Can American workers “cut it” in today’s labor market? Not according to an anonymous aide for Marco Rubio, who was recently quoted by Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker making the case for the Senate’s immigration reform bill.

“There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer,” the unnamed aide told Lizza. “There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it.” The “it,” here, is the sort of low-paying, labor-intensive work that Latino immigrants in cities and towns across the country are doing.