Rubio hits Cruz on national security, immigration
Source: The Hill
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Sunday continued to hit Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his vote to “gut” federal intelligence programs.
“There are members of the Republican Party, that includes Senator Cruz and Senator Paul, who have argued that somehow the government is out there spying on everybody, so we need to gut these programs,” Rubio said on “Fox News Sunday.” “That isn’t true.”
Cruz voted for the USA Freedom Act, a bill that killed the National Security Agency’s (NSA) telephone bulk data collection program.
Rubio said government agents who misuse surveillance technology to spy on American citizens should be “fired and prosecuted,” but added that the bill significantly curtailed “valuable tools in the war on terror that allow us to learn more about the terrorists than they know about us, and allow us to identify them and potentially disrupt plots before they’re carried out.”
The Florida senator also went after Cruz on immigration, saying the Texas Republican at one point supported amnesty for illegal immigrants residing in the country.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/261047-rubio-hits-cruz-on-national-security-immigration
Forgive me for enjoying a slap-fight between children of Cuban immigrants fighting about which has less self-awareness about America's tradition as a cultural melting-pot.
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