If you believe that the best possible political outcome for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is that he establishes himself as the face of Republican efforts to reform immigration, but then Democrats ultimately kill immigration reform, then Wednesday was a great day for Marco Rubio.
While leading Democrats had hinted for days that they would not be supportive of a new border security amendment that Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, outlined last week, once Cornyn did finally release the actual legislative text Wednesday, Democrats not only rejected Cornyn’s amendment, they refused to even negotiate with him. “We cannot accept the Cornyn amendment,” Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., told Talking Points Memo. “I’ve told John that already. The way it would change the triggers would jeopardize the path to citizenship. You should tell the people you’re lobbying that that is not going to happen. There may be other amendments dealing with the border that we can accept but not that one.”
