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You will loose me at "comprehensive".

And I think that you will loose many others at the same point.

Bill 1: Seal the border.

Bill 2: Give them an option - go home and do it right or register now and start the process in 5 years.

Problem solved.

jc

Simple and pithy.

I like!

With the bill now being 24 POUNDS, who knows what is in it... and I guarantee that it isn't going to be pretty.

jc

Or, let me put it in Spanish...

NO.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/rubio-in-immigration-reform-legalization-comes-first-it-is-not-conditional/article/2531504

Fence, decriminalize, get to the back of the line, no benefits.

Am I clear?

jc

Marco Rubio: In immigration reform, legalization comes first — ‘It is not conditional’

June 10, 2013 | 12:36 pm | Modified: June 10, 2013 at 2:00 pm
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In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio said that legalization of the nation’s 11 million currently illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements. (Photo: Examiner file)

In a Spanish-language interview Sunday with the network Univision, Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican on the Gang of Eight comprehensive immigration reform group, made his strongest statement yet that legalization of the nation’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants must happen before any new border security or internal enforcement measures are in place, and will in no way be conditional on any security requirements.

“Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”

In most of his public appeals for the Gang of Eight bill, Rubio has stressed its enforcement provisions, saying that border security must come before immigrants are granted legal permanent resident status. What he has not stressed so much is the fact that the bill would legalize the 11 million almost immediately, after they have passed background checks and paid some sort of fine. That would happen before any new security measures are completed, or even begun.

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But on that he was very clear in his Univision appearance. “As for the legalization, the enormous majority of my colleagues have accepted that it has to happen and that it has to begin at the same time we begin the measures for [the border],” Rubio said. “It is not conditional. The legalization is not conditional.”

Here is an English translation of Rubio’s remarks. Here is video of the Univision appearance.

Doctor update

Well, the unending stream of good news has stopped.  Perhaps just a pause...

The bone survey showed three lesions  - right arm, left arm, and the top of my skull.

Kidney function was still "ok" but pretty close to the upper edge of normal.

So - still waiting on the IGD blood test to come through, and I have a bone marrow biopsy in July.

Scheduled a bone density test for later this month also.

The cancer shows up in the bones first - so yes - I am sweating it.

Now I have to go to COSTCO and prepare for an audit/EPA action/OSHA inspection/NSA anal probe...

jc