“Once both of these reforms have been passed, then I believe the conditions will be in place …” [Emphasis added]
It’s a key fudge point. Universal E-Verify, for example, could easily pass Congress and still be held up in the courts or undone through hostile regulations — a common pattern for immigration enforcement measures. The same goes double for a border fence (which Rubio doesn’t even call for) and an “entry-exit tracking system,” which Rubio wants but which Congress has already, futilely, mandated more than once. A President Rubio would be way more likely to get Democratic support for (a), precisely because so many Democrats would like to knock out enforcement after pocketing Rubio’s amnesty. …
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