NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said on Friday that the single biggest lesson he learned from the failure of comprehensive immigration reform in Congress in 2013 is that Americans will not accept proposals to deal with the undocumented residents in the U.S. until the border is secure.
“What I’ve learned is that you can’t even begin to have a conversation about [immigration reform] until people believe, and know, and you prove it to them, that future immigration will be controlled. That’s the single biggest lesson of the last two years,” Rubio, a potential 2016 presidential contender, told a standing-room only conference hall at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
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Under President Barack Obama’s leadership, American forces have been carrying out airstrikes against ISIS since August 2014. As of February 2015, more than 4,000 U.S. troops were deployed to Iraq to help in the fight against the extremist group. In December of last year, U.S. officials confirmed that Iran is also assisting in the effort, conducting airstrikes over parts of Iraq controlled by the militant group.
