Posted on 08/27/2015 7:10:34 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush wrote the book on immigration. Donald Trump blusters about it and appeals to the worst impulses of Americans who feel threatened by the nation's increasing diversity that they are powerless to stop. It is up to the former Florida governor to take the high road on a smarter approach to immigration policy and to call out Trump's pandering pledge to "take back our country'' even as other Republican presidential candidates meekly fall in line with the bombastic baiting.
Bush ramped up his criticism of Trump's reckless immigration pledges this week at a campaign stop in a Texas border town. It is about time someone held the billionaire accountable. Bush called Trump's plan to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants and build a 2,000-mile wall along the Mexican border unrealistic and unaffordable. He unequivocally supported the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing citizenship to anyone born in this country, which Trump wants to overturn.
That is a responsible message on immigration, but it is a complicated one that is not easily packaged into sound bites on cable television and 140 characters on Twitter. Bush, who speaks Spanish and met his wife in Mexico, is comfortable in a culturally diverse community such as Florida and should keep playing to his strengths.
(Excerpt) Read more at home.tampabay.com ...
Where’s my barf bag when I need it?
*insert loud fart sound here*
Desperate times call for desperate Yebs
“Jeb Bush wrote the book on immigration. “
With a forward by the Chamber of Amnesty.
Editorializing no longer has an impact on elections. No one read (or can read) newspapers. They are whistling to the wind.
Once these “media” clowns throw out that same old “11 million” illegal alien number, I’m gone. I don’t have time for DemocRAT BS. They’ve been using that same number for the past 50 years.
And a preface by the Mexican government.
and there’s your reason nobody subscribes to newspapers anymore
And an afterward by Jorge Ramos.
“Responsible” for pushing out Establishment talking points maybe....
Yeb is “responsible” because he agrees with the leftists at this newspaper.
The Spanish translation is a bestseller in six Latin American countries!
Yeah, Tampa Bay Times. Keep calling Americans xenophobic anti-diversity rubes. That’s the ticket.
If I were Trump, I would read the first paragraph of this screed to his audience at his next nationally-televised event. He’d get another 5% bump in the polls.
“His six-point plan for securing the border offers workable solutions such as investing in more technology, ...”
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It’s drivel & crap like this that enrages AMERICANS who want their border enforced and defended from invading illegal aliens who thumb their noses at our laws & get on the gravy train at best & live a life of crime at worse, as soon as they set foot over the border illegally. Jeb is getting what he deserves for being a milquetoast puppet .... no support. He has no business being a candidate for president, much less getting elected by GOPe machinations.
Funniest thing is that the yobs who wrote this will be lining up to vote against Yeb!
Opening the borders to anyone and everyone without background checks and knowing who they are and what their purpose for coming here is or even knowing how many there are is “Responsible Immigration Reform”.
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