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Marco Rubio: Oregon Occupiers Should Be Prosecuted

But don't treat them like an “invading army,” the Republican presidential candidate says.
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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said Friday that people "should be prosecuted" in the three-week stand-off at Oregon wildlife refuge, but said the federal government should not resort to violence against the group of armed men occupying the area.

"We're not going to treat them like an invading army from a foreign country," Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida, told a crowd at a town hall in Merrimack, New Hampshire, after an audience member asked him how he would handle the occupiers, led by Ammon Bundy, whose father, Cliven Bundy, held a similar standoff in Nevada two years ago.