Rubio Answers Questions On Immigration From MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell

well just last week when you were at the Bloomberg breakfast time that I was attending a hosted by Bloomberg you talked about your own version of

the dream act and you told us your dream act alternative could get quote significant Republican support in the San then

on Monday you told the Wall Street journal that you weren't planning to propose this before the election out

at the time he had said that you would talk to a lot of Republicans are working on the details you still were planning last Wednesday to

propose legislation well again we're going to continue to formulate the idea on the question of the timing will be left up to what we say and what the circumstances are in terms I

because they they had the scars from years of combat over it but here's the other point I would make one of the arguments that I would use I would go to my colleague would say in both sides quite frankly and I would say you

I used to say well these kids want to go to college in September now that argument is gone that sense of urgency been taken away and

a lot of work to do now because of the way the president well it at the same time is it because the Romney campaign has asked you to back off no

absolutely not on the contrary I think we kept them up today what we've been working on but here's the other thing that's important when you do and

there anything we're missing here we want to be able have answers to every question we want to be able to have answers to every conceivable

%HESITATION you know circumstance that it would apply and we were forced on the process of getting that we've also in just a week ago have been meeting with stakeholders whether kids

that would be impacted by other people concerned about illegal immigration were trying to take as much input as possible and I think we're very close both

to having the very specific piece of legislation look again I hope I'm wrong but I'm concerned that the way the president did this last Friday by

politicizing going to make it harder to find a long term solution to a long term and when we talk about immigration %HESITATION

you have your own perspective as you write in American Sign you write that many people who come here illegally are doing exactly what we would do if we lived in a country where

we couldn't feed our families if my kids went to sleep hungry every night in my country didn't give me an opportunity to feed them there

isn't a law no matter how restrictive that would prevent me from coming here on page two forty eight you know you have that perspective and

arguably and that's one reason why many people believe that you would be a big addition to the ticket because

you can express what many people are feeling you understand it because you've left well again I think the point I'm making people

find it hard to argue against that your kids were hungry every night what isn't there there's virtually nothing you wouldn't do to help them out and we have to understand that that's why most of these people come here to

provide their families a better life but we also have to understand however that we can't be the only country in the world that doesn't enforce its immigration law we

have very generous immigration laws a million people a year immigrate to the United States legally no other country even comes close so we

have to be balanced but will only be able to balance them responsibly if we have the kind of %HESITATION we can de politicize this issue and

lot of Hispanic people fell they at the debates in the Republican Party was excluding them you have Mitt

Romney talking about self deportation you read Herman Cain talking that electric fences %HESITATION in your book he