GOP Presidential Hopefuls Talk Immigration at Conservative Summit

The conservative National Review Institute Ideas Summit took place Thursday through Saturday last week. It was an “invitation only” event, which might explain why you didn’t attend.

But GOP presidential hopefuls Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio were present. And David Weigel over at Bloomberg has the skinny on what the two said about immigration. Weigel provides the following quotes:

• Jindal: “I do think we need to increase the number of people coming through the front door… One of the dumbest things we do right now is in the number of people with advanced degrees that we kick out.”

• Rubio: “Among the problems I have with the groups that advocate for immigration reform—some of them—is that they approach this debate with the argument that they have rights… It’s not a right. You’re appealing to our best interests as a country. You’re appealing to our morality as a people. But you can’t appeal to a right. There is no right to illegally immigrate anywhere in the world.”

It looks like immigration will be front and center in the GOP primaries.

-KitJ