get them out.
But let's send the bad ILLEGAL Aliens back to where they came in and let's put a stop to any more ILLEGAL Aliens getting in. When we finally bring back our troops from the Middle East, how about then using them to help better protect our borders from these intruders.
Imigration Reform. Another waste of time in Washington. If you do not have proper documentation to be in this country, please move to and exit the border upon which you entered. Or, call imigration on yourself for a free bus ride(and probably luch too) to the border. Have a nice day.
Give them the dickens Rubio, Remember what Teddy Roosevelt said in 1907 on imigrants speech, Read it and tell that bunch in the white house and congress "baboons" to read it also. Suck it & and shut up, be an american or get out...............
Be an American. When will you and the rest of the repuke goons be getting the H... out?
Why is anyone paying any attention at all to this junior twit? He has little seniority. He's in a close to back row seat. There's 99 other votes. How do we stuck with the repuke crooks year after year?
No wonder Israel likes using USA as today the exhibit of King Cyrus's Cylinder as the first rule for freedom for immigrants in 538-539 BC. History tells all the secrets and even surprises as the Iran President might be Jewish. The pass is so complex but tells us more then many of us want to know.
One of Americas immigration policies started back in 1948 through the United Nations little social engineering scheme. The middle east has been a disaster ever since. Rubio can't top that train wreck. Don't worry.
I'd give all illegal immigrants who are presently one chance to go through Ellis Island like my relatives. One by one. Being documented. If they are diseased or a criminal then they are sent back. Simple. If they don't want to go through Ellis Island and are found illegally in the US then they should be returned to their country without going through any paper work. This includes all the undocumented workers. Again, if they want to travel back and forth from here to Mexico, they have decided to stay in Mexico. Companies who depend on these workers need to be highly regulated and double taxed for having undocumented workers unless they assure that the worker is paying taxes and not sending the money back to their country. If they have decided to work her then they need to be part of the country not a ghost
Hey libbies, news flash - Marco may have had a drink of water today. That should fuel your simplistic minds for a few days. Oh wait, wait, Mitt's real name is Willard. OMG, did I say that? Willard Willard Willard. look at me, I'm a Democrat and I think for myself (if i'm told to).