Jeb Bush Calls for Immigration Changes

[rick_reno]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/29/D8CU0Q281.html

CORAL GABLES, Fla.


Gov. Jeb Bush urged the federal government to change its visa and immigration policies Thursday, saying the country needs to avoid stifling international travel and commerce.

The governor said he recognized that the country had to tighten security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but said a better balance was needed.

"Now it's important to look at where we are and to make the necessary adjustments so that we don't choke off international travel. So that we don't choke off international commerce," he said during The Miami Herald's annual Americas Conference.

Florida especially understands that immigrants play an important role in renewing the country, he said.

"It is a good thing to have people who want to come to set up their business, to invest here, to use this as a platform for the expansion of their business, whether they're from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil or Texas."

Bush, a brother of President Bush, said he gets a lot of e-mails from frustrated people who go through Miami International Airport. He also said the federal government should expand scholarship programs for residents in Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions to come study in the U.S.

"The United States has actually pulled back after Sept. 11 with providing visas for foreign students," he said.

 

[R.H. Lee]

He could make a phone call. "Hey, bro, how about doing your job and closing the back door"?

 

[longeyes]

The governor said he recognized that the country had to tighten security after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but said a better balance was needed.

Let's see, national security on the one hand, inconveniencing rich Latin American "travelers" on the other... Seems about equal, right?

Grimly comical.

 

[obiwan1]

Actually MIA is considered easy to penetrate by illegals. He should go to Atlanta!

Wait a minute, didn't his wife get busted with $25k of undeclared clothes coming through Atlanta?....

 

[duckslayer]

He also said the federal government should expand scholarship programs for residents in Latin America, the Caribbean and other regions to come study in the U.S.

:banghead:

Jerk. How about expanding scholarship programs for the tax-paying American citizens so they can study here and not be in debt forever paying student loans.

 

[c_yeager]

Jerk. How about expanding scholarship programs for the tax-paying American citizens so they can study here and not be in debt forever paying student loans.

No kidding. As it is right now no American who actually works for a living can qualify for federal financial aid, so lets definatly encourage immigrants to take up all the seats in school in addition to all the welfare recipiants. I also find it amusing that a resident of Mexico can get in-state tuition at California public schools, however a resident of Oregon cannot.

 

[bountyhunter]

Gov. Jeb Bush urged the federal government to change its visa and immigration policies Thursday, saying the country needs to avoid stifling international travel and commerce.

Florida especially understands that immigrants play an important role in renewing the country, he said.

Spoken like a man who doesn't have to live in southern Florida where the Cuban mafia flourishes courtesy of the floatilla of thugs that arrived there about 20 years ago in the mariel "boatlift".

Funny how rich people always talk about the "important role immigrants play" because they need them as a source for cheap labor, but they don't seem to worry about the problems they cause or the burden they throw onto the many systems that have to be paid for by the taxpayer.

I guess living in a mansion behind large electrified fences gives one a little different perspective on the issue..........

 

[fourays2]

I assumed he was calling for the elimination of all immigration requirements.

 

[feedthehogs]

southern Florida where the Cuban mafia flourishes

You watched way too many episodes of Miami Vice or watched Scarface one to many times.

As a resident of South Florida for 35 years and does business in Palm Beach, Broward and Dade counties, ya don't know what you are talking about.

There are Cuban thugs just as there are white, black, mexican and just about every other brand floating around in S Fla. Nothing represents a Cuban Mafia.

Do the Cubans have a large presence in Dade and broward counties, yes.
Are they are a well organized political force to contend with, yes and that is all.

Most of the Muriel boat lift people were housed like dogs in the Chrome ave detention center under the bridges in Miami. While some were criminals let out of Cuban prisons, most were not.

You all complain so much about the latest business not allowing CCW on the property and get away with it. How would you like to be thrown into prison for saying the same thing without a trial and for who knows how long under a Castro regime?

Talk to an old time Cuban who lived under that stuff. Not one of born in the US spoiled kids with Cuban blood.

Funny how rich people always talk about the "important role immigrants play" because they need them as a source for cheap labor, but they don't seem to worry about the problems they cause or the burden they throw onto the many systems that have to be paid for by the taxpayer.

Bush was talking about investor/business type people, not people to clean your house or cut your grass.
Is this the first thing you think of when you hear the word immigrant?

Foreign money is very important to this economy.

Funny how people who never seem to rub more than a few bucks together at one time always put down the rich.

 

[lostone1413]

Trouble is the rich got rich at the expense of the middle class who only has a couple buck to rub together

 

[Standing Wolf]

It is a good thing to have people who want to come to set up their business, to invest here, to use this as a platform for the expansion of their business, whether they're from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil or Texas.

Well, yeah, but first things first: we're giving priority to the millions upon millions of welfare and felony cases from Mexico.