Drawing a sharp contrast to Sen. Marco Rubio and several other well-known Republicans, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has come out against the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill.
http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyJindal/status/354670625660477440 http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyJindal/status/354674632739127296Jindal supports amnesty for illegal aliens … but only after the border is secure. (The Gang of Eight bill grants amnesty before anything is done to secure the border.) In addition, he supports a big increase in legal immigration:
http://twitter.com/#!/BobbyJindal/status/354674156010348545This is going to help Jindal with grassroots conservatives:
http://twitter.com/#!/robertcostaNRO/status/354678572587286528It will be interesting to see if Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin and other amnesty supporters now try to smear Gov. Jindal (whose parents immigrated to the U.S. from India) as “anti-immigrant.”
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
Read more: http://twitchy.com/2013/07/09/gov-bobby-jindal-comes-out-against-gang-of-eight-immigration-bill/
