Marco Rubio Quotes About Immigration

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Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.

Marco Rubio

Government, Immigration, Reform
Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

Marco Rubio

Immigration, Immigrants, Legal Immigration
I think there are some in the Democratic Party - not all - but I think there are some people in the Democratic Party that think that the immigration issue is more valuable to them unsolved. That it gives them something to talk about, that they can go back to Hispanic communities and make unrealistic promises every two years and win votes.

Marco Rubio

Party, Winning, Thinking

"Some Democrats see immigration inaction as expedient, Rubio says" by Gregory Wallace, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. May 23, 2012.
Donald Trump is a world-class con artist. He conned all these people that signed up for Trump University. Now he's trying to do the same thing to Republican voters. He's trying to convince them that somehow he's the guy that is going to stand up to illegal immigration, but he hires illegal immigrants, that he's fighting for American workers, but he's hiring foreign workers for his hotels, that he's going to bring back jobs from China and from Mexico, but, in fact, he's creating jobs in China and Mexico, because that's where all of his suits and ties that he sells are made.

Marco Rubio

Jobs, Fighting, Artist

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We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

Marco Rubio

Positive, Party, America
No. 1, it [amnesty for illegal aliens] demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process. It's a very clear signal that why go through the legal process if you can accomplish the same thing through the illegal process? And No. 2, it demoralizes the people enforcing the law. So I am not and I will never support - never have and never will support - any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks who have entered or stayed in this country illegally.

Marco Rubio

Country, Law, People
...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

Marco Rubio

Immigration, Amnesty, Grants
There are going to be stories of very young kids that were brought to this country at a very young age who don't even speak Spanish that are going to be sent back to Nicaragua or some other place. And it's gonna feel weird and I understand that. The goal here is to have an immigration policy that works. And if you provide a path for people to enter this country illegally and if they stay here long enough and pay enough in taxes, well let them stay legally...why would anyone come in through the legal process?

Marco Rubio

Country, Kids, Long

"Rubio now supports Arizona law, hardens immigration line" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. May 6, 2010.
It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal immigration system.

Marco Rubio

Running, Block, Broken

"Marco Rubio Calls For GOP to Chill on Immigration Rhetoric" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2012.
I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

Marco Rubio

Party, Thinking, Issues
This is the most generous country in the world when it comes to immigration. There are a million people a year who legally immigrate to the United States, and people feel like we're being taken advantage of.

Marco Rubio

Country, Taken, Years

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After a migratory crisis on the border with minors coming over that you're seeing start up again now, after all these executive orders the President has issued. More than ever we need to prove to people that illegal immigration is under control.

Marco Rubio

Order, People, President

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A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.

Marco Rubio

Law, Immigration, Bills

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I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.

Marco Rubio

Party, Challenges, Immigration

"Marco Rubio Calls For GOP to Chill on Immigration Rhetoric" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2012.
Even if we didn't have a single person in the USA in violation of immigration laws, we'd still have to do immigration reform, because our legal immigration system is broken. It's not good for anybody.

Marco Rubio

Usa, Law, Broken

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I think what's important for us to understand and there is a way forward on this issue that we an bring our country together on. And while I'm president I will do it. And it will begin by bringing illegal immigration under control and proving to the American people.

Marco Rubio

Country, Thinking, Way Forward

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What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.

Marco Rubio

Thinking, Years, Law

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The only people benefiting from the status quo in immigration [in the USA] today are the people trafficking human beings across the border, and the people who are hiring illegal labor for cheap purposes.

Marco Rubio

Usa, People, Immigration

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I want immigration reform to pass, I want people to be able to come out of the shadows.

Marco Rubio

People, Shadow, Immigration

Marco Rubio's speech at the ninth Republican Presidential debate in Greenville, S.C., www.nytimes.com. February 14, 2016.
The key that opens that door is proving to the American public that illegal immigration is under control. And at this point, that argument cannot be made because it is not true, it is not under control.

Marco Rubio

Keys, Doors, Immigration

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I think the immigration system we have now is terrible for the United States of America. We have a legal immigration system that does not work. It does not reflect the economic needs of this country in the 21st century. It needs to be modernized.

Marco Rubio

Country, Thinking, America

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Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Ted Cruz said that he wanted immigration reform to pass. Here's the bottom line. I tried to solve a very difficult issue, and we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid at the time, and then send it over to the House and have them, conservatives, make it even better.

Marco Rubio

Issues, People, House

"Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.
ISIS is a radical jihadist group that is increasingly sophisticated in its ability, for example, to radicalize American citizens, in its inability to exploit loopholes in our legal immigration system, in its ability to capture and hold territory in the Middle East, as I outlined earlier, in multiple countries.

Marco Rubio

Country, Middle East, Inability

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Immigration is not an issue that I read about in the newspaper or watch a documentary on PBS or CNN. It's an issues I've lived around my whole life. My family are immigrants. My wife's family are immigrants. All of my neighbors are immigrants.

Marco Rubio

Pbs, Issues, Cnn

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I believe we must study which changes must be made now that the immigration system has changed, because we are seeing, I believe, that at this time we are inviting people to come to the U.S. on very dangerous trips.

Marco Rubio

Believe, People, Immigration

Source: www.univision.com

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