#QuestionAndAnswer :: TIME Magazine Sits Down With Republican Senator Marco Rubio
Republican Senator Marco Rubio addresses his desires for his party to adopt a new approach when appealing to Latino voters. The subject matter in this interview will be featured as a cover story in TIME.
Here’s a preview of the interview:
On why Republicans need to overhaul their attitude toward immigration:
“I’m always trying to remind my colleagues that if they lived in Mexico or anywhere in Latin America and their kids were hungry—every night went to sleep hungry—and your country provided no opportunity for you to feed them, you’re telling me that there’s nothing you wouldn’t do to feed them? You’re telling me you wouldn’t go anywhere there was a job so you could send money to them? I think the vast majority of people who enter this country illegally and legally do so because they’re looking for a better life, more opportunity for their kids.”
On what the Republican Party has to offer Latino Americans:
“I think the free enterprise systems speaks to their economic hopes and dreams. I think our defense of traditional family values speaks to their concerns that by coming to this country they found prosperity, and in the process lost their soul. Some families are worried about the fact that they brought their children here and their children are better off in every measurable economic way, and yet maybe the culture threatens the unity of the family, and the strengths of the family that they once had in their home country, and they wish they could have both.”
On Democrats’ inaction:
“Here’s the bottom line: they do not want to fix the legal-immigration problem. They want this issue around to use for their campaigns. They’re just waiting for the right time to pop these issues out because they want to use them for political gain. It’s the reason why Senator Reid, you know, pushed the DREAM Act at the edge of the November elections in 2010—because he wanted to use it as an electoral issue.”
On why he opposed the DREAM Act, which would have given high-achieving young immigrants a path to citizenship:
“I think for the path to citizenship, the support is not there. I think for the path to legalization there can be a conversation. I think most people would say that’s not amnesty, but it has to be structured in the right way.”
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