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St. Pete Times’ Ginned Up Marco Rubio Illegal Immigration Controversy
May 28, 2011
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Fuller and a great many other people fail to realize something very simple which Marco Rubio has been saying all along. The Republicans are NOT against immigration. We are just against ILLEGAL immigration.
What a novel concept: an elected official who supports following the law!
You are 100% correct. Totally manufactured. I have seen Dem-leaning journalists use this tactic more and more often. Expect it to be employed right up through the 2012 elections.
True Legal immigration is fine, but those who come in Illegally have disrespect for our laws. They are taking up jobs that our own American Families need. They should all be returned to where they came from and if they want to come back apply through legal Channels or do not come back peroid.
As a person of Hispanic heritage, it is insulting that people would reward illegal aliens by first claiming they are immigrants instead of criminals who broke the law. The biggest injustice is they steal identities, jobs, while gaining an education and health care at the expensive of a legal poor minority or any citizen for that matter. Yet the Liberals court their illegal votes, therefore making this a race issue, when in reality they are being racist while breaking laws in order to steal these elections while creating socialism.
Taking words out of context is a cheap shot…..
Dr. Swier has asked me to return to Red County. My leaving the first time was because you censored what I wrote in the Miami Red County edition and I wouldn’t tolerate it. The last article I wrote was about the Cuban animal sacrifice practice in a religion known as Santeria.
The only action I ever saw Rubio take in regards to illegal immigration was when he blocked the six immigration bills in the Florida Legislature in 2008.
The Florida Hispanic Caucus continually states their opposition to immigration control laws as being racial and draconian. Am I wrong or can you actually name an Hispanic in the state House that openly supports state immigration laws?
The same goes for the black legislators. Do they not know the people most hurt by illegal immigration are low income legal blacks and Hispanics? If I were a racist as you try to imply then why would I care whether legal blacks and Hispanics are beat out of jobs by illegal aliens?
Next time you interview Rubio ask him him if there continues to be a need for the Cuban Adjustment Act and why?
Judge the walk, not the talk. Marco, much like Haridopolos, prove they can straddle a very thin line while keeping their hands clean. Trust is quite another issue.
Why no definitive plain english statement from Rubio?
Jeb would not be in his corner if he truly, in his heart, was for absolute enforcement of the law period. It’s a fairly simple issue after all.
I’m not a consumer of Marco lite.
I have long since considered the St Pete Times to be a communist paper and make no bones about calling it such. Ever since GW Bush’s second run for the presidency and the way that was covered in such a biased way, I wouldn’t buy or read that paper on a bet. Things apparently haven’t changed.
Since we’re talking about name calling, how ’bout Mr. Fuller being renamed “Fuller Crap”?
I guess it bugs him that not all Hispanics need to kiss the ring of the Left and beg for any
crumbs they may choose to toss our way, much as the Left viciously attacks Blacks who
are self reliant like Allen West. The St. Pete TImes is a liberal ragsheet and quite inept,
as are most Leftist entities. I recall their pathetic circling of wagons to defend the feckless, incompetent St. Pete Police and prosecutor who totally blew the Jessica Lunsford case and whose dereliction of duty prolonged the poor little girl’s agony and led to her cruel death. Had these morons entered the trailer and done a search, Jessica was probably still alive and would have been rescued. Instead she was left there and the 3 POS white trash losers who aided her killer were never prosecuted. It is this type of crap
the the SPT defends, which speaks volumes.
I believe E Verify was an important piece of legislation and it should have been passed. But I am told the reason it was not passed was due to the overwhelming support the Latino’s should against the bill. People were bused in by the tons to fight against passage of the bill. In my opinion (if this is true) it was the people of Florida that dropped the ball. After all this time Floridians and people all over the country must know that when issues like this come up the opposition will not hesitate to bus people from all over the country to fight. Until the other side realizes they too must do the same thing they will continue to lose these battles. When I last visited Tally to do lobbying I can’t tell you how many legislators asked us to please come back. They said the only voices they hear are the unions and anti-tea party voices and if this is all they see and hear then they are going to make decision based on who comes and makes the most noise. We can’t stop these bills by making phone calls only. We must get out of our homes and take the trip to our state capitol and let them know how WE the legal citizens of America feel about upholding our laws and our Constitution. I also believe Marco Rubio should have made his presence and his feelings about E Verify crystal clear to Floridians.
