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Jeb Bush said in an interview that he would not immediately move to repeal President Obama's executive order on immigration - suggesting he would instead wait for a new law to be passed addressing the matter.
In an interview with Megyn Kelly that is to be shown Monday night on Fox News, Mr. Bush said that rather than overturning the order, he believed in "passing meaningful reform of immigration and make it part of it."
The president's executive order seeks to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Most presidential candidates in the Republican field either oppose Mr. Obama's order on the merits - balking at letting undocumented immigrants stay in the country - or consider Mr. Obama's actions a gross overreach of executive power. One candidate, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, said he would nullify the order upon taking office if elected president.
Mr. Bush, who speaks Spanish and whose wife, Columba, was born and raised in Mexico, played down the potential perils that a Republican candidate seeking the party's nomination might face by taking a more moderate stand on immigration.
"If you've been here for an extended period of time, you have no nexus to the country of your parents," Mr. Bush says in the interview, a transcript of which was obtained by Bloomberg Politics. "What are we supposed to do? Marginalize these people forever?"
And by suggesting that he would let the executive order stand until Congress passed a law dealing with the issue, Mr. Bush was potentially setting himself up for a long wait:
Congress has repeatedly failed to act on immigration reform, despite a 2013 bipartisan effort that Senator Marco Rubio, another Florida Republican and an announced candidate for president, helped lead. The order is currently on hold, having been blocked in a lower federal court, leaving it now before the appeals court.
Source: nytimes
In an interview with Megyn Kelly that is to be shown Monday night on Fox News, Mr. Bush said that rather than overturning the order, he believed in "passing meaningful reform of immigration and make it part of it."
The president's executive order seeks to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. Most presidential candidates in the Republican field either oppose Mr. Obama's order on the merits - balking at letting undocumented immigrants stay in the country - or consider Mr. Obama's actions a gross overreach of executive power. One candidate, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, said he would nullify the order upon taking office if elected president.
Mr. Bush, who speaks Spanish and whose wife, Columba, was born and raised in Mexico, played down the potential perils that a Republican candidate seeking the party's nomination might face by taking a more moderate stand on immigration.
"If you've been here for an extended period of time, you have no nexus to the country of your parents," Mr. Bush says in the interview, a transcript of which was obtained by Bloomberg Politics. "What are we supposed to do? Marginalize these people forever?"
And by suggesting that he would let the executive order stand until Congress passed a law dealing with the issue, Mr. Bush was potentially setting himself up for a long wait:
Congress has repeatedly failed to act on immigration reform, despite a 2013 bipartisan effort that Senator Marco Rubio, another Florida Republican and an announced candidate for president, helped lead. The order is currently on hold, having been blocked in a lower federal court, leaving it now before the appeals court.
Source: nytimes
