This is an important point you can't stress enough. This is why I for one find Trump's campaign so wonderful.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/music-to-trump-democrats-ears.html
He simply says publicly what the Republican establishment only allows to be said privately. On substance no one in the party has really explained what he said wrong. Yes, he said some nasty things about Mexicans but the policy implications are the same as the official GOP line.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html
What you're supposed to do as a GOP Presidential candidate is exactly what Jeb is doing. Say you are in favor of immigration reform but only when the border is secure. Now a secure border is like a True Scotsman: you can never find a real Scotsman and there is no border secure enough for the GOP.
So for Jeb to talk about 'legal status' for undocumented immigrants after the border is secure is tantamount to opposing legal status for any undocumented immigrants. It's the same thing. So all the criticism of Trump is hypocrisy.
"Cracking down on sanctuary cities, deporting immigrants who've overstayed their visas and installing more bases at the border would be key elements to Jeb Bush's immigration policy if elected president, the former Florida governor wrote Monday in a Medium post."
"Border patrol agents should have easier access to federal lands that sit on the border, he wrote."
"Currently, agents have to navigate byzantine environmental rules and regulations to access federal lands," he said. "Removing these restrictions would help untie the hands of our agents to patrol every inch of the border."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/politics/jeb-bush-immigration-policy-2016/
John Cochrane believes that too much regulation is a disaster to the economy and to what he calls freedom.
http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2015/08/rule-of-law-in-regulatory-state.html?showComment=1438476327458#c3814923297137066799
HT: Tom Brown
I guess that's another problem with regulations-they stop police agents from cracking down hard enough on immigration. There's a libertarian selling point.
Back to Jeb:
"Bush is one of the few Republican candidates willing to call for a path to legal status for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. He's spent the past few months explaining his position on the campaign trail, facing questions from voters who've heard about his view that falls largely outside of the conservative base."
"While he previously supported a path to citizenship, Bush now proposes going as far "legal status" only."
See, that's the tell. He's already backed off of a path to citizenship. A Jeb Bush Presidency would back off much further.
The Bush family has always been for a more humane immigration system, I agree. But his brother couldn't get anything done even with his own party in Congress and neither would Jeb.
What matters is not the idiosyncratic views of the Jeb as a Bush but the GOP party view which is dead set against immigration reform no matter how secure the border-and it's already secure. Jeb would get nothing done on immigration anymore than Trump or Walker or any other Republican President would with the best will in the world.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/music-to-trump-democrats-ears.html
He simply says publicly what the Republican establishment only allows to be said privately. On substance no one in the party has really explained what he said wrong. Yes, he said some nasty things about Mexicans but the policy implications are the same as the official GOP line.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/07/is-todays-gop-less-racist-than-in-1968.html
What you're supposed to do as a GOP Presidential candidate is exactly what Jeb is doing. Say you are in favor of immigration reform but only when the border is secure. Now a secure border is like a True Scotsman: you can never find a real Scotsman and there is no border secure enough for the GOP.
So for Jeb to talk about 'legal status' for undocumented immigrants after the border is secure is tantamount to opposing legal status for any undocumented immigrants. It's the same thing. So all the criticism of Trump is hypocrisy.
"Cracking down on sanctuary cities, deporting immigrants who've overstayed their visas and installing more bases at the border would be key elements to Jeb Bush's immigration policy if elected president, the former Florida governor wrote Monday in a Medium post."
"Border patrol agents should have easier access to federal lands that sit on the border, he wrote."
"Currently, agents have to navigate byzantine environmental rules and regulations to access federal lands," he said. "Removing these restrictions would help untie the hands of our agents to patrol every inch of the border."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/politics/jeb-bush-immigration-policy-2016/
John Cochrane believes that too much regulation is a disaster to the economy and to what he calls freedom.
http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.com/2015/08/rule-of-law-in-regulatory-state.html?showComment=1438476327458#c3814923297137066799
HT: Tom Brown
I guess that's another problem with regulations-they stop police agents from cracking down hard enough on immigration. There's a libertarian selling point.
Back to Jeb:
"Bush is one of the few Republican candidates willing to call for a path to legal status for many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country. He's spent the past few months explaining his position on the campaign trail, facing questions from voters who've heard about his view that falls largely outside of the conservative base."
"While he previously supported a path to citizenship, Bush now proposes going as far "legal status" only."
See, that's the tell. He's already backed off of a path to citizenship. A Jeb Bush Presidency would back off much further.
The Bush family has always been for a more humane immigration system, I agree. But his brother couldn't get anything done even with his own party in Congress and neither would Jeb.
What matters is not the idiosyncratic views of the Jeb as a Bush but the GOP party view which is dead set against immigration reform no matter how secure the border-and it's already secure. Jeb would get nothing done on immigration anymore than Trump or Walker or any other Republican President would with the best will in the world.
The only hope for IR is to get Democrats in every branch of government. Full stop.
P.S. They'd like his talk of securing the border in Britain. If the GOP were in Britain-to say nothing of France-they'd be in the mainstream on immigration. With all our problems with African Americans in our history we are a much more tolerant society than Europe which is full of bigotry for people that don't look like others.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2015/08/trump-really-could-win-in-britain.html
While I admit that American has very often fallen short of its ideals at least it has those ideals which mean a lot. In Europe they don't even have these ideals to begin with.
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