C'mon: Congress isn't going to pass Rubio's DREAM Act

Even within the GOP, pressure is building on Romney to soften his immigration position. As the Democrats were parading outside the Capitol’s East Front on Thursday, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), a possible Romney vice presidential pick, announced that he wanted to find a way to allow the foreign-born children of illegal immigrants to remain legally in the United States.

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But rather than embrace Rubio’s olive branch (he is, after all, taking a position at odds with many in his party), the lawmakers, all from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, derided him as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”…

Gutierrez spoke of an “electrical” map through Latino neighborhoods. Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), also reaching for electoral, spoke of “this electrical season.” All the talk of electricity took Rep. Ed Pastor (D-Ariz.) back to a time before it was universal: “They have to make sure that this cycle, in 1912, we elect a . . . Congress that will restore their dream.”

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