http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2013/10/28/2843381/rubio-anticipate-abandoning-senate-immigration/
As a coalition of Republican business executives, prominent conservatives and evangelical leaders kick off a new campaign urging the GOP to take-up immigration reform, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) — the most prominent Republican senator to support an overhaul of the immigration system — formally walked away from his own immigration bill. A spokesperson for the senator said on Saturday that Rubioopposes conferencing a piecemeal House-passed bill with the Senate’s proposal in order to produce a comprehensive measure that both chambers could support.
His decision to abandon the policy comes after months of wavering and careful political calculation. The first-term senator at times tied himself in rhetorical knots trying to appeal to moderate voters while still courting the conservative Tea Party supporters who helped propel him to the Senate in 2010.
what i see happening is that the T-P unwittingly have released the kraken within their midst and he his destroying their plan as if he were a Progressive mole. i think he's done more to burn any makeshift bridges they might have had with Hispanics because they never stopped the demonizing and suppression, then the arrogance with witch he just like Cruz walked away, "no mas", throw a bone then pull it back because they tied a string to it.
you may have noticed that they have not kept any promises in 5 years except the one to destroy the Pres. , after this long you might thing it's time to crap or get off the pot.
p.s. they are still on the pot.
During that election, Rubio claimed that undocumented immigrants had to leave the country and re-enter legally if they ever hoped to attain citizenship.
By January 2013 — after President Obama won re-election with a broad coalition of Hispanic voters — he had joined a bipartisan group of senators hoping to overhaul the system through a comprehensive bill that included a pathway to citizenship and began actively courting conservative support for reform. As that group — the so-called immigration “Gang of 8″ — prepared to release the legislation that would eventually clear the Senate, Rubio appeared on NBC’s Meet The Press and painted himself as the strongest ally of reform, telling host David Gregory that he didn’t anticipate ever abandoning the measure.
Nine months later, Rubio has moved on. Below is a short timeline of the senator’s many stances on immigration reform:
JAN 14: BLASTS OBAMA FOR NOT ADVOCATING IMMIGRATION REFORM. Rubio tells the Wall Street Journal that Obama has “not done a thing” on reform and is likely using the issue to mobilize the Democratic base. During the presidential campaign, Rubio criticized Obama for failing to achieve reform in his first term. “His party controlled Congress for two years,” he told Fox News in October, “and they did absolutely nothing.”
JAN 14: SAYS HE SUPPORTS A PIECEMEAL APPROACH TO REFORM.Rubio says he would like to see “a comprehensive package of bills”—maybe four or five as opposed to one omnibus—move through Congress. “He says other experience with ‘comprehensive’ reform (ObamaCare, the recent debt deal) shows how bad policy easily sneaks into big bills. But adds, “It’s not a line in the sand for me.”
just to get you interested there's many more, IMO there was never any real intent ti do this if they did they would be relegating themselves to obscurity they are already in line to be the next new minority, to do immigration gives many more voters to Progressives because Lord knows they are not going to change so there will be no gravitating to them.
