Election 2016: Jeb Bush's Immigration, Education Policies Remain Problems

International Business Times ^ | 5/1/15 | Ginger Gibson

[jimbo123]

Jeb Bush is going to spend the next year defending his positions on issues that don’t always sit well with the conservative wing of his party. And on Thursday, he test-drove his defense of immigration and Common Core at an event organized by the conservative National Review.

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Bush gave a full-throated defense of his views on immigration Thursday, saying that the nation suffers when high-skilled and low-skilled workers aren’t allowed to legally immigrate into the country. “You need younger more dynamic people inside of our economy that are productive to get to 4 percent growth,” Bush argued.

He knew the crowd before him -- Washington’s more conservative thinkers -- wouldn’t necessarily agree with him on the immigration front. “Maybe I’m stubborn. I’m willing to listen to other views on this. If we’re going to grow economically, then we need to figure out how to get this fixed,” Bush said, drawing applause from about half the room.

Bush outlined his proposal, which would limit the number of family members immigrants are allowed to petition for to come legally to the country. Currently, someone may petition for their immediate family, spouse and children, but also their adult siblings and parents, a situation he called “chain immigration.” In response, Bush said, caps would be placed on how many immigrants could come from some countries because “half the country would come if they were allowed to.”

Bush wants to limit family petitions down to immediate family members and then expand the number of skilled workers who can get a visa. “Canada stole our immigration plan and made it better. We should resteal ... and make it better,” he said.

Bush also pushed back at the conservative proposal to completely lock down the nation’s border before allowing amnesty or new immigrants.

[jimbo123]

Bush go away.

[TomGuy]

Immigration and Education policies remain a problem?

At least, so far, he is sticking with them. Some of the other wannabes have tiptoed all around the immigration (illegal immigration) issue.

I don’t support another Bush, including Jeb, but I do wonder about the sincerity of the seeming policy changes of some of the others.

Rubio, especially, is one who claims to have seen the light, but his history, even before being in the US Senate, indicates he has always been a supporter of illegal immigration.

Isn’t it Cruz who asks ‘when did they stand up for or against a certain issue?’

[Sybeck1]

This guy has a hard on for Hispanics