Rubio: Immigration Reform Won't Pass Without More Border Security

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continued to make the rounds this weekend in support of his immigration reform bill. Rubio appeared on ABCs This Week on Sunday and insisted increasing border security would help rally conservatives behind the proposal. Rubio also claimed adding more border security was the only way the bill would pass both chambers of Congress.

The vast majority of Americans, the vast majority of conservative Republicans are prepared to support immigration reform, but only if we can ensure that were not going to have another wave of illegal immigration in the future, Rubio said. And so I think they have pointed to valid criticisms of how the border security plan is structured in the bill, and quite frankly very reasonable ways to address it.

I think the debate now is about what that border security provision looks like, Rubio added. And if we do that, this bill will have strong bipartisan support. If we fail, were going to keep trying, because at the end of the day, the only way were going to pass an immigration reform law out of the House and Senate so the president can sign it, is that it has real border security measures within it.