The search for cognitive dissonance continues

This is the second in what may wind up being a recurring series

Marco Rubio got heckled yesterday at the Faith and Freedom (or Family and Faith, or Freeth and Famdom, something like that) Conference in DC, by a couple of undocumented immigrants calling for the protection of DAPA and DACA, the two executive orders that the Obama administration has instituted with respect to immigration (one defers immigration action on parents of children who were born in the US and who are thus US citizens, the other defers action on immigrants who were brought to the US as children). I’m reluctant to link to the Moonie Times like this, but it’s the only story I found that gets the part of his response that I wanted:

Mr. Rubio responded to the disruption by telling the crowd that is the difference between the United States and other countries.

“You do that in another country, you will be in jail tonight,” the Florida Republican said. “If you do that in another country, your family house will be raided, your businesses will be closed.

“In America, people have the right to interrupt a speech, you have the right to be rude, you have the right to be wrong,” Mr. Rubio said. “We live in a free society.”

Here’s where I wonder why the cognitive dissonance hasn’t kicked in: Rubio responds to the hecklers by noting how great America is, that you can interrupt a political speech without having your house raided and your business closed as in other countries. Except that the two hecklers were undocumented immigrants, which means, per the Great Marco Rubio Immigration Flip Flop of 2013, Marco Rubio either agrees with or is happy to enable the xenophobic wing of the Republican Party that would see those two hecklers deported if possible. I’m no expert, but presumably deportation proceedings would involve both the raiding (if not seizure) of those gentlemen’s houses, as well as the closing of their businesses, if they own any. They might even come in for some jail time while they wait to be shipped out of the country. You know, all that stuff that only happens in other countries.

I listened to Rubio’s little dust up on the radio in the car, and I couldn’t listen beyond the “we live in a free society” part, so I have no idea if he finished that sentence by saying “as long as your paperwork is in order.” But I do know that explaining how America has so many wonderful freedoms to two guys who you’re looking to deport should trigger some kind of cognitive dissonance.