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The U.S. House of Representatives should pass the Senate's comprehensive
immigration reform package with a few additional requirements, former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush co-wrote in an opinion piece.
The Republican reiterated his stance that immigration reform needs to be
tailored to boost the ratio of visas issued for skilled workers and reduce
those granted for family members beyond spouses and minor children.
"Family preferences crowd out the work-based immigration this country needs,
" he co-wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal with Clint Bolick,
vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
The authors chided rules that force foreign students to leave after
graduating, rather than staying and contributing to the U.S. economy. "In
both high- and low-skilled industries, the actual alternative to importing
workers is not hiring more Americans but exporting jobs."
Last week the Senate passed a bipartisan bill, which includes a pathway to
citizenship for most of the country's 11 million undocumented workers and
tightens border security, in a 68-32 vote. About a third of Republicans
supported the measure.
Criticizing the pathway to citizenship provision and what they consider a
weak border security timeline, top House Republicans have firmly said they
have no plans to take up the bill but will craft their own legislation
instead.
Bush and Bolick, however, said the Senate bill covers most of the "flaws in
the current system" and does not "provide amnesty" or a "pardon."
"Overall, the bill satisfies a criterion that is essential to the rule of
law: It makes it easier to immigrate legally than illegally," they wrote.
But the House can make some improvements, they added, including border
security "triggers" that must be in place before undocumented workers can
start gaining legal status–an idea that has acceptance among many
conservative Republicans. Legislation should also strengthen civics
education, they proposed.
"New citizens should be required not only to learn English but to fully
understand the nature and workings of our democratic and free-enterprise
systems," they wrote.
Bush, considered by some as a potential 2016 presidential contender, has
long been an advocate for immigration reform. Speaking publicly about the
issue last month, he made headlines for an inarticulate reference to
immigrants' fertility rates, saying immigrants were "more fertile" and thus
a great benefit to American society.
immigration reform package with a few additional requirements, former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush co-wrote in an opinion piece.
The Republican reiterated his stance that immigration reform needs to be
tailored to boost the ratio of visas issued for skilled workers and reduce
those granted for family members beyond spouses and minor children.
"Family preferences crowd out the work-based immigration this country needs,
" he co-wrote in an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal with Clint Bolick,
vice president for litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
The authors chided rules that force foreign students to leave after
graduating, rather than staying and contributing to the U.S. economy. "In
both high- and low-skilled industries, the actual alternative to importing
workers is not hiring more Americans but exporting jobs."
Last week the Senate passed a bipartisan bill, which includes a pathway to
citizenship for most of the country's 11 million undocumented workers and
tightens border security, in a 68-32 vote. About a third of Republicans
supported the measure.
Criticizing the pathway to citizenship provision and what they consider a
weak border security timeline, top House Republicans have firmly said they
have no plans to take up the bill but will craft their own legislation
instead.
Bush and Bolick, however, said the Senate bill covers most of the "flaws in
the current system" and does not "provide amnesty" or a "pardon."
"Overall, the bill satisfies a criterion that is essential to the rule of
law: It makes it easier to immigrate legally than illegally," they wrote.
But the House can make some improvements, they added, including border
security "triggers" that must be in place before undocumented workers can
start gaining legal status–an idea that has acceptance among many
conservative Republicans. Legislation should also strengthen civics
education, they proposed.
"New citizens should be required not only to learn English but to fully
understand the nature and workings of our democratic and free-enterprise
systems," they wrote.
Bush, considered by some as a potential 2016 presidential contender, has
long been an advocate for immigration reform. Speaking publicly about the
issue last month, he made headlines for an inarticulate reference to
immigrants' fertility rates, saying immigrants were "more fertile" and thus
a great benefit to American society.
