Marco Rubio (R)
Marco Rubio receives an overall grade of: B
Marco Rubio receives a grade of 
on Official English.
Marco Rubio was elected to the Senate in 2010, but he has not yet availed himself of the opportunity to join on as a cosponsor to the English Language Unity Act (S.678) that was introduced by Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK). That said, next to Kasich, Rubio is the only other Presidential Candidate who has advocated for an Official English policy. In 2010, while campaigning for the Senate, Rubio took questions as part of a TV interview with HSPA and he defended Florida’s Official English law–affirming his support for it in both English and Spanish. As a Senator, however, Rubio has not signed on as a cosponsor to Senator Inhofe’s English Language Unity Act (S.678). Moreover, Rubio’s 2013 Gang of Eight immigration reform bill featured a pathway to permanent residency for approximately 11 million illegal aliens after 10 years and citizenship after 13 years without meaningful English requirements. To facilitate assimilation, Rubio attempted to introduce an amendment that would have required English testing, instead of an English class registration, for the illegal aliens. Rubio was not successful in his attempt to attach this amendment to the bill. Nevertheless, the final version of the bill that passed in the Senate had language requiring those with provisional legal status to learn English, and the media widely reported it. ProEnglish then did an analysis of the bill, which proved that zero dollars were ever allocated for any kind of English testing requirement.
Marco Rubio receives a grade of N/A on the issue of Bilingual Ballots.
Marco Rubio has not issued a policy statement on the issue of bilingual ballots. US law regarding naturalization of new citizens mandates that they pass an English comprehension test and, therefore, any immigrant with legal citizenship status can read a ballot. The only candidate in 2016 who has a record of explicitly calling for ballots to be exclusively English is Rick Santorum, and that was in the previous Presidential cycle.
Marco Rubio receives a grade of on the issue of Amnesty.
Marco Rubio was one of eight Senators who wrote the Rubio-Schumer immigration reform (Gang of Eight) bill in 2013. The bill provided for enhanced border and workplace security along with a 10-year path to legalization and a 13-year path to citizenship, along with increased H1-B’s and legal immigration. Rubio unsuccessfully attempted to attach an amendment to the bill that would have required illegal immigrants with provisional legal status to demonstrate English proficiency. ProEnglish researched the final version of the bill and exposed the fact that zero dollars were allocated for the alleged English requirement that, in any case, had no provisions for testing the English fluency of guest workers and legal residents.
Marco Rubio receives a grade of 
on the issue of Puerto Rican Statehood.
Marco Rubio traveled to Puerto Rico in 2015 at the same time as Hillary Clinton. Rubio, like Clinton, advocated for statehood, contingent upon the passage of a referendum. Rubio took the additional step of calling for a two-option ballot, either for statehood or against. Rubio avoided saying what percentage of the vote would constitute legitimacy in affirming statehood, although he did indicate that it would need to be higher than 50% plus one. Rubio has not called for Puerto Rico to make English its primary official language as a condition of statehood. Regarding Puerto Rico’s debt, Rubio differs from Clinton in that he opposes extending Chapter 9 bankruptcy protections to the Puerto Rican central and local governments and public corporations until there has been significant spending reform.
Marco Rubio receives a grade of N/A on the issue of English-in-the-workplace.
Marco Rubio has not taken a position on the issue of the right of employers to require employees to speak English on the job for all things work-related, such as business transactions, customer interactions, company communications, and meetings.
Marco Rubio receives a grade of 
on the issue of Multiculturalism & Assimilation.
Marco Rubio’s stump speeches generally tout the virtues of American Exceptionalism by stressing the political liberty, individual rights, and free market opportunities afforded to his parents that still remain unavailable to those living under the boot of Cuban communism. Rubio did link assimilation to official English policy in his amendment to the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill by mandating that one requirement of the 10 year pathway to legalization for 11 million illegal immigrants would be to pass an English proficiency test, and not just to be enrolled in an English class. Concerning the English requirement, Rubio stated, “I just truly believe that as part of any successful immigration reform, you have to have assimilation. And one of the quickest ways for people to assimilate into our culture and into our society is to speak the unifying language of our country which is English…”