As a native Miamian, now lifing in Central Florida, I enjoyed for many years the best of Cuban culture and many, many Cuban American friends! Cubans are not here illegally, and as such none of my friends, nor the majority of Cuban Americans (just as the majority of other American ethnic groups) support illegal immigrants (latino or otherwise)!
To me it is extremely disrespectful and anti-Cuban to lump all Cuban Americans together as if they all think the same! While generally speaking, they are in large part responsible for building Miami-Dade to the Metropolis of today, there are of course those who have not contributed to a positive end! Just as in families, no two people are exactly alike, likewise, no single ethnic group thinks the same!
For many years, The St. Petersburg Times, along with the Miami Herald, are known for leftist bias, and liberal partisanship, as well as for spinning truth.
We don’t have secure borders for the same reason we haven’t ended employment opportunities for illegal aliens in Florida by passing mandatory E-Verify.
Our fellow Republicans want to keep the flow of illegal aliens coming into the country so the special interest groups have their cheap illegal labor to the detriment of the legal businesses, legal workers, and the taxpayers. The same dirty lobby money that is spread around in Washington ensuring our borders are open has been spread around in Florida.
It’s convenient for State officials to shirk their duty by blaming the Feds. Our borders will never be secure as long as the job magnet remains that brings illegal aliens into our state. It’s the responsibility of every level of government to protect the citizens and our state leadership has a track record of putting the interest of illegal aliens and the criminal employers that hire them ahead of law abiding citizens.
In the last decade Republicans have controlled the Florida State Legislature and controlled the Governor’s office. During that time .with a wink and a nod they have allowed 750.000 illegal aliens to reside and work in Florida and now the negative fiscal impact to Floridians is a staggering 5.5 billion dollars. In the last three years the Republican House and Senate leadership have blocked 28 illegal immigration bills. at the committee level.
Senate President Mike Haridopolos is the latest culprit. Claiming publicly he supported mandatory E-Verify and working behind the scenes to ensure no legislation was passed.. He scraped a good e-verify bill, SB518 in favor of a committee bill SB 2040, drafted by anti enforcement zealot Senator Flores. When things got too hot for her, he placed Senator JD Alexander in charge. Senator Alexander is CEO of ALICO. ALICO owns 140,000 acres of agricultural land and probably employees through third parties more illegal aliens than any other company in Florida. When Mike Haridopolos put foxes in charge of the hen house, the results were guaranteed.
E-Verify protects the jobs of legal workers, I find it ironic that these politicians come to the citizens every so many years to ask us to hire them for another job, when they haven’t made it a priority to protect our jobs or our tax dollars. Things will never change until we say no, we’ve had enough.
Rubio will never oppose illegal immigration as long as big business wants it because his corporate funding will then dry up making it harder for him to keep his cushy job.
All Floridians need to get behind Marco Rubio. Yes, he is pretty young (unlike a lot of us here in the Sunshine State) but his principles, ideals, and vision of the future of our great state and this great country are what true Americans beleive in and stand for. There is no contraversy with respect to immigrants……..either you come here legally and are welcomed or you sneak across the border and are by definition ‘illegal’. Most Americans are for legal immigration for people from all over the world as is Senator Rubio. However, when you break our laws, defile our borders, smuggle women and children in the back of a truck, smuggle drugs, break our laws, kill our citizens, dump tons of your trash at our borders then it’s time to say ‘enough is enough’ and that ‘you’re not welcome here’! All of you Central American trash need to go home. We can’t afford you and we don’t want you. Senator Rubio knows this and supports all means of ‘legal’ immigration but not the illegal passage of criminals to our country!
