SENATOR Marco Rubio, the Republican point man for immigration reform, says a new bill will carve an arduous 10-year path to citizenship for the country's 11 million illegal immigrants.
Appearing on a string of Sunday talk shows, Rubio appeared keen to reassure hardline Republicans opposed to the idea of amnesty, promising a long and winding uphill climb to citizenship tethered to tighter border security.
Rubio, a Cuban-American seen as a possible 2016 White House candidate, said many immigrants would not qualify, and those who did would have to pay taxes and fines and wait more than a decade before applying for citizenship.
Even then, the path to citizenship would be tied to a major increase in border security, a high-tech verification system to track individuals who overstay their visas and mechanisms to prevent illegal immigrants from working.
"For those undocumented in this country, not only will they have to wait more than 10 years, they will have to wait until those ... things are fully implemented," he told CNN's State of the Union.
"We're not awarding anybody anything. All we're doing is giving people the opportunity to eventually earn access to our new, improved and modernised legal immigration system."
"You won't be able to find work in the US if you are not legally here. That's why that 'e-verify' part of it is so important," Rubio said, adding that undocumented workers would be also barred from social and health programs.
Speaking to ABC News's This Week, Rubio promised a process that "is going to be longer, more expensive and more difficult to navigate".
"It would actually be cheaper if they went back home, wait 10 years and apply for a green card," he said.
Rubio has been working with a bipartisan so-called Gang of Eight senators hoping to enact the most sweeping immigration reform in a quarter of a century, with a Senate bill expected to be introduced as early as Monday.
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