Jeb Bush Leads Fight for Immigration Reform

[LeighAnn]

Source: US News & World Report

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and two of his brother's former administration aides are taking the lead to push Washington to consider a new comprehensive and compassionate immigration reform, the kind former President Bush failed to deliver on.


According to a release just sent to Whispers, Jeb Bush will join former Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez and Alfonso Aguilar, former chief of the U.S. Office of Citizenship, and others to get immigration reform out of the Senate and before the House. Under an earlier agreement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised to take up the measure first since that's where it got stuck during the Bush administration.

What's to be considered is still an open question, but Jeb Bush and his gang are clearly interested in the type of reform his brother pushed that includes tighter borders and a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already in the nation. Here's what we received:

Jeb Bush, Conservative Leaders Call on Congress, President to Act on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Evangelical, Business and Political Leaders Discuss Strategies to Build Conservative Support

On Thursday, April 29th at 2:00 PM EDT, hundreds of conservative grassroots advocates will join a nationwide strategy call with key business and Evangelical leaders to share convictions around the need for immigration reform this year and discuss plans for moving the issue forward. As tens of thousands of activists plan to march for immigration reform on May 1st, conservative leaders will discuss work that conservatives can engage in to increase pressure on the President and key Republicans in the Senate to move on immigration reform now. The call is open to the press.


Read more: http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/washington-whispers/2010/04/28/jeb-bush-leads-fight-for-immigration-reform.html

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[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. Yeah, go fuck yourself Jeb Crow. nt

[movonne]

15. The bush family is back...with george and laura's books out and

jeb out and about...we will never be rid of the bush crime family..

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Yeah, they're like herpes. nt

[RandomThoughts]

2. So now I have to say something nice about Jeb Bush.

It would only be fair, it is an honorable position to take. :)

Not sure if I agree or disagree with there immigration legislation ideas.




He did say he was against the Arizona imigration law earlier, so that is an honarable thing.

[LeighAnn]

4. Bush was all about softening immigration laws before 9-11

From the Wayback Machine

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/07/10/bush.newyork/index.html

I have to admit, when I saw the Jeb Bush headline I thought I was in bizarro world for a second

[happygoluckytoyou]

12. BUSHs don't give a fuck how we get cheap labor... only which side the maid is buttering their bread

IT IS NOT LIKE THE BUSH FAMILY ARE ACTUALLY CONSERVATIVE.... THEY ARE OPPORTUNISTS....

SMALL DIFFERENCE BUT CONSERVATIVES ACTUALLY HAVE BELIEFS AND LOYALTIES (STOOPID AS THEY MAY BE)

[FreakinDJ]

3. Yep - Jeb will run in 2012

[Frustratedlady]

5. Is Jeb running for 2012 already?

Well, I suppose he would have to start pretty early, considering all the mud he has to shovel that his brother left behind.

On the other hand, maybe he's as sick of the "No" crowd as everyone else is and he's lighting a fire under them to get them to move.

[imurhuckleberry]

7. Each time a Bush has been in the White House there has been a taxpayer funded financial bail-out

A good reason to NEVER vote for another Bush as president...as if there weren't already enough ... but with this tax-payer financial bail-out history ... rock solid proof.

Bush 1 ... Savings and Loan Scandal

Bush 2 ... Complete Financial Meltdown

[monmouth]

6. Puffing up that ole resume, I see. If Charlie Crist wins the senate seat

that would be a delightful slapdown to Jeb. He is definitely revving up for '12..

[Walk away]

8. These Bush boys are always married to criminals.

I think Jeb and his wife may have their own problems with borders.

Columba Bush is the Wife of Florida governor Jeb Bush

In June 1999 Columba Bush was thwarted at Atlanta International Airport attempting to smuggle $19,000 in French clothing and jewelry into the United States without declaring the purchases. Despite the fact that the U.S. customs officers gave her two opportunities to amend the form, Bush declined. Then they found the receipts in her purse. Bush wrote a check for $4,100 to cover the fine (three times the duty amount) and went on her way. A few days later she claimed her crime had been entirely inadvertent, calling it "an awful mistake" and declaring: "It's an accident and I regret it with all my heart."

<http://www.nndb.com/people/780/000052624/>

[dflprincess]

9. Will we never be free of this family? n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Not as long as they have Kennedy-Envy (and greed).

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. The ole "compassion" canard.

:chuckle:

[elfin]

13. Just wants Dems to be associated with this hot button issue come Nov.

He is a lying a-hole like the rest of his family.

He needs to put up HIS suggested bill and urge Rethugs to take it on. Not a chance.

[superconnected]

14. As long as they can deport him back to Nazi Germany, I'm cool with this.