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Posted on 03/04/2013 10:34:36 AM PST by South40
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said in a TV interview Monday that he no longer supports a path to citizenship in an immigration reform bill, a reversal that puts him to the right of the current bipartisan immigration proposal forming in the Senate.
"If we want to create an immigration policy that's going to work, we can't continue to make illegal immigration an easier path than legal immigration," Bush said on NBC's "Today" show. "I think it's important that there's a natural friction between our immigrant heritage and the rule of law. This is the right place, I think, to be in that sense."
Bush, a Republican, supported immigration reform even when many in his party shifted to a harder line stance in the 2012 primary. As recently as last August, he said in interviews that he thought most of the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants should be put on a gradual path to citizenship if they meet certain conditions.
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The problem with CINOs is that, even when they agree with conservatives, their heart is not in it. It’s a calculated position. Does anyone really think Jeb Bush thinks this is the best course of action? Or did he arrive at this position by way of some poll-based focus-groupthink? The latter.
Republicans are fail, Jeb Bush.
You are fail, Jeb Bush.
He knows that the supreme court would simply make them citizens after a few years. Typical RINO thinking he can outsmart us ignernt hillbillies.
Very interesting perspective
sickoflibs[notcompletelytalingoveronceandforall]
Good!
Now I can see myself voting for him in 2016. He is becoming the best choice for victory.
Nah, I’m just screwing with ya.
To be more precise, the Bush royal family and their fellow Big Government Republicans spent over 20 years purging Reaganites out of the party.
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60-70% of illegals could care less about US citizenship and are not in a hurry to get it. What they treasure above all and want is legal green card status so any job here is open to them and all the welfare/medical/housing/Obama-Care programs too
Immigration reform bills WITHOUT citizenship are toxic to most Dems and esp the Democat base.
To them it just helps businesses/employers (Take advantage of workers) who they hate (the businesses).
They want illegals to vote, that is their #1 reason why they want the reform. They wont accept anything else.
Know your enemy. That is how O has been beating Republicans.
And the ‘no jump ahead’ one is a good one rhetorically too
I'll give Mitt credit for at least trying to win, but I still think I'm right about him being a placeholder for Jeb. Jeb is going to look awfully good after four more years of Zer0.
I can't think of a worse match-up than Hillary vs. Jeb.
I'll give Mitt credit for at least trying to win, but I still think I'm right about him being a placeholder for Jeb. Jeb is going to look awfully good after four more years of Zer0.
I can't think of a worse match-up than Hillary vs. Jeb.
Sense? Only to the low infoamation, ignorant voter.
Why the hell would Republicans give illegal aliens (esp ones in demographics that overwhelmingly support liberal redistribution policies) the vote ? Isnt this suicide?
Our legal immigration policies are already suicide for the Reps. We bring in 1.2 million legal immigrants a year, two thirds of whom will vote Dem.
When you legalize the status of the 11 to 20 million lawbreakers, you enable them to bring in tens of millions of their relatives thru chain migration, i.e., family reunification.
And does anyone really think that we can create a second class of permanent legal residents who have no opportunity to become citizens like other green card holders? The issue will be taken to the courts and the lawbreakers will be given the right to apply for citizenship. If the courts don't rule in their favor, the Dems in Congress and the WH will eventually change it.
) Democrats wont support a immigration bill that does not have path to citizenship, which is a good reason to support one (that they wont accept.
Please don't throw me into that briar patch. The Dems know that once the 11 to 20 million are legalized, the rest will be easy. They will remain the champions of immigrants and minorities. They will fight for the civil rights of the oppressed. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as classified by the USG and by 2042 half of the country will be. Demography is destiny.
) The just be against everything (in the House) strategy is not working, in case you havent noticed Bohner is passing Democrats Senate bills using Dem votes, partly because there are no alternative Republican House bills on them that he can get passed (unite) with just GOP votes. So Obama is winning. He got the Senate modified VAWA. His agenda is slowly getting passed.
And Reps who support anmnesty, i.e., giving the lawbreakers the right to stay and work here, are helping Obama pass his agenda. It is reminiscent of don't ask, don't tell, which was just an interim measure to allow gays to openly serve in the military and Obamacare, which will lead to single payer health care.
It will never get that far. A immigration bill without voting would never pass the Senate, the unions and the rest of the base will threaten to primary any Dems who support it.
Only low information voters (Rush listeners) think they would go for it.
Look, Bohner just passed a modified VAWA that gives protection to gay partners because Reid sent it to him. If Reid gets a bill with path to voting passed in Senate there is nothing to stop it from reaching Obama’s desk.
Romney tried the ‘self deport’ in his campaign, that went really well.
The Bushs are my enemy. I have come to know them very well.
Name a case where a judge ever successfully made a non-citizen a citizen.
but while you bring it up, keep losing POTUS elections and a few more wise latinos on the court and who knows what they will make up.
I bet I been called BDS here more times than you have.
But maybe Jeb is better than the last two were HA-Ha
Really. Trust us. Jeb isn’t his father. Jeb isn’t his brother. Jeb is a REAL conservative.
“Fool me once shame on you, fool me — umm — err -— uh -— can’t get fooled again.”
Isnt Rubio sucking all the air out of a Jeb Bush run? How do you compare those to each other?
I don’t compare them. I reject Bush out of hand.
Rubio bears watching. He’s still a poosibility in my mind.
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