Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) called on President Donald Trump on Tuesday to clarify what kind of legislation he would sign to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced earlier in the day that Trump had rescinded DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, which protects nearly 800,000 young undocumented people from deportation. The first deportations of DACA recipients could begin in as little as six months.
Trump said in a statement following Sessions’ announcement: “Congress now has the opportunity to advance responsible immigration reform that puts American jobs and American security first.”
Rubio, in a statement, called on Trump to clarify what he was willing to sign into law.
“It is important that the White House clearly outline what kind of legislation the president is willing to sign,” he wrote. “We have no time to waste on ideas that do not have the votes to pass or that the president won’t sign.”
Rubio also wrote that he had “long supported accommodating those brought to this country illegally through no fault of their own.”
“However,” he added, “I have always felt that President Obama’s executive action was unconstitutional and that the right way to address this issue was through legislation.”
In 2013, Rubio co-authored the so-called “Gang of Eight”’s immigration bill, which included a lengthy path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants. During the 2016 presidential campaign, however, he distanced himself from the effort.
America, where everyday is like pulling the wings off flies.
Congress is already licking the boot that just kicked them in the head. If Rubio wasn’t still teething he would have said Congress will get a veto-proof bill protecting Dreamers and re-instating DACA as law.
Senator Rubio is actually making sense. What kind of DACA bill, if any, would Don the Con sign? Trump is a well-known liar and flim flam man and it’s hard not to imagine he’d just veto any bill out of cruelty and spite.
Were DACA unconstitutional it would have been challenged and ruled unconstitutional in court during the FIVE YEARS that it’s been in place (almost entirely during the Obama administration). But it wasn’t because it isn’t.
So let’s be crystal clear on this lie that keeps getting repeated (and slavishly amplified by the mainstream media): When Sen. Rubiwimp deflects with this entirely fraudulent complaint, he’s really saying that he doesn’t have the cajones to take a stand for Dreamers. So he’s blaming Obama for legally doing what he weakly claims he’s in favor of doing. And that is ALL he’s saying. …
… except that he’s also saying: “I am a liar, because only a liar would continue to claim, against all evidence, that something was what it wasn’t.”
Apparently Rubio was not paying attention when DT clearly outlined what kind of legislation he was willing to sign after the ACA was repealed and replaced. Or when he clearly outlined what kind of legislation he is willing to sign to reform the tax code. If Rubio is willing to base his vote on anything DT clearly outlines then he is even lazier and more stupid than I give him credit for being.