So it's okay to commit a crime - and yes, illegally entering this nation is a crime - as long as you're only doing it to make $ cause you love your family. Am I allowed to steal bread from walmart cause we're hungry? Am I allowed to pickpocket old ladies cause the gas bill is due? I can see if Jeb says he supports amnesty because, well, repubs want those hispanic votes. But saying it's okay to break the law because their home country sucks? Hey, here's an idea... maybe you take all that energy you're going to put into sneaking across, forging social security documents, and working here illegally into MAKING YOUR OWN COUNTRY BETTER. Open a business in mexico, bust your ass, create demand and build up your own community. Jeb thinks it's easier just to leave the shithole and start over here.
Former Florida Governor and potential Republican presidential nominee Jeb Bush stated his remarks on illegal immigration during a Sunday interview calling unlawful border crossings, “an act of love.” The remarks came during a discourse about the 25th anniversary of his father’s presidency. Notably, Bush stated that those who travel across the border for the survival of their families should be handled in a different fashion than those who overstay visas or illegally cross U.S. borders.
In a time when both Republicans and Democrats are embattled with their respective parties in the attempt to articulate an inclusive policy towards immigration, neither political party has surfaced with a solution. As millions of illegal immigrants have come to work and reside with the borders of the United States without legal status, only the two most polarizing sides of a resolution have come forth, amnesty and condemnation. Insofar as both ideas have been discussed at the political dinner table, neither open a dialogue on those who come to the Promised Land in a search of a better life when running from tyranny and repression.
Fox News anchor Shannon Bream asked Bush about his thoughts on the policy being forged to solve America’s immigration problems. He stated the Senate has made, “a good effort,” in regards to last year’s bipartisan bill that proposed new measures ensuring those who overstay visas to leave the country.
“A great country ought to know where those folks are and politely ask them to leave,” Bush added. A nation that properly targets those who violate immigration law by overstaying their legal welcome, “would restore people’s confidence,” he said referring to the faltering U.S. immigration policy.
He then spoke about the broad nature of targeting those who cross the border unlawfully. Not all who cross the border come to take advantage of the system, not all who traverse oceans, rivers, and mountains come be ill means. “It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family,” Bush stated. The way he sees it is that those who cross do it not because they couldn’t legally, “they come because of their families”, he said. The naturalization process take years to complete – a much longer time than what some have when pressed with harsh economic and political repression.
