New York Times
By Michael Barbaro
August 25, 2015
Jeb
Bush offered a concise explanation Tuesday morning of how his plan to
tackle illegal immigration differs from Donald Trump’s. His answer,
prompted by a question from
a member of the audience during a town hall in Englewood, Colo., is
excerpted below:
Mr.
Trump believes you can just round people up. And that it’s an easy
thing to do, ’cause he’s a successful guy and he’ll just have successful
people do it and it will
all work out.
Well,
the cost of this will be extraordinary. It will disrupt community life.
It doesn’t embrace American values that I think should be respected.
It’s not a practical
plan. …
What
I’ve proposed is for the 11 million, or whatever the number is, of
undocumented workers, illegal immigrants – call them what you want –
there ought to be a path to
earned legal status. Where you pay a fine. You have a provisional work
permit. Where you work; you don’t receive federal assistance. The law
doesn’t allow that now. … And over an extended period of time you earn
legal status. And that, I think, is the better
approach, the more realistic approach to deal with this issue than to
say we are just going to round people up or create conditions so harsh
that they leave. …
The
problem with the Trump plan is that it’s not a conservative plan. It is
not practical. It will cost hundreds of billions of dollars. And it’s
not going to happen,
either. It’s not possible to do it. He has proposed eliminating
remittances. So who is going to decide who is legally remitting money
back to their families in other countries? Are we going to go
door-by-door and just do this? It’s just not practical at all.
The
other thing I believe is that children who came here because their
parents came here illegally should have a different path. A path of
earned citizenship status. Dream
Act kids ought to be treated differently.
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