Marco Rubio is trying to use his so-far unseen “DREAM Act-Lite” to attack the Obama Administration. He claims the Obama administration is calling advocates and telling them not to work with him. The clip below from MSNBC gives the Democrats’ version of the battle. If Rubio is serious, he needs to show that he...
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Marshall Fitz and Philip E. Wolgin of the Center For American Progress just released this analysis of Sen. Marco Rubio’s proposal to grant limited immigration status to some DREAMers: Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) plan to introduce a bill to provide legal status—but not citizenship—for undocumented youth ran into an obstacle when Speaker of the...
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Politico reports that a new book claims that Marco Rubio’s grandfather was an undocumented immigrant. Here is a bit of that report: A forthcoming biography of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who is described by author Manuel Roig-Franzia as a “politician who built a political identity on his family story,” reveals an immigration hell for...
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Late yesterday, Florida Senator Marco Rubio met with three top Latino Democrats to talk about passing his watered-down version of the DREAM Act.  Rubio got together in a closed door meeting with Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) and Rep.  Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.). Rubio’s plan is woefully inadequate, but after the meeting...
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  Mitt Romney told a private meeting of wealthy Republicans Sunday that he intends to support Sen. Marco Rubio’s “Fake DREAM Act”. Romney has had trouble convincing high-level donors that he is likely to unseat President Obama because of his alienation of Latino voters. Romney told the group that “We’re going to be able...
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Last week, Republicans rolled out a proposal for what critics are calling DREAM Act Lite. Florida Senator Marco Rubio is the point-man for a group of Senate Republicans concerned that their party’s attack on immigrants will lose them the Latino votes necessary for reelection. The proposal creates a temporary legal status for some undocumented...
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DREAMers Across America, a national DREAM Act group, has written to Florida Senator Marco Rubio asking him to reverse his opposition to the DREAM Act. Here is their letter: Senator Rubio: We are here. We are in Arizona, a major Latino state and home of next week’s Republican presidential primary. We are in Florida,...
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A new ad questions Marco Rubio for defending the current crop of immigration hard-liners running for president. Rubio even pressed Newt Gingrich to withdraw an ad hitting Mitt Romney for his “deport ‘em all” position on immigration reform.
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At a recent appearance in Florida, Sen. Marco Rubio spoke about immigration reform. He seemed to express concern for the situation of the undocumented saying  “What do you do with nine to eleven million people that are here without documents? What do you with that population?” But, the Republican seemed to have no answer...
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Many of you know that Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio was under fire this week for distorting the date that his parents immigrated to the United States. His office has repeatedly depicted his parents as post-Castro refugees from Communism. In fact, his parents came, less romantically, before the revolution. While much of the national...
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