The Morning Plum: Foes of immigration reform pounce on Boston bombing

[ProSense]

The Morning Plum: Foes of immigration reform pounce on Boston bombing

Posted by Greg Sargent

There’s still a lot we don’t know, but it’s being widely reported that the two suspects in the Boston bombing — one of whom has been killed by police — are brothers of Chechen origin. According to law enforcement sources, the brothers entered the U.S. in 2002 or 2003, and at least one of them has been a legal permanent resident since 2007.

Some on the right are already pouncing on the news to cast doubt on the desirability of immigration reform. This morning, Ann Coulter Tweeted:

It’s too bad Suspect # 1 won’t be able to be legalized by Marco Rubio, now.

Bryan J. Fisher is a conservative radio host who rails about the “amnesty” that Senator Marco Rubio — one of the Gang of Eight Senators – supposedly supports in the form of immigration reform. Fischer Tweeted the following in response to today’s news out of Boston:

I think we can safely say that Rubio’s amnesty plan is DOA. And should be. Time to tighten, not loosen, immigration policy.

Meanwhile, over at the Washington Examiner, Conn Carroll, a Rubio critic and immigration reform skeptic, wrote that we still don’t know a good deal about the two brothers, adding that today’s planned Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the new immigration reform proposal should be delayed. “Today is not the day for an immigration hearing,” Carroll concluded.

Asked for a comment, Rubio spokesman Alex Conant emailed me this:

The situation in Boston is still developing and it’s too soon to jump to conclusions, let alone use the tragedy to make political points.

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Here's a suggestion, since the suspects were not undocumented immigrants or Hispanic, how about we proceed with immigration reform and block legal immigration from Russia/Chechnya/Kyrgyzstan?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Yep, there goes any chance for immigration reform. Let's send a couple

of trillion dollars and put a big dome over the entire country!

[Xipe Totec]

2. As if they needed an excuse, or facts would ever sway them somehow nt

[ProSense]

5. Yup, they're clowns. n/t

[hrmjustin]

3. These guys came legally so WTF!

[babylonsister]

4. I knew this was coming...sucks. nt