Posted on 06/08/2015 9:54:32 AM PDT by jimbo123
With the Senate tied in knots over a House-passed bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security while simultaneously blocking President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, a nearly two-year-old video was released that shows leading GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush explicitly contradicting a key Republican position on providing illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
First reported by CNN, the video shows Bush at an appearance at an event sponsored by the Hispanic Leadership Network in April 2013. Bush was asked about his position on a Senate immigration reform bill and, specifically, on offering citizenship to people brought to the United States as children -- commonly known as “Dreamers” after failed legislation called the DREAM Act that would have granted many of them legal residency.
“I’ve never felt like the sins of the parents should be ascribed to the children,” Bush says to the interviewer. “If the children always have to pay the price for the adults’ decisions they make – How fair is that? So, for people that have no country to go back to, which are many of the Dreamers, it’s ridiculous to think there shouldn’t be some accelerated path to citizenship. The [immigration reform] bill gets close to that and I think that’s great. And I think there is almost universal support for that.”
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fujb
I am working feverishly to defeat baby bush in the nomination.
Dear Jeb,
Just shut up already.
KC
Ridiculous?
I thought it was Heartless.
Oh well.
What’s ridiculous is the federal government’s refusal to enforce the immigration laws.
Has my vote!
This country needs another Bush in the white hut like it needs a third term of 0bama.
Hey Jeb,
These “Dreamers” are nothing more than imported gibmedats who will vote Democrat for the next 200 years.
Why do you and the Big Business fatcats refuse to honestly acknowledge that? As long as your quarterly balance sheet looks good while the USA tanks, you’re okay with that, huh?
Hey Jeb,
You might have more luck pandering to American citizens that can actually vote. Besides, the one illegal that was caught voting republican was deported already.
Opie
I, for one, am dying to hear Jeb’s Mexican wife speak.
Does she speak English?
Or Spanglish?
Jeb is doing this deliberately? Why not just come out in favor of abortion, gun control, and pedophilia if you really want to run your campaign onto the rocks? I’m sorry, I mean “appeal to Moderates”...
take and pass
This is how Jeb manages to stay off the sofa at night. I’d be on board for “repatriating” Columba and have her take Jethro with her. I’m not going to give him my vote under any circumstances.
“So, for people that have no country to go back to...”
No country? Where’d they come from?
Dreamers? Imagine? Halting advancing invaders is a requirement for a “free” republic. Fix your own misery at home, mehicans, ‘merkins.
ESADJB
Jeb’s crazier than the two swedish women who ran into highway traffic in Britain described on another thread.
Translation: Columbia is going to take me to the cleaners in a divorce if this doesn’t pass.
Denying jebby boy the nomination is NOT ridiculous. Surely having dozens of republicrat candidates for the next (s)election won’t cause any problems.
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