On Wednesday afternoon, Senator Marco Rubio took to Twitter to right the document on “claims that immigration reform offers immigrants free cellphones,” slamming such studies as “false and reckless.” Rubio’s Tweet linked to a recent press free up with the aid of his place of job, entitled: “MYTH vs. FACT: The Perils Of Pedding An ‘Amnesty Phone’ Fantasy,” citing the ‘false’ media stories and together with a transcript of his conversation with Laura Ingraham on The Laura Ingraham Show previous nowadays.

Quite a lot of sites, including The Shark Tank and Breitbart, reported past nowadays that the immigration invoice gives a taxpayer funded telephone to immigrants.


[Pictured above, The Shark Tank headline, April 17, 2013]


[Pictured above, Breitbart headline, April 17, 2013]

Senator Rubio’s press free up clarifies:

Along with improving expertise and fencing at the border, the “Border Security, Economic Probability and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013” features a provision to present rural residents and business homeowners close to the Mexican border access to cell carrier and phones so they are able to speedy report border violence to the police and the Department of Fatherland Safety. This provision was once included in the “Border Safety Enforcement Act of 2011”, according to the case of Robert Krentz, an Arizona rancher who was murdered on his property and did not be able to keep in touch in an instant with legislation enforcement as a result of his rural area. Giving individuals dwelling and working on the Mexican border the ability to keep up a correspondence straight away with regulation enforcement is essential to securing our border.

The Shark Tank up to date its put up, noting:

At press time of this article, Breitbart has no longer but updated its article.

The relevant invoice section, Section 1107, reads, partially:

SEC. 1107. ACCESS TO EMERGENCY PERSONNEL.
(a) SOUTHWEST BORDER REGION EMERGENCY COM- MUNICATIONS GRANTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta- tion with the governors of the States within the South- west Border region, shall establish a 2-yr grant software, to be administered by the Secretary, to im- show emergency communications in the Southwest Border location.
(2) ELIGIBILITY FOR GRANTS.—A person is eligible to receive a furnish beneath this subsection if the person demonstrates that he or she—
(A) often resides or works within the Southwest Border vicinity;
(B) is at greater possibility of border violence due to the shortage of cell service at his or her residence or trade and his or her proximity to the Southern border.
(3) USE OF GRANTS.—Can provide awarded under
this subsection is also used to purchase satellite phone communications techniques and repair that—
(A) can provide access to 9–1–1 provider; and
(B) are outfitted with world positioning techniques.
(four) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— There may be authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be important to hold out the provide application es- tablished below this subsection.

Click under for the clip from nowadays’s The Laura Ingraham Convey wherein Senator Rubio clarifies the supposed use of the telephones and Ingraham is skeptical of the need for such:

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