Don’t take the “bait’,Marco…
Turn around & look because…”WE THE PEOPLE” are still behind you…
We have something that the left does not have…A LOVE for THIS Country..& with it WE Pledge:
OUR LIVES
OUR FORTUNES
OUR SACRED HONOR!!
Happy Memorial Day…WE Remember & WE WILL NEVER FORGET! I Will be remembering my father-in-law who landed on D-Day…& my Uncle who fought in Korea
Am Israel Chai & Long Live The USA!!
Marco Rubio at this point as a State and U.S. Senator does not have a record on immigration. Lets stop the celebration of politicians like they are on the magazine cover of the cash register rack.
The Tea Party Media Leaders who yelled “vote em back in and hold their feet to the fire”,has not done what they said getting the “T,P, Candidates” re-elected. We can start by asking the 3 quoted group leaders mentioned above,was theri groups founded and organized by GOP Politicians and Consultants or Common People taking their political process back ?
Can anyone say the Tea Party Movement was hi-jacked ? The Democrats have tried to split the the Tea Party Movement with unfounded lies that can ot be proved in the best imgination.We need to worry about the GOP who saw the writing on the wall and decided they need to get the pen and write it themselves.
Senator Marco Rubio needs to do what the People hired him to do.
Not all Tea Party supporters agree with Danita Kilcullen! Anyone who knows me… They know I’m a supporter of “The Fort Lauderdale Tea Party” and they can see my picture down below with the group. But I must say I disagree with Danita on this going after Marco on Immigration so early in the game. As I and others who have told her a thousand times Marco has been strongly against Amnesty he supports E-Verify and Marco supports us closing down the boarder and is against the Dream Act as well. And by doing so he has been catching flack from his own Hispanic community but he still has not backed down! Marco has only been in office for about 5 months or so and he is fighting Obama on the debt the economy, Israel etc… Even Allen West who is a hard liner on this issue has not come up with any bills yet to combat illegal immigration. So should we attack Allen? No. Of course not! Danita, Let them do their job handling one thing at a time the right way. They have their hands full. And when Obama brings up all this immigration/Amnesty to the or front then and only then I say lets judge Marco and everyone up their in D.C. on how they handle these types of issues. GEEEESH!!!!
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I simply do not read the St Pete Times and now I have added the Tampa tribune to that same list of misinformation, left-leaning propaganda rags of Liberal media outlets that have no journalistic integrety or honesty.
The fact is, we have NOT had a conservative Governor for the last 10 years, as Jack Olivier states while trying to pass the buck here.IE; Charlie Crist. Also, the Hispanic Caucus the basically stopped E-Verify in it’s tracks has exactly how many Republicans on it again? Yes the other key to that equation was the lobbyists that fought the E-Verify bill.
My family immigrated to America in the late 1800,s. I am a seventh generation American. I,m not a Finnish -American, but just an American, even though my Dad’s people came from Finland centuries ago. Yet today we are supposed to respect people who put long ago nationalities before the word American in their stated name, such as the millions of African-Americans who have never stepped foot in Africa, etc. Their parents were Americans and their grandparents and so on, yet they feel the need to be called African Americans.Why not call themselves American-Africans then? IMO this is how they are blurring the lines between legal immigrants, illegal immigrants and naturalized American citizens whom were born in another country. Thus we see people “lumping” them all together at times.Legal immigrants who worked hard to come to America and paid their dues, rarely want to be called anything other than American- maybe like say Americans of Asian heritage- because if you come here not wanting to be American, why come at all?
I respect people who immigrate here and say they are now simply Americans. That tells me they believe in our Laws, Constitution and our freedoms they supposedly wanted for themselves when they worked so hard to come here. This is the difference between them and illegal criminals. Illegals overstaying visa’s or crawling into the U S in the dead of night do not respect American values, simply by the action of entering or staying here illegally,and they are also criminals breaking the law. They give LEGAL immigrants a bad rap, and for this I will never respect any criminal-immigrant who is in America illegally, period. The very concept of having a Hispanic caucus in our government that favors any one race or nationality of people over another to push an agenda is also illegal at its base- Liberty and justice for all does not mean activist groups( hiding as caucuses) bullying representatives in our Congress, at the State or Federal level. Where is the Italian caucus? The Polish caucus? The White caucus? How about the Florida Cracker caucus? ( they were original Florida cowboys, btw, not based on the color of their skin.)
