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WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 25: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) (R) and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) welcome memebrs of the Cuban dissident group Ladies in White to the U.S. Capitol April 25, 2013 in Washington, DC. Wearing the color white to symbolize peace, the Ladies in White is an opposition movement in Cuba consisting of wives and other female relatives of jailed political dissidents.
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As perhaps the best-known Hispanic-American in national politics Sen. Marco Rubio has a tightrope to walk between keeping the folks back home happy and serving as a high-profile symbol for the GOP nationally.
First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border.
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