The Hill
By Mario Trujillo
September 29, 2014
Former
Homeland Security Department secretary Janet Napolitano named former
Gov. Jeb Bush (R) as the Republican best suited to play a key role in
helping advance comprehensive
immigration reform.
"In
terms of political leadership, one person who has been out there is Jeb
Bush — former governor of Florida, often times spoken of as a
presidential candidate in 2016,
was part of a bipartisan report that came out a year, year and a half
ago, on the need for immigration reform, and the elements of real
immigration reform," she said Monday in an interview with Ozy.
Bush
has long been an advocate for immigration reform, coauthoring the book
Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution last year in which he
outlined his plan for
comprehensive reform.
"It
evidences a willingness to put the United States in a position to
continue to be that beacon around the world," Napolitano said.
Napolitano,
who now serves as president of the University of California system,
named immigration reform as her largest failure during her time in
public office, both
as a secretary and governor of Arizona.
She
said reform as failed because "the politics and cultural norms around
immigration are so complicated, and the Congress right now is so
ineffective, ineffective," she
said. "But never give up."
The
Senate passed a comprehensive package last year but it stalled in the
House. President Obama has vowed, in the face of Congressional inaction,
to use his authority
to act on certain aspects of immigration reform after the midterm
elections.
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