Bloomberg
By Sahil Kapur
July 8, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Marco Rubio dismissed as "silly talk" recent
remarks by Democratic rival Hillary Clinton that GOP contenders "range
across a spectrum
of being either grudgingly welcome or hostile towards immigrants."
"That's
silly talk," Rubio, a son of Cuban immigrants, told a small group of
reporters in Iowa on Wednesday after speaking at the Cedar Rapids
Country Club during a campaign
stop. "She'll continue to say silly things like that, I imagine,
because she feels the heat from the left in her own primary."
The
Florida senator said he disagreed with Clinton's claim. "We have a
right to enforce our immigration laws. That's not hostility, that's
sovereignty," he said. "And
the truth of the matter is that many candidates on that [Republican]
stage have offered varying, different ideas about how to address the
fact that we have people in this country illegally."
“I think voters are capable of distinguishing the Republican Party from Donald Trump.”
Senator Marco Rubio
He
reiterated his support for overhauling U.S. immigration policy,
including a pathway to permanent residency (a prerequisite to
citizenship), but insisted that it "isn't
going to happen until we do border security and bring illegal
immigration under control. ... That's just a political reality."
Rubio
also lambasted primary rival Donald Trump's inflammatory comments
likening Mexican immigrants to "rapists" during a speech announcing his
bid last month.
"I
think voters are capable of distinguishing the Republican Party from
Donald Trump," Rubio said of the businessman and TV personality. "I
obviously strongly disagree
with [his comments]. They're inaccurate, and they're offensive, and
they're divisive." None of the other Republican candidates are making
statements similar to Trump's, he said.
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