Republican presidential candidate former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush affirmed his stance on a path to citizenship for immigrants brought to the country by their parents without documentation, amid shouting protests during his speech at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Monday.
“Here is what I believe. I believe we need immigration reform,” Bush said, according to the National Journal, as protestors chanted, “No hope is not our vote.”
“I believe that Dream Act kids should have a path to citizenship,” Bush said. “I will continue to be consistently for it irrespective of what the political ramifications of that are.”
This was met with applause.
Bush, according to MSNBC, then took shots at frontrunner Donald Trump.
“Donald Trump apparently said I should not speak Spanish to them for some odd reason. They spoke in Spanish to me and I spoke in Spanish to them. They all speak English by the way, in case you were worried. They’re bilingual,” he said. “They’re going to be extraordinarily competitive.”
Well, that’ll end what little is left of Bush’s campaign then. Who’s next?
He should have said it in Spanish. Then the GOP base never would have heard about it.
It’s easy to take a stand FOR something (DREAM Act), if and it’s a big IF, it comes after an unachievable or a murky never-could-agree-on definition of the limiting condition of border “security”. Show some leadership and promote something unconditionally positive.
Jeb on Faux: What I said was only meant for Dreamers and not for Conservatives/Republicans.
This is good news for Chris Christie.