{"id":10770,"date":"2015-11-09T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:58:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:58:49","slug":"washington-post-your-bias-is-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/11\/09\/washington-post-your-bias-is-showing\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post: Your Bias is Showing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"16491577129_5dc0ca31e7_b\"Last week I noted how commentators get confused over what on the surface appear to be contradictory statements that, when examined carefully, are not at all contradictory. One example was how a critique from the right of statements by Sen. Marco Rubio accused him of flip-flopping on the DACA amnesty for illegal aliens. I pointed out that there was no flip-flop because Rubio only supported ending DACA as long-term measure when it could be replaced by a legislated amnesty.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/i><\/a> on November 8\u00a0jumped on the same apparent contradiction by Sen. Rubio \u2013 this time in an editorial from the left \u2013 to label him as \u201ccraven\u201d in bending to pressure from the right. The paper described Sen. Rubio\u2019s most recent statement on DACA as \u201c … expos[ing]to deportation proceedings the\u00a0roughly 700,000 youths\u00a0who have benefited from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Rubio was in fact trying to play both sides of the DACA amnesty issue, he succeeded as demonstrated from the fact that he is being attacked from both the right and the left.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see if Rubio responds to this attack by further clarifying his support for a permanent amnesty for the \u201cchildhood arrival\u201d illegal aliens. The Post editorial might have had the objective of trying to provoke that response in order to undercut conservative support for the Senator.