Marco Rubio

Bipartisan Group Dept: A breakthrough came over the weekend as big business and labour reached agreement that would allow tens of thousands of low-skilled workers into the country to fill jobs in construction, restaurants and hotels, according to Calgary Herald. "Reports that the bipartisan group of eight senators have agreed on a legislative proposal are premature," Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican with the group, said Sunday and WASHINGTON - Reports that U.S. lawmakers have reached an immigration reform deal are premature, one senator warned as a bipartisan group tried to calm expectations of agreement on one of the country's most complicated issues. But despite the unusual deal between the AFL-CIO labour federation and the pro-business U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the group of eight senators working to draft legislation still hasn't addressed the subject of the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants living in the U.S. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.