The reality of Marco Rubio’s immigration problem

By CONN CARROLL | JULY 15, 2013

National Journal‘s Jill Lawrence has a post up on “The Myth of Marco Rubio’s Immigration Problem,” noting that while Rubio has taken some “heat” for supporting a path to citizenship, “almost every other GOP 2016 prospect” supports a path too.

“Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is losing altitude with some conservatives because he’s the Republican face of immigration reform that includes a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants,” Lawrence writes, “Yet he’ll have a lot of company in the 2016 field if he runs for the GOP presidential nomination.”.... The reality is that the Schumer-Rubio bill is toxic among conservatives. Leaving the path to citizenship issue aside for a second, it creates a brand new government agency with the power to set wages for the entire agricultural sector of the economy. It also creates multiple slush funds that will funnel taxpayer dollars to leftist activist groups like La Raza and Casa de Maryland. There is nothing conservative about any of that……. But those Republicans most engaged on immigration are also those who are most informed on the issue and the most likely to influence their less-informed counterparts. And when any Republican finds out what is really in the bill, support for it craters…..To Read More….