Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) has been working for weeks to convince conservatives that President Obama’s “dead on arrival” liberal immigration plan is light years apart from his tough conservative alternative. Setting aside the fact that the two proposals are broadly similar, it looks like Rubio’s latest White House spat is already paying dividends.Charles Krauthammer is one of the most influential conservative columnists in America and so far a tough critic of the immigration reform proposals floating around since the election. Instead, he’s advocated for fully completing a “triple layered” border fence along the entire 2,000-mile US-Mexico border as a prerequisite for granting legal status — not eventual citizenship — to illegal immigrants. Last month, he criticized a bipartisan Senate proposal backed by Rubio for not doing enough on the security front.
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