Bloomberg
By John McCormick
August 18, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Marco Rubio said Tuesday that he disagrees with
the call his party's front-runner, Donald Trump, made for ending the
practice of automatically
granting citizenship to children born in this country, even if their
parents are not here legally.
"I
don't agree with that," the Florida senator told reporters on at the
Iowa State Fair when asked about Trump's opposition to birthright citizenship. "I'm open to doing
things that prevent people who deliberately come to the U.S. for
purposes of taking advantage of the 14th Amendment, but I'm not in favor
of repealing it."
The
senator's answer on the topic was more direct than those offered Monday
at the fair by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, another GOP
presidential candidate.
“This is the nation that literally changed the history of my family.”
Appearing
with Iowa's senior senator, Republican Chuck Grassley, Rubio declined
to directly criticize the billionaire businessman or comment on whether
he's hurting Republicans
among Hispanic voters with the detailed plan for ending illegal
immigration that Trump issued earlier this week.
"Obviously,
there are some ideas that have merit, but the majority of it is really
not a workable plan that could ever pass Congress," he said of the
proposal that Trump
released Sunday. "It's a serious issue."
The
son of Cuban immigrants, Rubio also criticized Trump's plan for
deporting people now living in the United States illegally. "There is
not a realistic way of rounding
up and deporting 12 or 13 million people and our nation wouldn't want
to do that anyways," he said.
Later
at the Des Moines Register's political soapbox, Rubio spoke for less
than half of the allowed 20-minute period as a crowd stood in the rain
under multi-colored umbrellas
or wearing yellow ponchos with the hoods up.
He
spoke primarily about foreign policy and economic issues, and didn't
address his earlier comments on immigration. He did, however, note—as he
often does—that he parents
were immigrants.
"America
doesn’t owe me anything, but I have a debt to America, I will never
repay," he told those gathered. "This is the nation that literally
changed the history of
my family."
Before
making his political swing through the fairgrounds, Rubio brought his
family for a brief visit on Monday evening that included a ride on the
bumper cars.
Asked
if he agreed with President Barack Obama's 2007 quip that the ride is
good preparation for presidential debates, Rubio noted the 17-member
Republican field.
"There aren't enough bumper cars to prepare for this debate," he said. "There's too many people running."
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