Jeb Bush: Illegal Immigration "An Act Of Love"

by JASmius

I don't think Jeb is seriously interested in a presidential run if he's tossing out verbal chum like this into the political waters.  He couldn't infuriate the GOP grassroots more flagrantly if he publicly embraced ObamaCare:

Jeb Bush, a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016, said on Sunday that illegal immigrants who come to the United States to provide for their families are not committing a felony but an "act of love." 

In comments at odds with the views of many in his party, Bush, the son of the 41st president and brother of the 43rd, said of the divisive immigration issue: "I think we need to kind of get beyond the harsh political rhetoric to a better place. 

"I'm going to say this and it will be on tape and so be it," Bush said in an interview with Fox News host Shannon Bream in an event at the Texas presidential library of his father, George H.W. Bush. 

"The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn't come legally ... 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. 

Bush, 61, added: "I honestly think that that is a different kind of crime. 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."

"Act of love"?  Perhaps for some illegals it is, though sure as hell not for all of them.  But that doesn't matter; what matters is they're breaking the law, and that law must be enforced, including deportation, just like every other country on the planet does it.  The defense of border control and national sovereignty isn't "harsh rhetoric," it's about national self-preservation.  A country that refuses to control its borders and preserve the meaning of citizenship within them is not a country at all.  Historically nations that allowed themselves to be passively overrun by foreign peoples soon ceased being nations.

Somebody needs to ask 'Pubbies like Jeb Bush just exactly what they think it means to be an American, what they think it should mean, and where this amnesty-propelled stampede of Hispanics into the GOP column has been hiding for all these years.  Because its absence is most conspicuous, indeed.