Discovered: Rubio Pushed To Give Non-Citizen Aliens Access To Fiancé Visas

Observers will now have time to do what lawmakers couldn’t: Read the omnibus funding bill which Congress waved through.

For one thing, it fully-funded the President’s refugee resettlement operation. The inclusion of this provision is a policy win for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who told Sean Hannity last month that he’d “hate to use” Congress’ power of the purse to block Obama’s refugee resettlement program.

Conservatives commentators are suggesting the omnibus could also provide new insight to a Rubio presidency.

“The Ryan Omnibus is a good preview of Priorities in a Rubio Presidency,” tweeted nationally-syndicated talk radio host Laura Ingraham.

“Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is the new Rubio,” wrote conservative columnist Ann Coulter after the revelation that Ryan’s was whipping conservatives to fund and expand President Obama’s immigration agenda.

And now another provision has come to light in the Gang of Eight bill that could help to further define the policy contours of a Rubio administration.

Within the sprawling 1,200 page legislation, Rubio’s bill contained a provision—Section 2310 “Fiancée and Fiance Child Status Protection”— which would have dramatically expanded the controversial K-1 visa by allowing non-citizens living in the country to bring in not only their foreign fiancés, but also the children of their foreign fiancés.

The “Fiancé” visa has come under national scrutiny in recent weeks following reports that Tashfeen Malik, the Pakistani-born wife of Syed Farook, had entered the country on a K-1 visa. Together Farook and his Jihadi bride carried out the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. Farook’s presence in the United States— like his wife’s—was entirely the result of our nation’s federal policy of visa issuances: Farook’s parents were Paksitani immigrants.

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