Yesterday, TPM’s Benjy Sarlin took a closer look at Senator Marco Rubio’s latest delaying tactic on immigration: You’d expect Sen. Marco Rubio to be elated by the news over the weekend that labor and business groups reached a deal on a guest worker program, given that he’d identified their...
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Two Republican Senators playing influential roles in the immigration debate are demonstrating contrasting profiles in leadership this week. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is up for re-election in 2014 in one of the most conservative states in the nation, responded to the possibility of ads being run against him...
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Contrast on Display, as Rubio Waffles and Lindsey Graham Leads Two Republican Senators playing influential roles in the immigration debate are demonstrating contrasting profiles in leadership this week. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who is up for re-election in 2014 in one of the most conservative states in the nation,...
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WASHINGTON, DC – En el tema de la reforma migratoria, el senador republicano de Florida, Marco Rubio, tiene un problema: quiere quedar bien con Dios y con el Diablo. Este fin de semana Rubio dijo que era “prematuro” declarar que había un acuerdo entre los sectores sindical y empresarial...
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Maribel Hastings writes about how Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is trying to have it both ways on immigration.
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When it comes to immigration reform, Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida has a problem. In Spanish we’d say “quiere quedar bien con Dios y con el Diablo”—he wants to get along with God and the Devil. In other words, he’s trying to have it both ways. This past...
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Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) has joined the likes of Jeff Sessions, Chuck Grassley, John Cornyn, and Donald Trump (!) in the “slow down” caucus, last weekend petitioning Chairman of the Judiciary Committee Pat Leahy to hold more hearings, etc., before pressing forward on immigration reform. While the rest of the “slow...
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Last weekend, Marco Rubio joined the chorus of Senate Republicans asking Patrick Leahy to slow down immigration reform, leading commentators and advocates alike to slam Rubio for trying to halt the gears on immigration. At a time when the moment seems so ripe for reform, we must ask Rubio–a...
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No April Fools’ joke. At Talking Points Memo today is a great story about odd allies—and the friendship between undocumented activist extraordinaire Jose Antonio Vargas and founder of the Tea Party Patriots Mark Meckler. Vargas is the gay Pulitzer Prize-winning immigrant who first outed himself to the New York...
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