A pro-immigration Latino group is dropping the hammer on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is calling on the administration to round up 4 million immigrants who’ve overstayed their visa and “politely ask them to leave.”
Presente.org said that Bush’s comment over the weekend “amounts to nothing more than the failed self-deportation policies presented by the unsuccessful Mitt Romney campaign in 2012.”
Arturo Carmona, Executive Director of Presente.org, blasted Bush, who touched on immigration during a weekend speech to the National Automobile Dealers Association. “Jeb Bush is apparently putting immigrant- and Latino-bashing front and center for his presidential campaign,” he said.
In his speech, Bush said, “First and foremost we need to control our border.”
Then, he added, “The 40 percent of the people that have come here illegally came with a legal visa and overstayed their bounds. We ought to be able to figure out where they are and politely ask them to leave.”
Said Carmona, “We don’t care how ‘nice’ Republicans say their deportations policies are, the poll numbers show they will face a unified wall of opposition from Latino voters.”
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
