Rand Paul Uses Paris Attacks to Criticize Marco Rubio

Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) painting him as moderate on immigration. Rand Paul (R-KY), another candidate for the GOP presidential nom, filibustered the reform bill in order to protest the larger Patriot Act, causing it to briefly expire.

2016 Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has adopted a new hardline approach to immigration that includes putting a halt on even legal immigration in the U.S.

Second, and more importantly, the Cruz amendment Rubio referred to was a “poison pill”, meant to sabotage Rubio’s handiwork. Sargent described Rubio’s argument as a clear attempt to “distract from Cruz’s attack on [Rubio for] his support for Schum-o-bamnesty”. Ted Cruz, I contended, is especially well-positioned to exploit Rubio’s vulnerability. If you’re a standard hawkish conservative trying to decide between them and haven’t already been scared away from Rubio over immigration, the idea that Cruz is a few sort of Snowden sympathizer might help you decide.

When Marco Rubio teamed up with John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham and Bob Menendez to push his Gang of Eight Amnesty scheme, he said he wanted to secure the border.

“Rubio’s foreign policy consists of babyish moralizing, a cultivated ignorance of history, and a deliberate blindness to consequences”, The Week’s Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote earlier this year. It clearly believes that Rubio’s work on immigration reform is his main vulnerability.

Here’s phase two of Rubio’s plan to parry Cruz’s attacks on the Gang of Eight by convincing voters that Cruz is sort of a RINO himself.

In contrast, Cruz pledges to “Suspend the issuance of all H-1B visas for 180 days to complete a comprehensive investigation and audit of pervasive allegations of abuse of the program”.

Without naming them, Cruz said each of his Republican opponents in Tuesday’s debate “composed an epic poem in support of amnesty, explaining how compassionate and loving it is”.

“Donald Trump wants them to leave before he legalizes them…and then he’s going to legalize them and bring them back in”, he said. “There are some people in some states who see it one way, and some who see it the other”. “As President, I will take immediate steps to pass legislation or a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship”.

Cruz’s plan doesn’t explicitly say what he would do with the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the USA illegally. “But I don’t think that in the 21st century we can continue to have an immigration system where only 6.5% of people who come here, come here based on labor and skill”. But Rubio’s immigration bill would have given green cards- and thus eventual citizenship, welfare and voting privileges- to illegal immigrants.

On Monday, Rubio said the number one obligation of the federal government is to provide national security for the country, a point he often makes on the campaign trail. “If this bill can not be amended so that it fully repeals Obamacare pursuant to Senate rules, we can not support this bill”, they said in a joint statement last month, along with another conservative senator, Mike Lee of Utah.