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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R)
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R) came out against creating a pathway to citizenship in comprehensive immigration reform. Bush only wants a pathway to legal residency.
During an interview on NBC’s Today show Bush said, “Our proposal is a proposal that looks forward and 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. There’s a natural friction between our immigrant heritage and the rule of law. This is the right place to be in that sense. Not to take away people’s rights”
Jeb Bush is considered a top tier 2016 candidate and also said today he would not rule out a possible run. This gives added importance to his position on immigration because several members of Congress that are working to shape a possible immigration reform, like Sen. Macro Rubio (R-FL), are also considering a 2016 run. Jeb’s position and possible candidacy could shape policy decision being made in the near future.
It could make individuals like Rubio less willing to support a bill with a pathway to citizenship if they believe it will open them up to attack from the right in a 2016 presidential primary. While a pathway to citizenship is generally very popular with regular Americans, the Republican primary electorate is significantly more conservative than the rest of the country.
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Not even for Chang?
Yes, the Rs really, really do not want 10 to 20 million more D voters.
JEB/Rubio 2016
JEB’s position will “evolve” after the Neanderthal primary.
JEB is playing footsie semantics for Wingnuts and Teabaggers.
Citizenship comes after legal residency.
There is little that can be done to avoid becoming a Citizen once you have become a naturalized legal resident aka resident alien.
The immigrant is shoehorned though the INS legal process.
It is much more costly to avoid becoming a US citizen.
You have to resubmit paperwork and fees ($800 every 8 years, IIRC.)
Like I said, you are shoehorned into the process of ultimate citizenship.
You pay the $800 one (last) time, submit the final paperwork, one time and you’re done.
I’m against Jeb Bush
I think Jeb got a call from David, as in Koch.
God save us from another Bush Presidency,hasn’t his family done enough harm to this country.
I agree with Jeb on this one. The last amnesty resulted in massive fraud, and now we have 20 million more illegal aliens.
JEB Is FOR a Pathway to Residency, so your ethnocentric concerns will not be addressed to your satisfaction in any case.
BTW, are you a Native American or did your great grandparents migrate from Great Britain or Europe like the rest of us squatters?
Have to agree this is primary dancin’ by Jeb. I figure he plans on running for the 2016 nomination.
Obama may wall have destroyed the Democratic Party brand by then by fucking over SocSec and Medicare, so it may be possible for a rational looking Repub to win….
What is it with American voters? They wouldn’t think of buying a 2013 Edsel, Corvair, or Vega, but they’re willing to vote for someone with the proven damaged-goods brand name of Bush, even though a lemon president can cause a great deal more pain than a lemon car.
Yes, I’ve seen this argument by a fed reserve officer and it was persuasive. People ordinarily wait years to get into the country legally and when they’re situated continents away, Asia, for instance, they can’t walk across our border. (I think it was Anderson) pointed out that simple fairness should put legal applicants first.
… X 2
In view of what Barack Obama has been doing as a DINO POTUS and appears set on keeping at doing until Jan.2017 quite likely Jeb Bush will have to work hard to not look like BushObama instead of the current POTUS ObamaBush act.
Barack Obama really ripped G.W.Bush a new one after Jan.20,2009 tho didn’t he? Obama sure did. No — actually Barack Obama did no such thing to much of what G.W.Bush and R.B.Cheney left behind on Jan.20,2009. Because Barack Obama said Obama was not Looking Back at Bush/Cheney because then Obama would not be able to keep going where Bush/Cheney had been headed.
>>> Bush/Cheney GWOT? Check.
>>> Wall St./ TBTF Banker Sweetheart Legal Deals/QE tosses? Check.
>>> Going after SS/MC,sabotaging MedicareForAll while speed-dialing AHIPProfitsCare? Check.
>>> Becoming a war criminal? Check.
>>> Maintaining and ramping up American Empire warmongering? Check.
Boy-o-boy … Barack Obama sure ripped G.W.Bush and Bush/Cheney regime a new one….ummm … no …Barack Obama didn’t.
Barack Obama is ObamaBush and doing Bush/Cheney better than that pair ever did but since Barack Obama claims to be a D POTUS Obama gets the IOKIYAAD Pass Card from the Dz’s and Dz’s simpleton’s reasoned out R vs. D cheerleading and Go Team D!! election 3 Monkey Act done with flair.
Dz’s deserve whatever ObamaBush shoves up and down them.
But Dz’s will now get all anti Jeb Bush and GOPs because that will really get the DLC/D Party hacks attention and make them stop promoting Obama and the Clintons.
Because ObamaBush is/has been so UnBushLike. Which is a O/D Zealot Myth.Fable.Tall Tale.Delusion.