Posted on 05/01/2015 3:20:58 AM PDT by Din Maker
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared Wednesday that 11 million immigrants in the country illegally should have an opportunity to stay, wading yet again into his party's contentious immigrant debate.
"We're a nation of immigrants," Bush said at the National Christian Hispanic Leadership Conference that brought several hundred Hispanic evangelical leaders to Houston this week. "This is not the time to abandon something that makes us special and unique."
A successful immigration overhaul is more than simply strengthening the border, Bush said, referring to "11 million people that should come out from the shadows and receive earned legal status." He said such immigrants should be required to pay taxes, work and not receive government benefits.
Republicans have struggled to win over the nation's surging Hispanic population in recent years.
Not since the 2004 re-election campaign of President George W. Bush, Jeb's older brother, has a Republican presidential candidate earned as much as 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. Mitt Romney earned a dismal 27 percent in losing what was widely considered a winnable 2012 contest.
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Not until the border is secure.
I wonder if any contender will have the intestinal fortitude to declare that ALL illegal aliens must go back where they came FRom and go through the legal process to enter this country?
When will it we begin to prosecute EVERY illegal alien that is identified?
Ophonybama is encouraging illegal aliens to come to America and is allowing them to stay, despite laws against such behavior.
Ophonybama is stealthily importing multitudes of Moslems.
Ophonybama is intentionally fomenting racial discord and class warfare.
He has intentionally attempted to destroy America, and unless he is brought to heel in the near term, may just do so!
And, you stupid GOPes want to exacerbate the problem?
All of you who support”Amnesty” can kiss my ass!
We do not want your kind in power, and will not stand for it!
You will not get our vote, EVER!
I really don’t want to listen to the pontifications of a fat Mexican. If I did, I’d just drive down to the Home Depot.
If Jeb or Hillary get elected it will effect the complete demise of our once great nation. FEMA is sending letters to illegals encouraging them to obtain citizenship in order to vote in upcoming elections. The fact is millions without citizenship will be voting in next year’s election.
>>11 million people that should come out from the shadows and receive earned legal status.”
I agree. The key is “earned”. The illegal invaders haven’t earned anything except a bus ticket home. Those who follow our laws earned a chance at citizenship.
It hasn’t been 11M since the mid 1990s. It is likely 40M now, and that estimate might be low.
For every single cockroach you step on a hundred flee back to Ciudad de Mexico.
His wife is Latina, so he thinks it’s okay for her entire family of 11 million to stay. FUJB.
These days, that means letting the entire Western Hemisphere into the country and then giving them Welfare, Food Stamps, housing and Obamacare. That's pretty freakin' unique.
Disagree Jebbie. LEGAL immigration is what makes us special and unique. The CRIMINAL ALIENS have no desire to assimilate into our society. They are here for jobs, $$ and government handouts. They do not seem to have any desire to make the US, long term, a better place to live.
“Just” 11 million, Jebby? What about the other 20 million?
OK, how about we also try giving a chance at encouraging them to go home!
Cross-over Democrats will have to elect this guy, ‘cause I ain’t voting for him!
Bush is a pale pastel.
Somehow, someway, We the People MUST make America so inhospitable to illegal aliens and Moslems that they will self-deport!
If we do not, the USA is doomed to become just another third world banana republic!
People in FL and TX, and probably Red Hampshire too, can’t wait for a Jebbie administration that will never be.
Mortimer Zuckerman said on ‘’The McLaughlin Group’’ a few weeks ago that a Jebbie-HRC race would be so wonderful that he would rejoice with either as President.
What if we kicked you out of here Jeb Bush, then you can take your 11 million (actually 50 million) illegal Nationals with you back to Mexico and start your own socialist Marxist government in Mexico and demand civil rights for each of them, feed them, provide free everything at the expense of the Mexican government!
Problem solved!
12 million was the number used in 1997 when Clinton was President and there are many more here in the US since then.
Mexico admits 18 million of their people alone have left for el Norte from the year 2000 to the year 2010.
Immigration is a real serious issue we need to deal with, but the lies of the politicians and their propagandists on the issue lead one to conclude that they are up to no good. and that the end result other schemes is not going to be good for American citizens
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