Marco Rubio and Immigration Influence
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Immigrant Son
Oriales GarcÃÂa Rubio knows how it feels to want more. When she was a girl in central Cuba in the 1930s, her family of nine lived in a one-room house with a dirt floor. Her dolls were Coke bottles dressed in rags. She dreamed of becoming an actress. Instead she married a security guard, moved with him to the U.S. and found work as a hotel maid. Her husband got a job as a bartender while starting a series of failed businessesâ€â€a vegetable stand, a dry cleaner, a grocery. They...
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Marco Rubio: I’m not the ‘savior’ 
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is having moment in the national spotlight, underscored by his selection to deliver the Republican response to President Obamas State of the Union.
Rubio also is featured on Time magazines cover this week, with the headline “the Republican savior.
But even as his celebrity within his party rises, that phrase went too far for Rubio, a Catholic who often talks about his faith. He responded to the cover story in a tweet Wednesday morning:
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Flake: Rubio ‘the Linchpin’ of Immigration Movement
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is the key link in the chain to implement immigration reform., his fellow Republican Sen. Jeff Flake has claimed.
Rubio has unique credibility as the most prominent Latino in American politics, his colleague says. Coming from a Cuban family, the Floridian has no peer in the Republican Party for his “vision of what being conservative . . . ought to mean, particularly in the context of immigration, Flake told Politico.
Its important that Rubio “has stepped forward on immigration reform, the Arizona Republican said. “Hes the...
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