Bill O’Reilly backs Marco Rubio immigration reform as fair and good

Playing catch up on the administration with a sharp change of tactics

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Bill O'Reilly appears on the Fox News show, "The O'Reilly Factor,"

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Rubio has split from fellow conservatives who refuse to offer any legal status or citizenship to undocumented workers because it would reward people who break the law, they say.

On Tuesday, Carney said the White House is 'encouraged' that Rubio’s thinking now 'so closely reflects the president’s blueprint for reform.'

Hispanic voters strongly supported Obama and other Democrats at the polls last year, which astounded O'Reilly, who suggested at the time the white picket fence world of Wally and the Beave had come to an end.

Now Republicans are moving to win back some of their losses.

'We’re seeing a sort of tango with Rubio and Obama beginning on immigration reform, and they are each not sure yet who is leading and who is following,' Angela Kelley, an analyst at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank, told the Washington Post. 'I suspect until they figure that out, there will be some stepping on toes.'

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