Marco Rubio Meets Miami DREAMer, Still Opposes DREAM Act

Witness the Florida Republican Senator's head-scratching political calculus.

By Julianne Hing Mar 09, 2012

This week the Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio [invited](http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2012/03/daniela-pelaez-to-meet-with-florida-lawmers-in-washington-.html) Daniela Palaez, a Miami high school valedictorian who’s quickly become a national face for the DREAM Act, to Washington D.C., and later said he still opposes the DREAM Act. Palaez and her sister Dayana were facing removal to Colombia, but [won a two-year reprieve](http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/06/2679197/north-miami-valedictorian-wins.html#storylink=cpy) on their deportation order after their principal, local superintendent, thousands of fellow students, as well as Florida lawmakers from both parties lobbied to keep them in the country.