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No, what I am asking for is more information on these things, what proposals Rubio specifically favored, why that was so bad, what his current platform position is that he has articulated, how his ideas compare to or differ from the other candidates, etc. etc.

Do you support amnesty? Do you support increasing the number of foreign guest workers at a time when we have the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years? You have to do this research for yourself so you can defend your candidate of choice. I know where Trump stands on the immigration issue.

Also, immigration is one issue among many. So, for example, if Rubio is strong on pro-life and religious liberty, and another candidate is weak on those issues but stronger on immigration--or Rubio is very strong and knowledgeable on foreign policy, and another candidate just likes to blow off gas and say that things will be "great"--well, I weigh all these factors.

Immigration is the defining issue of our time. It affects every major challenge facing this country. Mass legal immigration will mark the end of conservatism in this country. Immigrants vote more than two to one Dem.

How Mass (Legal) Immigration Dooms a Conservative Republican Party

In 1970 one in 21 was foreign born; today, it is less tha one in 8, the highest in 105 years, and within a decade in will be one in 7, the highest in our history. In 1970 we had 9.7 million foreign born; today, there are 42.4 million. We have just had the two largest decades of legal immigration in our history. Over 35 million legal permanent immigrants have entered since 1990. 87% of them are minorities as defined by the USG

Immigrants are taking American jobs and depressing wages.

Immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than the native born.

I oppose illegal immigration. I do not oppose legal immigration. My own grandparents came here as legal immigrants from Sweden.

I heard Rubio speak on the question of illegal immigration at the recent candidate forum in South Carolina. He spoke well about securing the border. He spoke well about tracking guest workers, so that they do not overstay their visas. He spoke well about ways to prevent and disincentivize employers from hiring illegal workers. Now the one question I would like to hear more from him on is what to do with those already here, which is a stickier wicket, in terms of what is realistically attainable. So I will be listening for that in the debates and interviews I catch in the coming months.