New York Times
By Gerry Mullany
May 11, 2015
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.
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