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Rubio spokesman compares plight of illegal immigrants to slavery
dailycaller.com ^ | April 22, 2013 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 04/22/2013 6:26:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

The battle within the Republican Party over the so-called Gang of Eight’s 844-page immigration bill has often been contentious, but in recent days it has escalated.

Despite his plea for cooler heads to prevail in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing last, Alex Conant, press secretary for Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, likened the current plight of illegal immigrants to that of slaves in 19th century America.

Conant made his remarks in a Twitter argument with the Washington Examiner’s Conn Carroll, who accused the Florida Republican of “selling lies.” Conant replied by asking Carroll for suggestions.

After Carroll suggested scrapping a proposed assimilation bureau, cutting grants to leftist groups and other changes, Conant rebutted those suggestions by saying Americans have not “had a cohort of people living permanently in US without full rights of citizenship since slavery.”(continued)

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TOPICS: Florida; Issues; Parties; U.S. Senate
KEYWORDS: amnesty; florida; gop; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; republicans; rinos; rubio; slavery
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1 posted on 04/22/2013 6:26:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yup.

Toast.

Only burnt.

They were not dragged here in chains, they came of their own free will and are free agents, doing whatever they want. They drive cars, get government welfare, get jobs, send money home, have TV and internet.

Comparing a life like that to slavery is moronic. What a dunce.


2 posted on 04/22/2013 6:28:53 PM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mario Rubio is a leftist idiot.


3 posted on 04/22/2013 6:30:21 PM PDT by South40 (I Love The "New & Improved" Free Republic!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio is a servant of the RNC and the elite establishment.


4 posted on 04/22/2013 6:30:46 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nobody forced them to come here. They can go back any time they want to. No wall to stop them from coming or going.


5 posted on 04/22/2013 6:32:20 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: Westbrook

Oh My GOD!!!!!! Really? If I was African American, I would be pissed!!!!!! What a jerk!


6 posted on 04/22/2013 6:32:55 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rubio is going for the next dim-bulb-crat presidency.


7 posted on 04/22/2013 6:35:45 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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[Conant rebutted those suggestions by saying Americans have not “had a cohort of people living permanently in US without full rights of citizenship since slavery.”]

Actually, during the Reconstruction era there were large numbers of people—former Confederate soldiers and officials—who did not enjoy full rights. This didn't change until Democrats regained control of state governments in the South. After Reconstruction most southern blacks became second class citizens, a condition that began to change in the 1950’s.

8 posted on 04/22/2013 6:43:09 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m all broke up inside, Marco.

Now how about you resign, you babbling idiot.


9 posted on 04/22/2013 6:43:56 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here Marco, you've earned 'em


             

10 posted on 04/22/2013 6:46:04 PM PDT by tomkat (curmudgeons gonna curmudge)
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Actually, there is quite a bit of slavery that goes on in the guise of “illegal immigration.” It’s called human trafficking. Coyotes promise desperately poor people that they will bring them here and give them a better life, and when they respond to the promise of something better than what they have, they are sold into slavery. They are forced into manual labor or prostitution, and kept there by violence and threats.

And the Dems who stand against any kind of real immigration reform know exactly what they are doing. While they pay lip service to all the pablum about these being people who just want a better life for their families, they’re enabling real slavery.


11 posted on 04/22/2013 6:49:04 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There is nothing more irritating these days than a politician or their surrogates.


12 posted on 04/22/2013 6:50:38 PM PDT by Crucial (Tolerance at the expense of equal treatment is the path to tyranny.)
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Granting amnesty to 11 million criminal illegal aliens just so they can vote for marxists democrats is not a goddam priority and should not even be addressed by the Republican party in the Senate or the House.

Time to crush the GOP political class who are busy empowering criminals and its time to make class warfare a two way street and declare war on domestic marxists.

13 posted on 04/22/2013 6:50:54 PM PDT by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: Soul of the South
And a defender of Karl Rove's anti-Tea Party PAC.
14 posted on 04/22/2013 6:51:00 PM PDT by exist
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Slaves of old had to work long hard hours for no pay.
The so-called slaves of today are paid not to work.

15 posted on 04/22/2013 6:52:26 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Slavery” is what is being foisted upon the American taxpayer by forcing them to work to pay for the hordes who are here ILLEGALLY.


16 posted on 04/22/2013 6:54:47 PM PDT by South40 (I Love The "New & Improved" Free Republic!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every adult immigrant, legal or illegal, in this country is through FREE WILL. The slaves were brought through their FATE, not their free will. The EVIL slavers (and the EVIL society back then) enslaved them. The EVIL south fought for keeping the slavery system alive.

My point: immigrants cannot complain or compare their situation to slavery. Blacks(and Native Indians) have far more traumatic history than any other groups in the country, including voluntary immigrants who break law and whine.


17 posted on 04/22/2013 6:56:12 PM PDT by sagar
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Uh, US peeps working at a yob are tax slaves providing hours/workday of free labor to the gov't.

It's not right.

18 posted on 04/22/2013 6:57:14 PM PDT by Paladin2
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‘Slaves’? More like home invaders the police won’t arrest.
Remember this the next time someone starts mooning over Marco:
“He’s so dreamy!”
The GOP-e is setting itself up for something very unusual: a third loss to presidential dud. They’re that bad.


19 posted on 04/22/2013 7:07:10 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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Africans were FORCED into slavery, NO ONE forces those from Central America to come here, they come by their own choice...


20 posted on 04/22/2013 7:11:40 PM PDT by Fred (http://thebubblefilm.com/)
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