Fighting for Florida

On April 17, my colleagues and I introduced immigration legislation. It marked a first step toward achieving the strongest border security and enforcement measures in U.S. history, modernizing our legal immigration system to unleash strong economic growth and job creation, and dealing with our undocumented immigrant population in a tough, but fair way that is directly linked to achieving several security triggers.

While I believe this legislation will accomplish these things, I am also confident that an open and transparent process – one that engages every senator and the American people – will make it even better. I believe this kind of open debate is critical in helping the American people understand what’s in the bill, what it means for you and what it means for our future.

During my time in the Senate, many of you have written to me about your concerns with our immigration system. Today, I want to share this video with you in which I outline what this legislation sets out to do. And most importantly, I want to invite you to share your thoughts and submit your ideas below, on ways we can improve it.

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Dorothy Davis

05/05/2013 04:17 PM

You and the Gang of 8 are deceiving the American people by telling us your bill is the toughest border security and enforcement in US history and by claiming it is "not a special path" to citizenship, when in fact the bill grants amnesty to illegal aliens simply after Homeland Security submits "plans" to secure the border; you grant amnesty to criminals and gang members; you do not require illegal aliens to pay back-taxes; does not require amnestied illegal aliens to learn english and allows illegal aliens to sue the government for amnesty; halts all deportations for years...how much more of this nonsense are you going to cram down our throats? This country is broke and AMERICANS need jobs, not millions more amnestied people to take care of. Sen. Marco, read your Bill!
Verl Rice

05/05/2013 04:08 PM

Get rid of ILLEGALS Keep them out
Don't force US citizens to feed and support any who are here
It can be done
Robert Foster

05/05/2013 04:07 PM

Besides this bill being backwards, amnesty first enforcement second, like the 1986 bill. Besides this bill not being credibile that illegal immigration will be solved at all because it is has no gaurentees of enforcement much like the bill of 1986. These illegals are destroying my neighborhood one street at a time.
They must have been doing it in 1986. They very very likely will be doing it 10 years from now if we pass this bill. We really have to get rid of them. They are a poor contribution to our society. I live around them and I find them often lazy, self centered, lawless, and simply stupid. They are not paying the taxes we pay, not saving for retirement, not saving for their kids to go to college, so they live in our middle class neighborhood with us yet have slum class values and approaches to dealing with the community around them.
The legislation we put forth can not let illegal immigration continue. And it cannot let these people stay in a wholesale rubber stamp amnesty review. This hurts America. It is a curse that becomes more of a cancer when amnesty is granted. Lax chain migration laws based on poor candidates of admission like these people is a bad basis to move forward from.
All other aspects of the bill you have are based on benefits to America. The amnesty conponent is just an effort for more Democrat votes, cheap labor, or charitable giving. We can't afford the over $4 trillion added burden to welfare from these poor performing people.
The bill must be dismantled and passed in pieces in order of securing borders, enforcing the laws, grooming the process to stop the mistakes it makes (terrorists, overstays, fraud), then maybe we can select only the most verifiably qualified people of the illegals to stay but only with a verifiably rigorous process of no abuse. Sadly, the current administration and DHS can't do this. They have violated the law in this regard so this will have to wait for a new President and new DHS leader.
David Bartz

05/05/2013 04:00 PM

Mr Rubio
Let's see we have 9 million out of work
We have 12 million illegals
Seems to me to close the boarder and arrest the illegals and send them back.
Then they can apply for a green card and or worker permit.
NO more anchor baby's either.
Thank You, David Bartz
Theresa Walker

05/05/2013 03:52 PM

Now is not the time for giving citizenship to not only law breakers, but criminals, terrorists and whoever else comes across the border for a myriad of reasons. Now is the time to secure our border, assess what we do have, and go from there. Rule of law first. Laws already on the books enforced first. America first. We have our own problems and people who need to be taken care of first.