Florida U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio offered a measure of support for President Obama's first executive amnesty program, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, during a recent interview he conducted in Spanish this week with Univision's Jorge Ramos.
Rubio's comments mark a reversal of sorts from criticism he offered of DACA last year, and they also put him at odds with the conservative Republican base, which he will need in his corner if he hopes to win the 2016 GOP presidential nomination.
"But DACA, I think it's important not to cancel it from one moment to the next because you already have people benefiting from it." Rubio told Ramos in the interview, which was posted online and translated by Grabien.
Rubio did say that he believes DACA, which Obama announced in 2012 and granted amnesty to so-called DREAMers, should end, but only after immigration reform is passed.
"Well, at some point it is going to have to end, that is to say, it can't continue being the permanent policy of the United States," said Rubio, who conducted two interviews with Ramos: one in Spanish and the other in English. Ramos did not ask Rubio about DACA or immigration for the English-language discussion.
"I believe, if I become President, it is going to be possible to achieve immigration reform," Rubio told Ramos in Spanish.
That rationale is similar to what Obama has used to defend his implementation of DACA and his more recent executive amnesty program, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. Obama has repeatedly said that he acted unilaterally because Congress failed "to put a bill on my desk."
Critics of Obama's two amnesty pushes argue that his actions were illegal and unconstitutional.
Rubio's comments to Ramos on DACA are much softer than statements he made last July during the height of the flood of Central American unaccompanied minors.
"Furthermore, because the recent wave from Central America spiked after DACA was announced, it is in our interest to wind down this program," Rubio said in a statement released on July 24. "If you are not currently in it, you should not be eligible for it."
"For President Obama to raise hopes it may actually be unilaterally expanded is irresponsible and threatens to make this problem even worse," Rubio stated then.
Immigration will likely prove to be Rubio's biggest hurdle in winning the GOP presidential nomination. He and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are the two Republican hopefuls whose views on immigration reform are seen as most out of step with the conservative Republican base.
Rubio came under heavy criticism for his involvement in 2013's so-called "Gang of Eight" immigration reform proposal. If it had passed, the measure would have provided a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants as well as work visa options.
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True immigration reform would be to put pressure on Mexico to change. Mexico is the laughing stock of Latin America because they've got mineral wealth, oil wealth, hard working population and border with America and yet are still dirt poor because the leaders rob the place blind and get away with it by blaming the Gringos. and we have generally prospered by it instead of fixing it.
Mexico should allow foreign investment and find ways to remove the corruption like creating Amsterdam-like cities near the border where the drug lords can sell their wares to gringos without having to cross the border. Thus keeping the stuff taxable and in control and taking a lot of the risk out of the trade (gringos take the risk if they try to bring the stuff back home). You also, hopefully, get the Vegas effect where it is so profitable the gangsters stop killing each other because they don't want to derail the money-train. Then channel all that tax revenue into schooling and infrastructure.
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We should just start annexing Mexico. We have to clean it up either way.
Step 1. Declare drug cartels terrorist organizations, tell JSOC they have free reign to remove them from the universe outside US borders. Anyone and everyone connected to them is a target. A few years should be long enough.
Step 2. Put the US military on our southern border and tell them NOTHING crosses. Anything trying to cross gets a warning, then is a free fire target.
Step 3. Offer the northern parts of Mexico the chance to become US territories with goal of becoming states in 10 years. Mexican government whines and cries, gets Hellfired while on the toilet.
Repeat the process til we hit the tip of South America. Corrupt governments replaced with 10 years of an appointed governor while working to become an actual state, then move on from there.
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He's right in step with politicians and unions: Throw money at the "problem," watch it disappear down a black hole, shrug shoulders, call for more truckloads of taxpayer cash. Lather, rinse, repeat...
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I blame the republicans in charge of Newark public schools.
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Obviously he didn't give them enough money, he should try giving several billion this time. I'm sure there's alot of consultants starving and needing new $1000 suits.
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