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Editorial: Jeb Bush the responsible one on immigration
Tampa Bay Times ^ | 8/25/15 | Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board

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 ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anchorbabies; deportjebbush; designatedloser; illegals; mexico
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1 posted on 08/27/2015 7:10:34 AM PDT by jimbo123
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Where’s my barf bag when I need it?


2 posted on 08/27/2015 7:12:30 AM PDT by Catsrus (The Great Wall of Trump - coming to a southern border near you.)
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To: jimbo123

*insert loud fart sound here*


3 posted on 08/27/2015 7:12:37 AM PDT by skeeter
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Desperate times call for desperate Yebs


4 posted on 08/27/2015 7:12:45 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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“Jeb Bush wrote the book on immigration. “

With a forward by the Chamber of Amnesty.


5 posted on 08/27/2015 7:13:26 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: jimbo123

Editorializing no longer has an impact on elections. No one read (or can read) newspapers. They are whistling to the wind.


6 posted on 08/27/2015 7:14:58 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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To: jimbo123

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.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 7:15:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Cecil the Lion says, Stop the Slaughter of the Baby Humans!!!)
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To: headstamp 2

And a preface by the Mexican government.


8 posted on 08/27/2015 7:16:33 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: jimbo123

and there’s your reason nobody subscribes to newspapers anymore


9 posted on 08/27/2015 7:17:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: onedoug

And an afterward by Jorge Ramos.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 7:17:33 AM PDT by jimbo123
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“Responsible” for pushing out Establishment talking points maybe....


11 posted on 08/27/2015 7:17:55 AM PDT by uncitizen (i hate gutless people, too.)
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To: onedoug

Yeb is “responsible” because he agrees with the leftists at this newspaper.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 7:21:14 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: jimbo123; Liz; Tennessee Nana; Norm Lenhart
¡Viva Cheb!
13 posted on 08/27/2015 7:30:12 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: headstamp 2

The Spanish translation is a bestseller in six Latin American countries!


14 posted on 08/27/2015 7:32:50 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: jimbo123

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.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 7:33:51 AM PDT by Chaguito
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“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.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 7:34:06 AM PDT by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer loss)
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Funniest thing is that the yobs who wrote this will be lining up to vote against Yeb!


17 posted on 08/27/2015 7:34:45 AM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Donald was at 25 but Jebbie polled a big, whole 5 percent
after the debate...... so quit being mean to Little Jebbie, huh?......


18 posted on 08/27/2015 7:35:13 AM PDT by Liz
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19 posted on 08/27/2015 7:46:44 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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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”.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 7:56:04 AM PDT by bonehead4freedom
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