Marco Rubio doesn’t support amnesty, doesn’t subscribe to la Raza’s slave agenda nor is he for open borders. However, he is warning Republicans that the tone many take in the Immigration debate is turning off Hispanics. This includes many who are politically Conservative but are tired of seeing their community demonized.
WASHINGTON — With growing signs that Hispanic voters are turned off to GOP positions on immigration, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is trying to use his national profile to deliver a message to his party: Tone it down.
“The Republican Party should not be labeled as the anti-illegal immigration party. Republicans need to be the pro-legal immigration party,” the Florida lawmaker said on Fox News Monday morning.
The appearance follows other efforts in the past two weeks — including a story in the Wall Street Journal and a speech in Texas — in which Rubio has criticized inflammatory immigration rhetoric.
“You’re talking about somebody’s mothers and grandmothers and brothers and sisters,” Rubio, the 40-year-old son of Cuban immigrants, said in Dallas.
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Experts say Rubio is correct in arguing that less heat around the issue would help Republicans, who need to perform well in Latino-heavy states like Florida, Virginia, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico.
Before anyone starts trashing Rubio as a RINO, nowhere did he call for amnesty. He was discussing the tone and even called for modernizing our inefficient immigration system. He is talking about the tone many Republicans take in this debate. This tone makes many Hispanics paranoid and feel that it’s not just illegals who are being targeted, that the real agenda is the elimination of the Hispanic population in the US. This has hardened attitudes against the GOP. This could be very costly to Republicans politically long term and lead to permanent Democratic dominance. If that happens, America will reach the point of non recovery.
Republicans should make the debate about rule of law and fairness. To turn it into a culture is ignorant and self defeating. As much as some want, baring a genocide, Hispanics are going nowhere and many are inter married with White Americans. Marco Rubio just wants the GOP to change the tone, which would attract many Hispanics who don’t like illegal immigrants themselves.. Nowhere did he say this is not a legitimate issue.
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Huh? Who and where was this ever said?
I don’t think he is a RINO but I hardly know him. I do think we need to start shooting at the border when non-uniformed invaders try to invade the soveign country. We should also deport all illegals, period. We had amnesty under Reagan. A one-time amnesty. We need to end bilingual writing on everything from cereal boxes to atm pin machines at the grocery store. maybe 10% of people in America (notice I did not call them Americans) cannot speak English. Why cater to 10% ? Why not have everything also in profanity for fuck sake ? Many men speak in profanity and there are more of “us” so why not cater to us. I for one am tired of seeing press the green button for “credit” and “credito” underneath. Why not have “credit” and “fucking plastic” underneath for profane-preferring men ? As far as numbers goes it makes sense. Not that it makes sense but we have to stop the insanity of political correctness. Those hispanics embarrassed to be American-ized should stop complaining. We have a culture and we like it just fine. And if we do spanish, why not ebonics ? 15% of America is negroid (aka black, african-american, etc) and they speak ebonics so why not cater to them with their own translation too ? Or women, half the country is women. why don’t we put a whine translation under each word too. ? as a caucasoid, I am tired of being demonized for slavery perpetrated by southern democrats. I am tired of being demonized for being a religious nutjob because I have an “R” by my name. But I won’t stop voting for common sense and the lesser of the two evils. Time for the hispanic community to join the country and become Americans first and formost and be hispanic on their own time. The Irish, Italians, etc all came to that conclusion a loooong time ago.
It seems to be a very fine line, if any, between being ‘pro legal immigration’ and not being ‘anti-illegal immigrant’. I’m not sure how you’d do that, unless he means to talk about the importance of legal immigrants to the American experience/melting pot.
@ common_sense:
a righteous rant!
what the senator is simply saying is to craft the message, not changing any positions at all, but craft it to say what we are for: legal immigration
instead, we go on and on and on about illegal immigration, often the language that is both racist/nativist/etc.
what he is saying is that a majority of latins are here legally, they don’t like illegal immigrants of any type either and agree with the GOP about the illegal problem, yet these same law abiding latins are wary to vote GOP because the message is quite frankly, aimed at mexicans. so they wonder, after the mexicans, am i next in the target?
the GOP could get so much more votes by just by saying what they ARE for: legal immigration, not ranting about what they against, illegal immigration.
enforce the laws, adjust the message, and get more votes from people who already agree with you…bonus right there.
Middle class Hispanics should be natural Republican constituents.