Democrats and the media love to ruminate about open borders to grow their utopian socialist society.
If the socialist life is so wonderful, why aren’t they ILLEGALs clamoring to illegally enter Cuba, Venezuela, and the former Soviet Union?
Not all Tea Party supporters agree with Danita Kilcullen! Anyone who knows me… They know I’m a supporter of “The Fort Lauderdale Tea Party” and they can see my picture down below with the group. But I must say I disagree with Danita on this going after Marco on Immigration so early in the game. As I and others who have told her a thousand times Marco has been strongly against Amnesty he supports E-Verify and Marco supports us closing down the boarder and is against the Dream Act as well. And by doing so he has been catching flack from his own Hispanic community but he still has not backed down! Marco has only been in office for about 5 months or so and he is fighting Obama on the debt the economy, Israel etc… Even Allen West who is a hard liner on this issue has not come up with any bills yet to combat illegal immigration. So should we attack Allen? No. Of course not! Danita, Let them do their job handling one thing at a time the right way. They have their hands full. And when Obama brings up all this immigration/Amnesty to the for front then and only then I say lets judge Marco and everyone up their in D.C. on how they handle these types of issues. GEEEESH!!!!
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wow, the circular firing squad is busy. One tiny quote about Rubio warrants going out of your way to paint Kilcullen as a “peculiar choice” a person who shows “bizarre behavior”. Is that really necessary? Leave the character assassination to the F’n libs. Who needs the democrats, we go after our own side.
Let that be a lesson to all activists. Don’t talk bad about Rubio or you might end up on the Shark Tank sh*t list.
This article and some of the comments just makes me shake my head. Let me clear up a couple things for you people. First, Rubio was never a “tea Party” candidate. That was a total fabrication. It makes me laugh. The people, I won’t mention names, opportunistically showed up at the tea parties to hold their rubio signs during the election. They weren’t there before and they haven’t been there since…unless Allen is speaking of course. Second, we can all just stop worrying about illegal immigration enforcement in Florida. It is never going to happen. Ever. We can thank a long list of duplicitous republicans like McCollum, Rubio, Haridopolos and whoever the next one will be for that. Never going to happen. Move to a different state if it really bothers you.
As for people expecting Rubio to stick his neck out on this issue.I mean gimme a break. Rubio is doing exactly what Senate seniority is telling him to do. ie keep his mouth shut. I haven’t heard a squeak out of this guy since he was elected. Seriously, I never see or hear of him. He is what he is, he is driven by his political ambitions. He wants to have his cake and eat it too. Just like Haridopolus. Talk tough then deliberately don’t deliver. For anyone to think he was going to stick his neck into what happened in Tallahassee is absurd.
As far as the SPT article, sure it serves to undermine the right. But we do that to ourselves in spades anyway so why complain? Otherwise the article was accurate ad objective in my eyes. But what do I know? I don’t attend the republican meetings. lol.
we are screwed, deal with it. Oh yeah, and Obama will be re-elected because we can’t get our act together on anything. Too many opposing factions on the right. The left, they stick together.
Marco Rubio for vice president
Morals, principles and conviction
‘Hispanic’ is not a race. It means a person of Spanish descent. The Spanish are Caucasians.
The Great Governor Rick Scott AG Pam Bondi, and Senate Leader, House, Senate all are at fault for following the Crist – Bush WAY of slaves for hire screw the legal citizens cheap labor cheap votes mean more to all politicians look at Barack Hussein=Muslim Obama
No E-VERIFY for non State jobs equals SOLD OUT TO ILLEGALS=CRIMINALS and lobbyists for campaign donations and power.
