From Bloomberg Businessweek:
Hidden Hand: Enrique Gonzalez, Marco Rubio's Immigration Attorney
Enrique Gonzalez III
By Kathleen Hunter
June 13, 2013 Facebook Tweet LinkedIn Google Plus Email
Late last year, Marco Rubio called his old friend Enrique Gonzalez and asked him to come to Washington to craft the biggest overhaul of immigration law in a generation. Gonzalez had never worked on Capitol Hill, which was exactly why the Florida Republican wanted him. He’d spent two decades as an immigration lawyer in the Miami area, most recently as a partner at Fragomen, where he helped Carnival (CCL), Viacom (VIA), and other companies obtain visas for their foreign workers. (Bloomberg LP, Bloomberg Businessweek’s parent company, retains Fragomen.) Gonzalez took the job, and six months later, on June 11, the Senate began debating the 1,077-page bill he wrote with the staff of Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer (N.Y.). Now Gonzalez is working with Republicans on a Rubio-sponsored amendment to mandate border security measures. Without them, the bill isn’t likely to win Rubio’s support—or that of other conservatives.
The friendship between Rubio and Gonzalez goes back 16 years, to when they were commissioners for the city of West Miami. Gonzalez knows how to talk to Democrats—he used to be one—but more than anything he knows the immigration system. “He understands it,” says Democratic Senator Dick Durbin (Ill.), a bill co-sponsor, “and he brought a lot to the discussion.”
Now that's reassuring.
So, the Gang of Eight's bill was written by Sen. Schumer's Cuban Democratic immigration lawyer and was signed off on by Sen Rubio's Cuban Democratic (oh, excuse me, ex-Democratic) immigration lawyer.
The Gang of Eight's bill is more or less of a coup by Cuban elites.
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It's telling though what a boob this guy is compared to the guy that Schumer has working for him.
There's a serious lack of intellectual firepower in the Republican party. There's no question that the Democrats have much smarter operatives working for them.
Treason under our noses.
The Gang of Eight's bill is more or less of a coup by Cuban elites.
Hey, they took over Miami. Why should they stop there?
Miami used to be a sleepy WASP town.
"There's a serious lack of intellectual firepower in the Republican party. There's no question that the Democrats have much smarter operatives working for them."
There are plenty of smart Republicans but they tend to be disaffected libertarians or they're pushed to the margins (the 'alt-right', paleocons ect).
Remember, the media decides what is politically acceptable and the GOP follows instructions. So if you're playing on the other team's pitch every time, your best players will at some point say enough is enough and leave.
And that is what has happened. What you're left with is a bunch of half-wits who are there for the opportunism, rather than for ideals.
Rich Lowry just posted a link to a Politico piece which has excerpts from a forthcoming New Yorker piece. Less than 4 hours after posting on a Sunday night, when readership there is usually dead, it's already up to 450 comments. In it, a big Rubio aide - presumably Gonzalez - states:
"There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly."
The "amnesty and reward for illegal aliens plan" doesn't lose everytime it comes up because of anything its opponents do. It loses because its proponents are serious assholes. They have every nasty motive we ascribe to them, and then some.
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