Rubio says Cruz hurt U.S. intelligence programs with stance

Rubio was referring to Cruz’s vote in June for the USA Freedom Act, which imposed reforms on a few of the government’s mass surveillance programs. Sen.

Marco Rubio accused GOP presidential rival Texas Sen.

That’s essentially what was contained in the 2013 bill Rubio co-wrote. “He’s a supporter of legalizing people who are in this country illegally”. He did not mention Rubio by name, but he didn’t have to – the audience did after Cruz took a dig at his opponent.

HUGH HEWITT: “Now Senator Cruz, I’m not sure, I can’t recall if you voted against the collection of metadata or for the ending of it, but if it existed, we could be right now connecting dots with Abdulazeez”.

The new plan helps Cruz counter what he says is Rubio’s “blazingly, on-its-face false” argument that both Senators share similar positions on immigration.

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Immigration is a key vulnerability for Mr. Rubio, who was initially part of an effort in 2013 to formulate a bipartisan bill in the Senate to overhaul the immigration system.

Rubio also again slammed Cruz and the rest of the GOP field on immigration, charging every candidate supported legalization of those here illegally, even Donald Trump, who’s called for the mass deportation of all undocumented immigrants. “Cruz President of the United States”, said Kellyanne Conway, the group’s president, in an e-mail, taking credit for boosting Cruz’s poll numbers. Interestingly, Mr Cruz had backed quintupling the number of H-1B visas.

Had this been US policy in May 1956 – when, according to the St. Petersburg Times, naturalization records show that Rubio’s parents, Mario and Oriales, came to the United States on immigration visas – Marco might have been born in Havana instead of Miami.

“Let’s not have an immigration policy that displaces Americans”, Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas said. In the meantime, Rubio had better be careful that he doesn’t turn an ally in the Senate into a frenemy by dumping too much on the USA Freedom Act.

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“Sometimes they say it one way on English stations and another way on Spanish stations”, Cruz said. As Eliana Johnson and Alexis Levinson explain, Rubio was referring to was Cruz’s introduction, during the debate over the Gang of Eight bill, of an amendment that would have removed the language in the bill that granted citizenship to those here illegally but nonetheless allowed them to remain in the country with legal status.

“One of the lessons we should learn from the tragedy in Paris is that we have to be very careful and very cautious, extraordinarily cautious, about who comes to visit, who emigrates here and who studies here”, Paul said in his speech to Republican activists. But Rubio’s immigration bill would have given green cards- and thus eventual citizenship, welfare and voting privileges- to illegal immigrants.