Ashley Lopez: Pablo Pantoja cited among his reasons for leaving a “culture of intolerance surrounding the Republican Party.”

Ashley Lopez: But Republican members of Florida’s congressional delegation won’t back the immigration reform bill.

Ashley Lopez: Sen. Marco Rubio’s plans to pass bipartisan immigration reform this year have put him in the hot seat with conservatives, and Rubio is now trying to claw back into their good graces.

Ashley Lopez: The Senate’s bipartisan Gang of Eight — which includes Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio — filed their long-awaited immigration reform plan today.

Ashley Lopez: The immigration reform debate has turned Sen. Marco Rubio into the “savior” of the Republican Party.

Ashley Lopez: President Barack Obama announced yesterday that he will release and pursue his own immigration reform plans if Congress doesn’t act quickly on its own.

Ashley Lopez: This is the closest thing we’ve seen to what immigration reform might look like.

Ashley Lopez: Everyone in Washington, D.C., wants to know what immigration reform looks like to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Ashely Lopez: On Tuesday, an ethics bill aimed at addressing Tallahassee’s “revolving door”– the movement of government employees from lobbying firms to the positions they lobbied — cleared a Senate panel.

Ashley Lopez: President Obama is expected to take on immigration reform in his State of the Union address this month, but only after Sen. Marco Rubio takes a stab at it first.