NBC News
By Suzanna Gamboa
June 15, 2015
Jeb
Bush declared immigration reform would be solved by congressional
action not presidential action by the next president as he joined the
field of GOP candidates in
the 2016 race for president Monday.
Bush's
comments came in response to immigration activists who protested in
bright yellow T-shirts with letters that when standing together said
"LEGAL STATUS IS NOT ENOUGH"
at Bush's announcement in Miami.
"Just
so that our friends know, the next president of the United States will
pass meaningful immigration reform so that will be solved, not by
executive order," Bush said
to cheers.
The
Senate approved an immigration bill in 2013 but the GOP-led House
refused to consider it and did not advance any of its own bills to floor
vote, wanting to avoid going
to a conference committee to negotiate with the Senate on immigration
reform.
President
Barack Obama deferred an aggressive push on immigration until his
second term but in 2012 used executive authority to protect immigrants
who have been in the
country illegally since they were young children from deportation. The
third anniversary of that program coincided with Monday's announcement
by Bush.
Obama
has tried to expand that protection from deportation to millions more
immigrants here illegally but the programs, which also would provide
work permits, are tied
up in court.
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