Rubio Gets ‘Mean’ on Immigration Reform

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Mickey Kaus has some more tough criticism for the immigration reform bill and one of its chief engineers, Florida Republican senator Marco Rubio:

Rubio: Illegals will pay fines or be deported! Ambassador of Amnesty Marco Rubio argues on Powerline–or rather, “Marco Rubio” argues, since the words are  attributed only to his “office”**–that critics overstate the number of new immigrants who would be added by his legalization bill:

There are approximately 11 million illegals currently in the US, and many of them won’t be eligible for legalization (because they haven’t been here long enough, don’t pass background checks, can’t afford the fines, etc.) and will have to be deported. [E.A]

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