Do not VOTE IN MIKE Haridopolos for Our Senate Seat in 2012
Senate President Mike Haridopolos is the latest culprit. Claiming publicly he supported mandatory E-Verify and working behind the scenes to ensure no legislation was passed.. He scraped a good e-verify bill, SB518 in favor of a committee bill SB 2040, drafted by anti enforcement zealot Senator Flores. When things got too hot for her, he placed Senator JD Alexander in charge. Senator Alexander from Lake Wales Florida Polk County Florida is a Sanctuary County in a Sanctuary State is CEO of ALICO. ALICO owns 140,000 acres of agricultural land and probably employees through third parties more illegal aliens than any other company in Florida.
Obama’s Organization for America at work trying to pit Conservatives against each other.
Dear John…
I can tell you one thing with a very high degree of certainty. Alico, prior to the unhappy,and some might even say worthless, members of the “family” going about the business of dredging up a judge that would nullify Ben Hill’s will, was a top notch company. Ben Hill Griffin Inc. did and does run its affairs in a strictly above board and absolutely transparent legal manner. They are professionals and run the company in a professional manner. It’s one of the best operations I’ve ever seen.
I’m no fan of JD at all, but I find it hard to believe that the wayward family members and their scions would need to jeopardize their new found holdings in Alico, or Blue Head, by changing the structure that created the wealth they coveted. Mostly, all JD’s momma and her sisters wanted was to have the control that daddy specifically denied them in the will. They would have broken up everything and sold it on the auction block and put hundreds of people out of work to get what they wanted. That is how much they respected their father and the empire he left to them. They have no real interest at all in the day to day operational minutia.
So what’s JD’s motivation? He is part of the greater agricultural family in Florida. It is a very tight knit community. He votes their interests first and foremost. Alico is a publicly traded company and I’d guess a majority of it’s acreage is in cattle. There’s not a big calling for a whole lot of illegals in cattle. They’re great a stoop labor and gathering fruit off the ground, shaking trees and such, but cattle is a bit more complex.
There are plenty of operations you might finger, but I believe you are way off base here. And, there are, FYI, far larger citrus operations in the state than the free standing Alico who employ far more contractors/crews as joint employers. Your statement shows a true lack of understanding of the operation you accuse. Alico stock symbol alco for a quote.
@ AREYOUKIDDING? Are you kidding? LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Common sense says why isn’t Haridopolos being brought before a committee, public included, to be questioned about whether his association with JD Alexander is or is not in conflict with EVerify and he also should be questioned as to what happened explicitly to the stronger wording of EVerify Bill that was going to pass and suddenly did not? These questions need and should be asked of him.
SHARK TANK QUOTE: “Alex Leary’s latest piece in the St. Petersburg Times’ on Senator Marco Rubio (“Tea Party wants to U.S Senator Marco Rubio to step into contentious immigration debate”) can best be described as yet another establishment media attempt to cause friction and/or division between the Tea Party and its preferred candidates before a real controversy has actually occurred.”
JACK: I agree with your assessment on Alex Leary and the St. Pete Times. It will get worse leading up to the election since they’re going to be teaming up with POLITICO.
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SHARK TANK: “Like many Tea Party groups, the Fort Lauderdale Tea Party finds itself at a cross-roads of sorts, and there are those activists within this group that are questioning Kilcullen’s bizarre behavior and are looking for new leadership for the group.”
JACK: I have to partially disagree with you’re quote, “activists within… are looking for new leadership for the group.” Unfortunately, there’s always the former select “few” within this and any organization, but most certainly all liberals and some RINO’s outside every tea party, that would look for her/it’s demise. That’s my “humble” opinion, but then again I’m biased.
Remember, there would be NO descension within the rank-in-file if Mike Haridopolos would have done his job as the “leader” of the veto-proof super-majority Republican State Senate. His lack of leadership in the 2011 session should be talked about everyday leading up to the election. The slogan should be “ANYBODY BUT HARIDOPOLOS TO RETIRE BILL NELSON”.
Keep up the good work uncovering the RINO’s within our midst!
GO WEST, RUBIO, & HASNER
Rubio wants English to be the Official language of the U.S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zael3k-I5z4&feature=player_embedded#at=34