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mia

(8,356 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:03 AM Jun 2012

Marco Rubio says he would come to the U.S. illegally if he had to

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/marco-rubio-says-come-u-illegally-had-111859436.html

Hypothetically, if Marco Rubio were not an American citizen and could not provide food for his family, he says he would cross the border illegally to come to the United States.

While discussing immigration policy in his new memoir, An American Son, Rubio called for "common decency" in dealing with undocumented immigrants and said that if put in a similar position as those who are fleeing destitution, he would break the law, too.

"Many people who come here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where we couldn't feed our families," Rubio writes in his book, which went on sale Tuesday. "If my kids went to sleep hungry every night and my country didn't give me an opportunity to feed them, there isn't a law, no matter how restrictive, that would prevent me from coming here."

Rubio, a member of a political party that has largely opposed efforts to extend a path to citizenship to those in the country without documentation, has been crafting his own version of an immigration reform bill that would let some children of undocumented immigrants avoid being deported....


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Marco Rubio says he would come to the U.S. illegally if he had to (Original Post) mia Jun 2012 OP
freeper farewells mia Jun 2012 #1

mia

(8,356 posts)
1. freeper farewells
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:30 AM
Jun 2012
Marco, you’re getting seriously close to a STFU moment....

Keep your piehole shut Rubio....

Profoundly stupid. Rube....

Another RINO with no respect for the rule of law. Adios, Marco!
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