Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) took the fight to Cruz in the Thursday night’s GOP Debate in Des Moines, Iowa where he said “Cruz is trying to trump Donald Trump on immigration.”
While speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity after the one of the most substantive debates of this election season, Rubio delved a little deeper into his views on immigration and his scuffles with fellow presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.).
“I want to solve problems,” Rubio began. “I want to solve the immigration issue, I live the immigration issue. My parents, my grandparents were immigrants, I live in a community of immigrants.”
Rubio claims Americans are prepared to deal with the problems in immigration policy, but not before the border is under control, adding there will be no “common-sense” consensus until it is.
“We’re not going to impose the solution. We’re not going to deport 12 million people and we’re not going to hand out 12 million citizenship cards. There has to be a process that makes sense for America.”
Rubio says it won’t be done by executive order, which current President Barack Obama has become notorious for, nor will it be done by bickering for the title of most principled conservative.
Cruz “is trying to trump Trump on immigration and that’s just not going to work,” Rubio claimed.