Marco Rubio mocks defenders of birthright citizenship, gets reminded why he's a U.S. citizen

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump lackey Marco Rubio decided it would be a good idea to mock criticism of the white supremacist in chief’s recent attack on birthright citizenship, tweeting Friday that “history will remember this as the week liberal politicians and legal ‘scholars’ transformed into constitution originalists”:

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Trump’s call to end birthright citizenship was part of his candidacy from the start, but he didn’t bring it up again in this manner until a week before the midterms. Aside from the basic fact that a president can’t overturn a constitutional right with an executive order those same Republicans oh-so-hated during the Obama era, Marco is also a, surprise, giant fucking hypocrite:

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/11/2/1809344/-Immigrant-son-Rubio-mocks-defenders-of-birthright-citizenship-gets-reminded-why-he-s-a-U-S-citizen

[Iliyah]

1. Never them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. A fucking hypocrite is right. I guess he thinks we don't remember the LAW. n/t

[Blue_true]

4. Rubio does not care.

Like all rightwing republicans, he considers his circumstances deserving of special classification.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

18. And he knows his followers are fucking idiots.

[Texin]

23. Not the Cuban Americans who have an identical history.

I'm sure they remember (or have been told by their elders) how they came to be born and naturalized in the United States.

[Blue_true]

3. Ooohhhh, that is called getting owned. nt

[MagickMuffin]

5. We should start a #youfirst movement

You 1st Rubio!

[oasis]

6. Sooooo Sen. Rubio's an "anchor baby"?

Trump must speak up about his status.

[onenote]

7. Rubio's response, if he offers one, will be that his parents were granted permanent residence status

before he was born. The focus of the repub attack on birthright citizenship is actually very narrow -- children born in the US to parents where neither parent was a citizen or had legal, permanent residence status at the time.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

21. In other words, poor silent working immigrants that....

pick our crops, process our meat products, clean our motel rooms, put roofs on our homes, do landscaping for us and cleanup work in our plants and factories, and that keep Devin Nunes' family dairy running.

And, they've been doing this work for many decades and paid their fair share of taxes.

Just THOSE people.......

[rocktivity]

24. Irrelevant -- legally in the U.S. or not, his parents WERE NOT U.S. citizens when he was born

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But HE became a U.S. citizen simply by BEING born in the U.S.

If the "problem" with the 14th Amendment is that is the children of non-U.S. citizens in the U.S. can become a U.S. citizen just by being born, the "solution" HAS to apply to ALL non-U.S. citizen parents in the U.S. -- otherwise, it can't possibly be constitutional.

So if you truly don't believe in U.S. birthright citizenship, either renounce yours or STFU, senator.


rocktivity

[Racerdog1]

8. Orange asshole lackey

Rubio is nothing but a tRump ass kisser. Go get a bottle water and drown your fucking self.

[OnDoutside]

9. Ouch ! I hope he gets plagued with that one.

[Cha]

10. rubio is too Fucking Stupid.

[alwaysinasnit]

11. And this POS thought he was better qualified to become POTUS that tRump! Two peas in a pods.

[duforsure]

12. The same Marco Rubio

Who included a provision in the omnibus bill in late 2015 , raising the premiums sky high for ACA insured people right before the 2016 election in Sept. then blamed the Democrats with trump it was a bad insurance, and was failing falsely. People of Florida want someone who'll do that to millions of people in their state are fools. He and Trump want to destroy all health care, and want now to destroy Social Security. They've already taken billions out of Medicare , and Social Security, but don't want people to realize that now before this elections.

[irisblue]

13. And Cruz? What about that cabrn?

[pdsimdars]

14. Now come on, you're trying to give FACTS to their house of lies.

[Scurrilous]

15. K&R

[ffr]

16. I hope this is on the nightly news tonight. Hilarious!

[Wounded Bear]

20. I'm sure Rachel could find a minute for this one...

it would work well as one of her "teaser" segments where they come out of commercial, she's speaks for about 10 seconds and they go back to commercial.

[marybourg]

17. Reading the 14th amendment as it's been read

for its entire existence is NOT being an originalist. It’s being a literalist.

[hibbing]

19. Only the best and brightest...too funny n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

22. Didn't you get the fucking memo?!

IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR! IOKIYAR!