Marco Rubio: Immigration Bill 'Real Improvement on the Border Security'

Appearing on Greta Van Sustrens show on Fox News on Monday night, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said the Senates approval of the Hoeven-Corker amendment to the immigration reform bill will improve border security.

We have made improvements to the bill, Rubio said. I mean real improvements. We are going to have 700 miles of fencing and the money is in the bill so they cant take it out in the future like theyve done in the past. It means we are going to have 20,000 new border agents, doubling the size of the U.S. border patrol. It means we are going to have mandated technology, so we are actually saying at a minimum this is what the secretary of Homeland Security must do. I know some are going around saying she can ignore that, but she cant. It says these are the minimum standards, so it is a real improvement on the border security. I have been saying it for weeks now, that the border security elements of the bill needed to be strengthened.

Rubio insisted the bill improves border security in a number of ways.

Here is the way I view it, Rubio said. For years, even before I came here, when I would talk to people about immigration they would say to me, lets finish the fence, lets build a border fence where it is needed. This bill regulates that, it mandates that, and it funds it so a future Congress cant come and cut the money. People used to say to me, we need an E-Verify system that works. This bill does that. It says, We need border patrol agents. This bill does that. It says, we need more technology on the border and we should require specific technology, dont leave it to the Department of Homeland Security to decide, put it in the bill. This bill does that. This bill has a bunch of things that conservatives and many Americans have been asking for, specifically for years. It now requires it. And the reason why we know it is going to happen, or we think it is going to force them to do it, is because you cant get the green card. If you violated our immigration laws, you cant even apply for a green card, much less get one, until all five of those things happen.