A bipartisan group of senators, including Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), have taken on numerous Sunday morning talk shows today in order to defend and clarify a new bill they are introducing this week that would create the biggest immigration overhaul in years.

The plan calls for a long, but clearly defined, process towards citizenship for immigrants. Among the measures called for would be the requirements that immigrants wait 10 years to become a citizen, receive no federal benerfits for the first 13 years of the program, and that border security is improved.

"No federal benefits, no food stamps, no welfare, no Obamacare," Rubio said. "They have to prove that they're gainfully employed; they have to be able to support themselves so they never become a public charge. These are all the things that they're going to have to do just to keep that status."

The Department of Homeland Security would also be under close scrutiny. Under this new bill, which will be proposed on Tuesday, the DHS would have to prove that it is monitoring 100% of the southwest border with Mexico, and capturing 90% of those who are trying to cross it.

Several of Marco Rubio's Republican colleagues, including senators Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions, have been quick to dismiss the bill as nothing more than a way to give illegal immigrants undeserved amnesty from prosecution. Rubio has been accused of failing in his commitment to the American people by making illegal immigration desirable for foreigners.

"If somehow being in the country illegally is cheaper, easier and quicker than the right way, I wouldn't support that," Rubio said. "It will be cheaper, faster and easier for people to go back home and wait 10 years than [go through] this process. That's why it's not amnesty."

Other senators have dismissed the bill as nothing more than lip service. They claim that Rubio and his bipartisan group are simply introducing legislation to give the appearance that they are doing something to change a deeply broken system.

"So much of it is regaining the public's confidence that the federal government is actually doing its job," states Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). "So until that confidence is restored, on the basis of what the legislation provides, I would have difficulty supporting it."