Marco Talks Immigration on The Mike Gallagher Show (4/30/13)

welcome to the Mike Gallagher show I'm glad you could join us Marco Rubio's story is a is an extraordinary one I've shared with you many times %HESITATION

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he is a %HESITATION a very popular tea party supported guy I happen to admire him very much %HESITATION

and he right now is a sort of many say in a little bit of the hot she trying

to convince conservatives that he hasn't been duped at least that's the way NPR puts in terms of immigration reform let's welcome on

the Mike Gallagher shale gas line senator Marco Rubio senator great having you back how you've been so well back always

appreciate your your your time you know I I I I I would be very candid with you as I know you'd expect us all to be here in this conversation I

want to support what you're doing because I support you I like you a lot admire you I

think you you you are a terrific leader and you you you you you have a great promise for a future for the Republican Party national

%HESITATION obviously you're getting a great deal of push back a lot of conservatives are saying or are trying to call your immigration reform %HESITATION

amnesty for illegals I was on a forum last night I hosted an event with Newt Gingrich here in South Carolina in

newt said let's anything that's eight hundred plus pages is problematic you know I mean why can't we have %HESITATION

doesn't have layers and layers and layers other exceptions and waivers and exemptions is

is he right well I think here partially right in essence that immigration is very complicated and very

overlapping on the problems that we have is one of the reasons not but we have a place that is so bad that it looked a little startled first

talk about what we have we don't respect what we have in place right now here's what we have a place right we haven't placing nineteenth century

immigration basically based on what you know someone who lives here and I you know that you get the car I don't know I'd states it doesn't matter what your talents or skills are whether there's a job waiting for you that

that legal immigration is so costly so expensive and so cumbersome today burden or not important racial

because we have no way to track before they overstated we have no way for employers to reliably check on the immigration status of the people they're hiring which

of the big mac quite frankly while there's been some improvement in some parts of the border other parts of the border remain unsecure

insecure those are all real problems they all have to be so and on top of all that you have eleven million living

here in the United States really going here violation of the immigration law you're not going to round up and deport eleven million people you

have to figure out what to do in that in a way that is an unfair is it rewarding very complicated issue so they have to be solved and they all not

one of them all right and and that's and that's where I I I mean again I'm inclined to try to give

going to be solvable by bumper stickers you know and and and a lot of us talk show host who