Donkey-eared Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants has his eyes on 2028. He ain't convinced that his boss, the current Moron-in-Chief, will run an unconstitutional third term.
Therefore, he has to begin demarcating himself from the whole MAGA pile of horse manure if he wants to win over the repentant republicans, the ulcerated independents, and of course perhaps some democrats. He is deeply uncomfortable with his blind subservience to the Dear Leader. It showed when he sat frozen like a deer in the headlights and did not participate in the public stoning of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the oval office on February 28, 2025.
For one, he needs to distance himself from JD Vance, the current VP who wants to be P in 2028. But more importantly, Catholic "dark-skinned" immigrant-hailing Rubio has to begin "appearing" to disagree with the Orangutan in the White House, and he knows that Florida and other states with large Spanish-speaking voter populations will not forgive him for being complicit with the ongoing persecution of Latin-American immigrants by white anglo-saxon protestant fascists and xenophobes.
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Marco Rubio Splits With Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi on Due Process
Will Neal
Sun, April 27, 2025
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/Getty Images
Secretary of State Marco Rubio forgot the Gospel According to Donald Trump on Sunday by admitting that anyone on U.S. soil is entitled to a fair hearing before being removed from the country.
“Yes, of course,” Rudio said in response to the host’s question of whether the Fifth Amendment still applies under Trump during his morning interview with MSNBC. “That’s what the law says!”
Perhaps conscious of having contradicted the latest White House statements and directives on the matter, he then scrambled to tell the network that “if you’re in this country illegally, you have no right to be here and you must be removed.”
Rubio’s statements to MSNBC directly contradict Trump’s insistence that “we cannot give everyone a trial” when it comes to forced removals from the U.S. / Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
“Somehow over the last 20 years, we’ve completely lost this notion, or somehow completely adopted this idea, that, yes, we have immigration laws, but once you come into our country illegally, it triggers all kinds of rights that can keep you here indefinitely,” he said.
On April 21st, the Republican president posted to Truth Social that “we cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” contravening the Constitution’s 233-year-old provisions that “no person shall be [...] deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Earlier on Friday, a leaked copy of official guidance from Attorney General Pam Bondi also revealed federal authorities are now permitted to enter the homes of suspected gang members without obtaining a warrant.
Rubio’s comments come as scandal continues to mount over the illegal removal of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland dad-of-one, to his home country of El Salvador as well as Friday’s deportation of three U.S.-born children ages seven, four, and two from Louisiana to Honduras.
The Secretary of State has also undermined a DoJ directive from Pam Bondi instructing immigration authorities to remove suspected gang members without a warrant or judicial review. / MARCO BELLO / AFP via Getty Images
MSNBC host Kristen Welker asked Rubio whether the removal of those citizens violated their right to due process, to which he responded by describing coverage of the case as “misleading.”
“The children went with their mothers,” he said. “If those children are U.S. citizens, they can come back into the United States with their father, or someone here who wants to assume them.”
The Washington Post, which first covered the story on Saturday, reported that in the two-year-old’s case, lawyers representing the child’s father had filed an emergency petition on Thursday seeking her release only for the man’s daughter to be flown out of the country before the court convened the following morning.
“You guys make it sound like ICE agents kicked down the door and grabbed the two-year-old and threw him on an airplane,” Rubio said. “That’s misleading, that’s just not true!”
The newspaper also reports that both families were taken into custody during a routine check-in as part of a supervision program, but were nevertheless prevented by immigration officials from communicating with relatives or legal representatives before being deported on Friday.
The four-year-old in question is understood to be suffering from stage four cancer and to have been left without access to medication or medical care by the abrupt removal from their country of birth.
“I don’t know how much more of a blatant or clear constitutional violation there can be than deporting U.S. citizens without due process,” Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, told WaPo.
“Especially with some of those citizens being the most vulnerable of all vulnerable children,” she added. “Not just any children, children with medical conditions that are dire.”
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