“He and Chuck Schumer had basically a secret agreement that they would oppose all conservative amendments to the immigration bill," Rand Paul said. | Getty Paul joins rivals hitting Rubio on immigration

Add Rand Paul to the list of GOP candidates who are bashing Marco Rubio’s immigration stance.

The Kentucky senator said on Laura Ingraham's radio show Tuesday that Rubio has opposed every attempt at border control. “I would remind the country that Marco Rubio has opposed everything that we have tried to do to control our borders, to make it such so that people can’t come in here to attack us under false pretenses,” Paul said. “He and Chuck Schumer had basically a secret agreement that they would oppose all conservative amendments to the immigration bill.”


Paul was referring to Rubio and Schumer's work as part of the Gang of Eight, a bipartisan group of senators who unsuccessfully tried in 2013 to push a comprehensive immigration reform package. “Marco Rubio decided that his allegiance to Chuck Schumer was greater than his allegiance to conservative ideas,” Paul said.

Rubio has been under fire for his past work on immigration reform, especially now that the topic has become a conservative litmus test in the GOP presidential race. Rubio and Sen. Ted Cruz had a nasty back-and-forth last week over their respective track records on immigration, while other GOP contenders tried to horn in on the spat.

On Tuesday, Ingraham asked Paul about comments Rubio had made Monday night that Cruz and Paul had made moves to weaken U.S. intelligence based on their opposition to government bulk data collection. Paul fired back, focusing on Rubio’s record on immigration, which he said “weakened our defenses.”

Paul talked about an amendment he had introduced to the Gang of Eight immigration bill that had stricter restrictions on people coming into the U.S and charged Schumer and Rubio blocked such efforts to toughen up the legislation. “When he did this he also made us less safe because I think the border is a national security issue,” Paul said.

“Here now, it’s coming back to bite Marco because I think he weakened our defenses by allowing people to come into our country without sufficient scrutiny. I was trying to bolster our defenses,” Paul said.