Wondering What Jeb Bush\’s solution to the (mostly Mexican) illegal alien situation is?
Here\’s your answer, via the following excerpt from Ben Kamisar\’s article at thehill.com:
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush wants the 11 million immigrants in America illegally to have a pathway to legal status, he told Telemundo Monday in a Spanish-language interview.
“For The 11 million people [undocumented immigrants in America], they must come out of the shadows, receive a work visa, start paying taxes and also pay a small fine, learn English, don\’t receive government benefits, but they come out of the shadows and they receive legal status after some time,” he said in the interview. Excerpts of the interview aired Monday, while the rest will show on Sunday.
Bush promised that he would prioritize immigration reform if elected and panned President Obama for failing to do so when he had a super majority in Congress.
“He likes to talk about this as a political topic, because it wins votes. He thinks that way instead of solving the problem,” Bush said.
Some people on the right are calling this amnesty. Technically, they are correct.
Some people on the left are calling it a pathway that is so punitive, few if any illegals would ever agree to it. I\’m not sure about that because, however difficult this might make things, it is a way to, in Bush\’s words, “come out of the shadows”.
That said, however, I am 100% sure that advocacy groups for illegals (who, I assure you, hate my use of that term), would be screaming that it is way too much to ask.
Personally, I have no answers. This is one bodaciously difficult issue. But, flawed though it may be, Bush\’s solution is the best I\’ve seen so far.
If you have something better – something that doesn\’t just make you feel good but is WORKABLE, feel free to let us in on it.
