Reply #4: ......“so anti-immigrant, so xenophobic, so tied to the extremist right wing.”

[seafan]

Of the anti-immigrant, great Hispanic hope of the GOP....



Politico
October 26, 2011

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The senator has conceded he may have gotten some dates wrong, but he has continued to insist he’s the “son of Cuban exiles” because his parents never could return to their native country after 1961, when they realized their country had taken a turn for the worse under Castro. However, new discrepancies in Rubio’s story surfaced this week based on his parents’ 1956 immigration application, which shows they never intended to return to Cuba.

“Permanently,” Rubio’s father answered when asked how long they intended to stay in the U.S.

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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), a Puerto Rican American and one of Congress’s most vocal advocates for comprehensive immigration reform, said he doesn’t understand how Rubio can be “so anti-immigrant, so xenophobic, so tied to the extremist right wing.”

“You know what I say to him — the immigrants who come here today that you brush aside so easily, I hear your story about your mom and dad. They are the same. They came here to work hard, to sweat and toil in some of the least of the meaningful jobs,” Gutierrez told POLITICO.

“His story is that they washed dishes, that they worked in restaurants, that they sweated and they toiled at blue-collar jobs, and I say, ‘You know what, it sounds like the very same people that you want to deny an opportunity in the United States today, and I think it’s kind of shameful.’”

The end of the line for blind political ambition is now closer for Mr. Rubio.