I´m not sure I would classify this as an immigration reform proposal. It appears to be more of a solution to the bad US policy about dealing with illegal aliens.

What I have read about Rubio´s bill, it keeps the same immigration policies we already have and addresses what to do with the illegal aliens, so they can be properly documented.

I´ve read some of this proposal, and heard about it in various other places. Since our govt refuses to enforce the current immigration laws, what good will it do to create more laws? It may be a case of a bad solution for an even worse problem, but it appears to be all we have to go on. Personally, I´ll reserve judgement on it until I can get more of the specifics.

We we have a Federal government that passes laws and then refuses to enforce those laws. And they get away with it. Sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, but that is not fixable.

Sorry, but count me in as "anti Rubio." It isn´t rocket science and the fix is really that simple. Enforce current laws, control the borders, round up and deport EVERY illegal currently infesting our Country. Pass a retroactive law dealing with anchor babies. AND fix in law the difference between native born and natural born American Citizens. Rubio is one, and NOT the other....

Excuse me but anti-Rubio? Here we go again. If you think you can win an election against the Democrats, why don´t you run? Your policies are so perfect and enforceable, I´m certain you´ll be winning right at the start.

I am so sick of our base already ripping apart whoever our candidate is. It starts so soon.

Miss Lucianne has made it quite clear that we are NOT to engage each other in dialog. If that wasn´t the case #5 I´d tell you to "bite me." However, I´m trying to follow the rules and be civil.....

No. 6, your civility is duly noted.

You are right - I should not engage other posters. Let me rephrase what I was trying to say. If a person thinks they can win in an election against the Democrats, then that person should run. If that person has perfect and enforceable policies, they will have a winning campaign.

I apologize. I forget that "you" can be taken personally rather than generally speaking.

FAT: "I don’t underestimate the force of the hysterical anti-immigration voices."

Jennifer Rubin´s integrity is one inch deep. During the last GOP primary, several conservatives ran on practical solutions to the illegal alien problem. Rubin trashed those candidates relentlessly while pushing Romney, who was by far the hardest hard liner on illegal immigration. In 2008 and 2012, Mitt repeatedly bashed his Republican primary opponents as pro-amnesty. Not a peep from Rubin. People of good faith can disagree on these issues, but there is no point in debating folks who dishonestly misrepresent their own positions.

Sorry, please amend "FAT" to "FTA" ( for "From The Article ") above. And I hereby nominate #8 as classiest post of the day.

The Republicans should not vote for any liberal Democrat written amnesty that puts just about all illegal aliens on a "path to citizenship" that would allow Obama and the liberal Democrats to turn ten million or so legalized aliens, through a streamlined naturalization process into liberal Democrat voters, thus changing the political balance of the country and making it impossible for the Republicans to ever again win national elections. If the Republicans allowed that, they would be committing long-term political suicide.

Any legalization process should grant qualified long-term illegal aliens a conditional immigration status that allows them to live here and work and to travel to and from the USA as long as they comply with the immigration laws. Most illegal aliens would be satisfied with such a conditional immigration status.

To become a permanent resident and eventually gain US citizenship the legalized aliens must be required to meet all the qualifications for an immigrant visa as all prospective legal immigrants must do now, and then if they will to go on and apply for US citizenship they must meet all the naturalization requirements as legal immigrants must do now.

Unfortunately the liberal Democrats and their allied ethnic and immigrant rights groups will not go along with that, as they want all the legalized aliens to be made US citizens and be able to vote ASAP in order to destroy the Republicans.

Trojan Horse Rubio´s ´Blue State Project´ (aka amnesty bill) may get himself elected, but in the long run it spells extinction for the GOP and the much of Constitution. Imagine what a couple decades of absolute democrat rule would do... Amnesty, or no amnesty, Latinos historically vote overwhelmingly for Lefties, whether in America or in Central or South America. Hey Rubeio, why should we reward people that have broken immigration law, customs law, tax law, falsified official documents, and committed perjury in many cases? Are these your values, you big brainless phony! You seem to be on the same intellectual wavelength as your space cadet wife. Beware, the enemy within.

Where do the illegals live? AZ, CO, NV, NM, FL, VA -- aka swing states. This may be good for Rubio´s own career, but long term it is political suicide for the GOP. It is true that the GOP freed the Blacks. How many black votes does the GOP get these days? Bad analogy, I know, because Blacks came to this country against their will and were entitled to their freedom, whereas illegals deserve deportation/ jail sentences. But you see my point.

Well anytime the liberal Democrats have passed an amnesty in the past it also includes granting the legalized aliens the right to bring their foreign family members here for family reunification purposes.

Liberal media propaganda puts out an obviously low ball illegal alien population figure of 11 million people these days. But in reality there could actually be 20 million illegal aliens here now, nobody really knows. If that is so, and they could all bring their foreign family members here, that process could amount to an additional 11-20 million aliens entering the USA to reside permanently in the next decade in addition to the one million a year who now come under legal immigration quotas.

Most illegal aliens and their families are poor, generally uneducated low wage earners. Any liberal Democrat amnesty will eventually grant them access to all sorts of government financed income support programs. So if the liberal Democrats have their way up to 40 million foreign born people, most who are poor low wage earners who gain access to the social security retirement and disability programs, Obama Care, food stamps, and all the other programs that constitute the US social welfare support system. Who is going to be expected to pay for all that, and would such a mass inclusion of tens of millions of such new beneficiaries simply bankrupt the entire system? That´s the big question that the politicians should be asking.

Sean Hannity, Jenny Rubin, Mark Levin -- these people mean well but they are stupid. I mean dumb as in low IQ. The is in desperate need of some new blood in influential positions. These dopes foisted 8 years of Bush and helped deliver 8 years of Obama. In other words they are miserable failures and should be ashamed to show their faces in public. Now they are united in agreement to shove Rubio´s amnesty bill down our throats and finish the job!