Will Immigration Reform Kill Rubio's Presidential Chances?

Townhall.com ^ | April 9, 2013 | Byron York

[mquinn]

“...his natural born allegiance was to the sovereign nation of Cuba”

This is just so utterly ridiculous that it must be trolling.

[Verginius Rufus]

From what I have seen of Ted Cruz, he’s much more impressive than Rubio. Unfortunately the “natural born citizen” question is even more acute in his case because he was born in Canada (where his parents were temporarily living) and his father (a Cuban immigrant) did not get around to becoming a US citizen until many years after Ted was born.

[Dagnabitt]

Enough patriots in Congress were able to kill McCain’s monster amnesty bill he wrote with fellow immigration leftist Ted Kennedy 7 or so years ago.

Don’t think there are enough patriots left on Capital Hill, however, to stop the national betrayal this time by Kennedy’s open-border successor - Marco Rubio.

[WhiskeyX]

“...his natural born allegiance was to the sovereign nation of Cuba”

This is just so utterly ridiculous that it must be trolling.

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If anyone is trolling here, it must be you given your totally baseless attempt at ridicule. Here is an excerpt of a Cuban Constitution defining a Cuban citizen at birth, i.e. a natural born citizen of Cuba whose parents include at least one Cuban citizen parent. Marco Rubio was born abroad from Cuba with TWO cuban citizen parents. Consequently, Marco Rubio was born owing allegiance to the sovereign nation whose citizenship his parents continued to claim.

Constitution of the Republic of Cuba, 1992

ARTICLE 28. Cuban citizenship is acquired by birth or through naturalization.

ARTICLE 29. Cuban citizens by birth are:

a) those born in national territory, with the exception of the children of foreign persons at the service of their government or international organizations. In the case of the children of temporary foreign residents in the country, the law stipulates the requisites and formalities;

b) those born abroad, one of whose parents at least is Cuban and on an official mission;

c) those born abroad, one of whose parents at least is Cuban, who have complied with the formalities stipulated by law;

d) those born outside national territory, one of whose parents at least is Cuban and who lost their Cuban citizenship provide they apply for said citizenship according to the procedures stated by law;

e) foreigners who, by virtue of their exceptional merits won in the struggles for Cuba’s liberation, were considered Cuban citizens by birth.

[Dante3]

Anyone who supports amnesty, but whatever name, will not get my support. It is obvious that amnesty will only harm this country.

[TomasUSMC]

Rubio could have said....the Law of this Land has been much more lenient than that of Mexico. America has allowed those here illegally to partake in our dream without respecting our American Dream. This is not a Country if it does not have borders, and if this is not a Country then there will be no America to help keep freedom alive in this world.....so on and so forth....instead

he just used code words for AMNESTY. Well he maybe should just concentrate on his water jokes.

[TomasUSMC]

following the patterns is not leadership, leadership is leading and the patterns then change. Reagan was painted as a waco nuclear war loving cowboy nut. He changed the pattern.