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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