Submitted by: Donald Hank
Marco Rubio’s Deceptive Amnesty Ad
CIS fact-checks claims about Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON, DC (May 15, 2013) — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) appears in a new television advertisement designed to promote the immigration bill currently being debated in the Senate. The 60-second spot calls the proposal “conservative immigration reform” and is intended to make amnesty appealing to Republican voters. Partisan politics aside, the ad is misleading on a number of counts, as outlined in a new Center for Immigration Studies analysis.The ad was produced by “Americans for a Conservative Direction”, the Republican front group of the "FWD.us" lobbying organization, founded by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The ad includes a number of misleading claims, including that the bill has “tough border triggers” and “no giveaways for law breakers”. At one point, Sen. Rubio claims the bill "puts in place the toughest enforcement measures in the history of the United States, potentially in the world".
The CIS analysis of the ad is at: http://cis.org/rubio-deceptive-amnesty-ad
