Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday used CNN’s Jake Tapper’s script to defend the failed border bill authored by Republican leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Shot down, trampled on, ruined.
Democrats argue that while McConnell’s bill tightened asylum rules, it actually created an asylum highway to citizenship, Rubio said. Said Appeared on CNN’s State of the Union talk show.
“Asylum is a path to citizenship,” he said, cutting into Tapper’s pro-immigration talking points.
“Look, there’s something inside.” the bill what we should do, [such] We need to change asylum standards,” Rubio told Tapper. But Rubio added:
This bill basically creates an exile force, right? …thousands of bureaucrats [4,300 Asylum Officers], who are basically agents, asylum agents, who are authorized to bring people into the country with work permits right at the border. today, [migrants have] Wait 6 months. [If] If we give them immediate work permits, more people will come. It’s a huge magnet.
or [4,300 Asylum Officers have the] They would be given immediate release and the power to grant asylum, which would put them on a five-year path to citizenship, something many Democrats want. They want to convert large numbers of illegal immigrants into voters, citizens, voters. That way, they’ll know who they let into the country and be grateful, hoping they’ll turn around and vote for them in future elections.
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— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) February 11, 2024
As Mr. Rubio explained, Mr. Tapper looked surprised. exile highwayThis is likely because his media allies ignored the bill’s text and instead emphasized Democratic talking points.
For example, Tapper hastily tried to reassure viewers. [bill] Just to be clear, it does not provide a path to citizenship for these people. ” But Rubio continued his lesson.
Yes, it is. Indeed, yes… yes, it is. Obtaining asylum puts you on the path to citizenship. Once you get asylum, it takes one year to get a green card and four years to get citizenship. It is certainly so.
Democratic senators actually wanted an asylum highway to citizenship, but lost when Republican senators rebelled against McConnell’s donations. “Reforms to the asylum process that shorten the adjudication period from 10 years to six months are really important reforms,” said Democratic lead negotiator Sen. Chris Murphy (R-Conn.). he added:
That’s really thoughtful. It’s really well done…the basic idea of that reform is an important step forward.
Murphy then promised that Democrats would change Senate rules to create an asylum highway. “We’re going to change the rules…I’m talking about the Senate, where there’s a 50-vote threshold for passage.”
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— Clown World™ (@ClownWorld_) February 7, 2024
Surprised by Rubio’s clear answer, Tapper responded with a list of Democratic talking points.
senator [James] Lankford [R-OK] The bill is considered the most conservative border security bill in 40 years. Of course, this includes the 2013 compromise you negotiated as part of the Gang of Eight. The bill would have allowed the administration to temporarily close the border. That included funding for border wall construction. That would have made it even more difficult to apply for asylum. It added detention beds…and none of the Democratic priorities included in the 2013 compromise, such as a path to citizenship. Why isn’t it a Republican victory?
But Mr. Rubio learned from the 2013 disaster and was dragged along by party leaders in his third year in the Senate. He withdrew from the elite-backed amnesty push in 2014 and later published what he learned in “A Decade of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Heritage of Freedom, Security, and Prosperity.” I wrote it in a book titled “.
There, Mr. Rubio explained to Mr. Tapper the shutdown hoax.
First of all, the borders will not be closed. It not only creates the ability to close the border, but it also gives the president the power to say, “We’re not going to do that. It’s not in the national interest to do this, so the state of emergency is suspended.” By the way, even in such an emergency situation, I think we have to process 1,400 illegal immigrants per day. And after three years, it disappears.
The other thing is, it doesn’t mention the parole program, which is one of the loopholes that the president used to release all these people into this country.
Mr. Rubio then dragged a disgruntled Tapper to Mr. McConnell’s border bill’s asylum highway, saying:
You talk about asylum facilities, you talk about judges, you talk about immigration judges. Here’s the difference…The asylum courts they are creating cannot be overturned, not even by the Attorney General.
These people will have the power to grant asylum to people near the border.A lot of people don’t talk about it, but it’s right there [McConnell draft] Law. It will be so.
Yes, it’s good to change [asylum] It’s a standard, but it…ultimately ends up being applied by an administration that has proven unwilling to enforce immigration laws.
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It may now be in the hands of another government. [higher] Asylum criteria may be applied differently. However, in the end, once you hire this exile unit, [pro-migration border chief Alejandro] Mayorkas hired by Biden will be placed on the border… They will take power [to grant asylum] …And that is the path to citizenship.
“Asylum is the path to citizenship,” Rubio flatly told a shaken Tapper.
“We’re running out of time, so I’d like to move on to another topic,” Mr. Tapper replied.
Several Republican senators agree with Rubio.
Giving Mr. Mayorkas the power to grant asylum claims without going through immigration court is perhaps the bill’s worst provision. https://t.co/gxM7Pz3rWi
— JD Vance (@JDVance1) February 5, 2024
Perhaps the worst part of this bill, besides eliminating courts that normally handle immigration cases in states like Texas and transferring them to the D.C. Circuit, is that the bill also gives Mayorkas the power to grant asylum claims for the first time. is. Extended American…
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) February 5, 2024
look at the massacre here:
