Crossing Our Borders Illegally Is Not An Act of Love

I think Jeb Bush has sealed his fate and any future aspirations of running for any national public office.  While I realize that he is married to a Latin wife and he himself speaks Spanish, his position on the issue of immigration is nothing more than a gratuitous attempt to placate Latin interests at the expense of American interests.  Obviously, Jeb has never considered the adage that two wrongs do not make a right.

As someone who has two Latins by marriage in my family who have gone through the process to become Americans, I believe that I can speak from a knowledgeable and unbiased perspective concerning immigration and illegal immigration.  I am reminded of the words of Theodore Roosevelt when he said: "no man is above the law and no man is below it and we ask no man's permission when we require him to obey it."  We certainly need more of that direction in today's word, as we do an adherence to his other famous quote.

We should insist that if the immigrant who comes here does in good faith become an

American and assimilates himself to us he shall be treated on an exact equality with every one else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birth-place or origin.

But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

Jeb Bush: Many illegal immigrants come out of an ‘act of love’

"A great country ought to know where those folks are and politely ask them to leave," he said, adding later that properly targeting people who overstay visas "would restore people's confidence" in the nation's immigration system.
"There are means by which we can control our border better than we have. And there should be penalties for breaking the law," he added. "But the way I look at this -- and I'm going to say this, and it'll be on tape and so be it. The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families -- the dad who loved their children -- was worried that their children didn’t have food on the table. And they wanted to make sure their family was intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime that there should be a price paid, but it shouldn’t rile people up that people are actually coming to this country to provide for their families."