Marco Rubio: Immigrant Son | TIME.com
That’s why on the morning of Dec. 21, she called her youngest son, Marco
Antonio Rubio, the 41-year-old Senator from Florida and great Hispanic hope of
the Republican Party—or, as she calls him, Tony. She got his voice mail. “Tony,
some loving advice from the person who cares for you most in the world,” she
said in Spanish. “Don’t mess with the immigrants, my son. Please, don’t mess
with them.” She reminded him that undocumented Americans—los pobrecitos, she
called them, the poor things—work hard and get treated horribly. “They’re human
beings just like us, and they came for the same reasons we came. To work. To
improve their lives. So please, don’t mess with them.”
Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/07/immigrant-son/#ixzz2KECYQia2
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