{"id":21417,"date":"2014-09-01T18:54:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21417"},"modified":"2014-09-01T18:54:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T22:54:47","slug":"marco-rubio-evolving-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21417\/marco-rubio-evolving-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Evolving on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, pivot to the next best alternative.<\/p>\n<p>That seems to be the strategy used by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) as he positions himself for a potential White House run in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio, once the darling of conservatives and a top GOP presidential contender, quickly fell out of favor with the grassroots when he supported a version of comprehensive immigration reform championed by the Obama administration and some of the most liberal members of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>After the Senate&#8217;s &#8220;Gang of Eight&#8221; bill was pronounced dead-on-arrival in the House of Representatives, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/ballot-box\/presidential-races\/216311-rubios-new-tune-on-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">Rubio has since modified his position<\/a> on how to pursue immigration reform. Unsurprisingly, it now aligns with what conservatives have said all along: secure the border first, build trust in the federal government&#8217;s commitment to the rule of law and national sovereignty, and <em>only\u00a0then<\/em> discuss how to integrate illegal immigrants into American society.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Rubio sent a letter to President Barack Obama <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/386346\/marco-rubio-obamas-unilateral-action-will-kill-immigration-reform-joel-gehrke\" target=\"_blank\">warning against a unilateral executive action<\/a> that would grant some kind of legal status to as many as 5 million illegal immigrants. In Rubio&#8217;s words, such an act &#8220;will increase the perception of ambiguity in our laws, incentivize more people to immigrate here illegally, and significantly set back the prospects of real reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too early to tell whether Rubio&#8217;s repositioning will be enough to convince conservatives that he&#8217;s changed his principles instead of just his tactics. Until he can give a convincing explanation of why next time will be different, skepticism about his true beliefs will remain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, pivot to the next best alternative. That seems to be the strategy used by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) as he positions himself for a potential White House run in 2016. Rubio, once the darling of conservatives and a top GOP presidential contender, quickly fell out of favor with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3887,143,981,352,38],"class_list":["post-21417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-barack-obama","tag-immigration","tag-marco-rubio","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21417"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21421,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417\/revisions\/21421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}