Jeb Bush unveils border security, immigration reform plan

“That’s where we land to get it done”, Bush told reporters last week in Orlando, talking about immigration reform. “One has to ask whether he is more interested in providing a wedge issue for his party than offering a solution for the country”.

The “while you were out” sticky note, indicating that Jeb Bush was trying to reach his older brother on October. 16, 2001.

He also calls for a crackdown on the so-called sanctuary cities that not honor requests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold inmates suspected of immigration violations.

Fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has seized on the fatal and apparently random shooting of a woman in San Francisco to criticize sanctuary cities.

He also supported identifying and deporting immigrants who have overstayed their visas and proposed creating a biometric exit system that would help officials locate such individuals in the future. While there is reason to doubt that such cities are quite as bad at enforcing federal immigration law as Trump and others suggest, they are the flavor of the month, and Bush has signed on.

Bush argued that improving existing roads that border agents use would improve the situation, adding that “new roads are needed on the border to secure access to remote and rugged terrain to interdict smugglers”. Bush has said he won’t spot on his view points while he looks for the GOP nomination for leader whether or not these pricing him politically.

Instead, Bush called for “a rigorous path” to legal status “over an extended period of time”, a path that includes paying fines and taxes, passing a criminal background check, learning English, working with provisional work authorization and not receiving federal government assistance.

Bush acknowledges that “there is no rational plan to deport millions of people that the American people would support”, a reference to the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country, the expulsion of whom is impractical.

Bush requires withholding federal government police activites money for protection highly urbanized cities that is actually “undermine fed immigration laws”. “It would disrupt communities and families and could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars”.