WEST MIAMI-After officially filing as a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in the Florida race on Tuesday ,Marco Rubio became the most notable member of the GOP to distance himself from the controversial Arizona immigration law that is quickly becoming a hot-button issue in the 2010 political cycle. Rubio, the Cuban-American son of Cuban exiles, said that while he sympathized with the border state for trying to remedy a “broken border” infused with drug violence spill-over from Mexico , the new law could have ” unintentional and unintended consequences” and would require a “police state” to enforce it.
“I think everyone is concerned with the reasonable suspicion provisions where people could be pulled over because someone suspects they may not be legally in this country, ” Rubio said to reporters. ” I think people will grow uncomfortable with that, and that’s why I think the sense of urgency here needs to be a legal immigration system that works for America and that begins with border security, and tightening up the visa process.”
Rubio fully blamed the federal government for failing to secure the border, but hoped that the Obama administration would not use the controversy to push amnesty for the mill