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...you're never going to have a legal immigration system that works if you grant amnesty.

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Marco Rubio
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: May 28
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Marco Antonio Rubio
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Our national motto is 'In God we Trust,' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all.
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Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.
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When I'm president, the Senate bill is not going to be what we're operating off of. It's going to begin by focusing on securing our border first and foremost. And until you do that, you're not going to be able to do anything else.
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The federal government has the responsibility to protect the nation's public health, to protect us from foreign threats. And it [Zika] really is an illness that we are seeing arrive from abroad. So it is a threat to public health, and it is the federal government's job to cooperate in this.
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