Why Immigration Advocates Trust Jeb Bush Over Marco Rubio
Both men support “legal status” for undocumented workers, but their overall attitudes give pro-reform advocates very different impressions.
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When Jeb Bush subtly swiped his Republican rivals for a tendency to "bend with the wind," as leaked to the Washington Post last week, a likely target was Senator Marco Rubio, his protégé-turned-rival, who abandoned his 2013 immigration bill under pressure from conservatives. On Sunday, Bush insisted he's "not going to back down on [his] views on immigration."
The two Floridians are the most pro-immigration Republicans polling in the top tier of the presidential field—both have endorsed "legal status" for undocumented immigrants, a view many conservatives decry as "amnesty." But pro-immigration activists seem to prefer the ex-governor to the senator, though they're less than thrilled with either of them.