How Hillary Clinton can outbid Jeb Bush on immigration

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In the same interview where Jeb Bush echoed his brother on Iraq, he also took a very similar line on immigration. With Scott Walker going in exactly the opposite direction, expect this to be a hotly contested issue in the Republican primaries.

If there is one person who can make the former Florida governor look more conservative on immigration, it is Hillary Clinton. Bush wants to pass comprehensive immigration reform through Congress; Clinton wants to go further than Barack Obama on executive action. Bush wants some kind of legal status for illegal immigrants already in the United States; Clinton says nothing less than a full path to citizenship will do.

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