“Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs, urged U.S. lawmakers to pass the Dream Act, an immigration reform bill that cleared the House and died in the Senate in 2010,” Danielle Kucera reports for Bloomberg.
“Jobs, in what NBC said is her first televised interview since her husband’s death in 2011, said failing to provide a path to legal status for younger undocumented immigrants in the U.S. is a waste of ‘human capital,'” Kucera reports. “‘I started getting more and more active around immigration reform because this was such a waste of lives, such a waste of potential, such a waste for our country not to have the human capital we developed geared towards improving our entire society,’ she said in an interview on NBC’s ‘Rock Center’ to be broadcast today. ‘We need all of these brains.'”
Kucera reports, “A bipartisan group of senators is putting the finishing touches on legislation to legalize 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. and revamp immigration laws. They have set a self-imposed deadline to unveil the bill by the end of the week.”
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“Marco Rubio is preparing to go all in to support sweeping immigration legislation, offering himself up as the public face of a bill that will split the Republican Party — but that his allies hope will propel him to the front of the GOP presidential sweepstakes,” Manu Raju reports for Politico.
“After offering lukewarm support until now, Rubio is preparing to fully embrace a measure that is the most significant of his political career so far,” Raju reports. “The gambit could pay off in spades by crowning a leading presidential contender in 2016, or it could permanently damage the Republican’s brand with conservatives.”
Raju reports, “Rubio is planning a media blitz to promote the bill — which is expected to be released early next week — making the rounds on all of the Sunday political talk shows starting this weekend, wooing skeptical conservative radio hosts and pitching the plan to Spanish-language news outlets. The campaign is aimed at building public support for the far-reaching immigration bill that will dominate Capitol Hill’s attention for much of the year. ‘Obviously, we’ll be informing the public, and we’ll want everyone to know everything that’s in the bill,’ Rubio told POLITICO Thursday. ‘We want everyone to know as much of what’s in the bill as possible, and we will use every opportunity we have to communicate that.'”
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