Jeb Bush on Immigration

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Jeb Bush still hasn’t officially announced a run for the presidency in 2016. He’s apparently still “actively explor[ing] the possibility.”

That hasn’t stopped him from acting like a candidate.

Tomorrow he’ll be holding a town hall meeting in Reno, Nevada. (Departing from the Democratic party’s love of Vegas.) Saturday, he’ll be holding another in Dubuque, Iowa.

And Monday, he appeared on Fox’s The Kelly File to talk about, among other things, immigration.

Click here to watch one clip (starting at 5:38). Highlights include: 

• “Illegal immigration ought to be punished by… earning legal status over an extended period of time” (by paying fines, learning English, waiting).
• “Self deportation” is “not practical” nor is “rounding people up door to door.”
• He supports a “path to legalized status” though not necessarily citizenship.
• He supports expanding “economic immigrants” and narrowing family migration.
• He supports driver’s licenses and in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, saying “What what are we supposed to do? Marginalize these people forever?”
• He wants to “fix” the immigration system so that “legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration”
• He would “absolutely, of course” overturn President Obama’s “unconstitutional” executive action on immigration.
• He believes “a lot of people can be persuaded” on the issue of immigration.

-KitJ