Posted on 04/06/2014 11:18:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush discussing immigration reform on Fox News this Sunday:
"I'm going to say this and it will be on tape, and so be it. The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally, they come to our country because their family's dad who loves their children was worried that their children didn't have food on the table, and they wanted to make sure their family was intact. And they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony. it's kind of -- it's a -- it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that's a different kind of crime that should be, there should be a price paid, but it shouldn't be -- it shouldn't rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families. And the idea that we're not going to fix this but with with comprehensive reform ends up trapping these people, when they could make a great contribution for their own their families but also for us.
So I think we need to get beyond the harsh political rhetoric to a better place. The great number of people who come to this country come because they have no opportunities in other places. They may love their country, but they come here because they want to provide for their families. And they can make a contribution to our country if we actually organized ourselves in a better way."
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All the immigration questions is about the Brown people in Mexico.
Race is an issue in the debate because we are talking mostly about the brown people.
And there is racism on both sides, probably more on their side, but some on our side.
“All the immigration questions is about the Brown people in Mexico. Race is an issue in the debate because we are talking mostly about the brown people.”
I see. So the fact that Mexicans are a brown race makes it impossible for white Americans to want them prosecuted for breaking the law.
Would that apply to white Mexicans as well?
Or would you let the rest of us demand that the law be enforced against them because they aren’t brown?
Seriously, staytrue, it is you who is injecting race into this issue, in the race baiting fashion that leftists have done for decades.
Playing the race card doesn’t win you any debating points, it just means that you are trying to silence something that you don’t want to have said.
Illegal aliens are foreign nationals who are breaking American law, they are not a color and they are not a race.
“Aren’t American politicians suppose to represent American citizens?”
They are supposed to. But most of the current ones prefer to represent law breaking foreign nationals. The pay is better.
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And the Bush’s are kingpins in the Republican party....
It’s all I need to know....
My sentiments exactly.
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