American workers get short end of Marco Rubio's immigration schtick

When Sen. Marco Rubio, the official poster boy for the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill, told ABC News viewers on April 14 that the legislation "gives nothing away," he was either lying or completely ignorant of the nation's unemployment crisis and how it would be worsened by giving work permits to 11 million illegal aliens.

If the latter is true, then shame on this "rising GOP star" who supposedly is sincere about fixing an immigration policy that was "broken" by a federal government that has refused to enforce its own immigration laws.  If the former is the case, well, in political terms that simply is "par for the course."

Seven million jobs in the construction, manufacturing, transportation and service industries are currently held by illegal aliens while 22 million Americans can't find full-time employment.  And  those illegals, Rubio is saying, would be allowed to stay right where they are, thank you very much.

We think that qualifies as a "giveaway."

Officially called the "Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013," the 840-page bill was filed April 17 while you slept.  Why, after months of touting how this bill promoted as the final word in ending illegal immigration, did its supporters choose to scurry around in the shadows rather than sound the trumpets in broad daylight? 

The bill's summary is 17 pages in length, but we think its contents can adequately described in six words:

 It puts the screws to American workers.

It also allows the greedy business community  to maintain its endless supply of cheap foreign labor, and the Democratic Party gets millions more voters. (Don't tell the Republicans that, OK?)

A brief Rubio primer is in order here:

• As Florida House Speaker, he twice blocked bills aimed at requiring employers to use the federal E-Verify program that assures them that new hires are authorized to work here. 

• When he was campaigning for his Senate seat, Rubio said he opposed amnesty.

• Wasn't it only recently that  Rubio said he would oppose any comprehensive immigration reform legislation that didn't put enforcement first?

If this is starting to sound like Rubio's top priority is "doing the right thing" for illegal aliens and their allies rather than what's best for the American people, you are on to something.  You can see an excellent NumbersUSA analysis of the senator's amnesty shuffle here.

This bill not only relegates enforcement to mere promises, it immediately gives work permits to illegals, including the already mentioned 7 million.  It also has the potential of doubling annual legal immigration levels to 2 million people, the majority of them nowhere near being rocket scientists.  Good news for the nation's native-born working poor!

If you are among those unemployed citizens with high-tech backgrounds or have children aspiring to enter any of the so called STEM fields, the bill also has something for you.  Good luck.

If Rubio ever was for enforcement and protecting American workers, you'd be hard-pressed to come up with some concrete examples.  Don't forget that he also told  CBS' "Face the Nation:

"They (illegal aliens) are here now and they are going to be here for the rest of their lives." (Emphasis added)

And bringing home regular paychecks, if Rubio and his fellow gang members have their way.