MARK KRIKORIAN: Rubio’s Evasions on Legal Immigration.

Maria Bartiromo asked . . . “Why are you so interested in opening up borders to foreigners when American workers have a hard enough time finding work?”

Rubio . . . brought up every other issue he could think of rather than answer. . . .

First, he suggested terrorist penetration of our immigration system wasn’t a problem in 2013, when he served as the public face of Chuck Schumer’s amnesty/immigration-surge bill . . .

My colleague Steve Camarota published a report 164 months ago detailing “How Militant Islamic Terrorists Entered and Remained in the United States, 1993-2001″. Spoiler alert: Most of them used our legal immigration system.

And freelance immigrant terrorists existed way back in 2013 too. In fact, Rubio and Schumer introduced their bill just two days after the Boston Marathon bombing; regarding immigration and terrorism, Rubio said at the time “We should really be very cautious about using language that links these two things in any way.”