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Immigration like abortion is a litmus test of a candidate's conservative bona fides. Marco Rubio failed the test.

Immigration amnesty is so dangerous to the Republic, to the Republican Party, and to conservatism that it should not require any serious analysis on the part of a Republican legislator to conclude that he must oppose it. Those who do not oppose must offer some explanation other than they have sold out the moneyed interests of the Republican establishment.

An explanation that we must reward illegality in order to stop illegality is preposterous on its face and forces any rational observer of a Republican politician who offers this explanation to no other conclusion except that this politician, too, is on the take. He is either on the take for campaign contributions, for acceptance into the establishment, or for toadying to the media-and the entire heavy-handed bias in this Yahoo piece thoroughly demonstrates its media bias.

Marco Rubio is a brilliant, even charismatic speaker but he has forfeited any claim to conservative support.

Yep—and every GOP candidate for president is pro-amnesty. They only differ in degree. (Cruz, at the best on the issue, would legalize the 20 million-plus illegals here currently, and only leave it to others to give them citizenship.)

Being against Amnesty and willing to fight it is not sufficient. Getting the illegals out of the country is necessary for several reasons, the main one being that allowing them to stay inside the borders, even without "legalization" guarantees that within a few years they will be legalized and will get citizenship. Massive deportation is not the necessary litmus test because there are better and cheaper ways to do it. Eisenhower showed how to do it. With publicity round up several groups of wetbacks in several locations, put them on a freighter and deposit them in Vera Cruz. Don't give Mexico a choice.

Jail a couple of dozen or a couple of hundred major and minor employers of illegal construction workers and lawn maintenance workers and some baby sitters. Collar university students, no matter what their grades and send deport them. That would only total a tiny part of the whole but millions would find it incumbent to mosey on down to the border or get on planes and go back to wherever.
As for the anchor baby phenomenon, wetback women should be allowed to have their babies in American hospitals then be given the choice of taking their citizen children with them as they are deported to wherever immediately upon release, with no paperwork, or having the newborns taken for anonymous adoption.