OP, I expect more insight from you. I would have closed the borders and deported the lot of them but that´s not possible now. Rubio should be supported in his enterprise. He´s an up and coming guy and we need to face facts and fall behind him as he tries to bring some order to this mess. We are going to need him in the future. It will be interesting to see whether the Democrats complain that he is not natural born. I´m sure they plan to destroy hin before we ever get to that point.

I cringe when I hear the phrase ´ balanced approach´ just as I do with most words that come out of his teleprompter. This is the current replacement for the worn out ´ smarter approach´ that was used by these Marxists in the recent past. Constantly updating these catchphrases is yet another rule from Alinsky - not too difficult when you control the media. Rush points this out many times , e.g., ´gravitas´.

Barry no longer needs the votes so his incentive to fix immigration is now gone. It´s the same with his "affordable" health care, social security, green energy and gay whatever. Now he can start working on the real impediments to his lifelong dictatorship, like gun confiscation and the theft of wealth and property.

#1, I´m a Rubio supporter. I meant my comment as an addition to his ideas, not a criticism of.

Whenever I hear the words ´immigration reform´ from those idiots in Washington, all I think is: More illegals, zero enforcement.

I think most people might actually support a legal path for those who actually want to become citizens if it didn´t reward lawbreaking and included actual enforcement of the law.

King Obama The First doesn´t have to sabotage immigration reform.

He will only enforce the laws he likes anyway.

The "increased visas for engineers" is a disaster, an increased way to lay off Americans from engineering jobs. The hubbub for this by credulous and bought-off politicians is disgusting.

I guess I hope Obama does sabotage it.

Rubio is a fine speaker, but I´m not really sure he knows what he´s doing.

Obama wants all illegal aliens to be granted amnesty and be put on "a path to citizenship" so that in a few years all could vote knowing that 80% or more would become liberal Democrat voters. With all those new Democrat foreign born voters, it would be long-term politician suicide for the Republicans who would never again be able to win national elections.

As Rubio has said, illegal aliens should only be legalized through a conditional immigration status that allows them to stay in the USA indefinitely, to work, and to travel to and from the USA for as long as they comply with the immigration laws. Most illegal aliens would be satisfied with such a conditional legal status.

Then any legalized aliens who wish to become a permanent residents, the permanent immigrant status that leads to US citizenship, must be required to meet the same requirements for permanent residence that all prospective legal immigrants must meet now. They must individually qualify for an immigrant visa under the current immigration laws, and only then be allowed to apply for permanent residence. For any who wish to go on and apply for naturalized US citizenship they must meet the same naturalization requirements as all other permanent residents must do now.

That is where the political rub will come in, as Obama and the liberal Democrats will not go along with Rubio´s line of thinking here, as they want those many millions of legalized aliens to become Democrat voters ASAP, knowing that would change the political balance of the USA and destroy the Republicans ability to compete in future elections.

George Bush was only emboldened to push for his amnesty plan after the House had gone Dem in 2006. Thus the Senate became the battle ground where the House was just assumed willing to approve any Immigration bill coming out of the Senate

This time it is different. What comes out of the Senate - if leaning too much towards permanent residency for illegals (and the accompanied massive hikes in the taxpayers´ SS and Medicare liabilities for those illegals), will fail in the House. Congressmen are far less insulated from grassroots opposition to amnesty than are Senators - who often can rely on a huge artificial urban voting block to remain in office.

Rubio is a disaster. His plan may help him get elected in 2016, but that´s a long shot. What is far more certain is that the plan will cost the GOP severely in several Western swing states. This is why the stupid party is the stupid party. Amnesty is not only immorally rewarding people who´ve broken immigration law, customs law, labor laws, tax laws, and offen falsified documents and committed perjury, but it is also political suicide, long term, for Teh Stupid Party. Rubio is a disgrace.

Obama will trash any immigration deal. Holder has handed SS data to miscreants & fixed all the election data forever... he no longer needs their votes nor does any progressive candidate.