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Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday that he thinks its going to be difficult but that it is possible to make progress on immigration reform under President Donald Trump.

As a member of the bipartisan Gang of Eight, Rubio pushed a comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2013 that ultimately passed the Senate but not the House, though he later walked back his support for some of its provisions. Alongside other points, the 2013 bill would have created a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants living in the U.S.

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Trump addressed the question of immigration at his generally well-received address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, after some speculation that he would endorse comprehensive reform, possibly including a path to legal status for some undocumented people. Trump did not call for that in his speech, but talked about the need for greater enforcement of immigration law and reform of the U.S. system into a merit-based one, while still presenting illegal immigration as a threat to the country.

Rubio, speaking to Fox, endorsed Trumps points on law enforcement and making the immigration system more merit-based. After movements on those two fronts, Rubio suggested, then you can do something very reasonable with the people who have been here a long time who are not gang bangers, who are not criminals, who are not a threat to public safety.

I believe if Democrats are willing to accept that direction then we can get something done, he said. If they continue to fight for of the unrealistic, the Let's give everybody blanket amnesty, or Lets give everybody citizenship, or Lets do it backwards, or Lets be against any effort to enforce the law beyond symbolic things, then I think were going to continue to be stuck in the cycle weve been in.

I'm hopeful, he concluded. Its going to be difficult, but it is possible.

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