{"id":2472,"date":"2013-07-10T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2013-07-10T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T14:27:45","slug":"w-says-little-sadly-about-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2472","title":{"rendered":"W says little, sadly, about immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>What precisely did former President George W. Bush say about immigration reform?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out not much at all.<\/p>\n<p>The former president, speaking at a forum on immigration this week at his library-museum in Dallas called for a \u201cpositive\u201d outcome in the debate but said he won\u2019t get involved in policy specifics.<\/p>\n<p>Too bad about that.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/310087-bush-calls-for-reform-but-says-he-wont-enter-immigration-debate\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/310087-bush-calls-for-reform-but-says-he-wont-enter-immigration-debate\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/310087-bush-calls-for-reform-but-says-he-wont-enter-immigration-debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was rather hoping President Bush would have something specific to add to the discussion, given that he spoke well about immigration while he served as Texas governor from 1995 until 2000 and later as president. <\/p>\n<p>Bush has long thought to be on the side of true reformers, the folks who favored a \u201cpathway to citizenship\u201d for the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. That side of the debate already has won the first round with a decisive vote in the U.S. Senate to approve legislation that establishes that pathway while also shoring up border security.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives\u2019 Republican leadership \u2013 the individuals who run that chamber \u2013 are threatening to stall it (imagine that) if they can\u2019t get a majority of GOP members to sign on.<\/p>\n<p>President Bush has been quite circumspect in his public comments since leaving the White House in January 2009. He\u2019s refrained from criticizing his successor, Barack Obama, declaring that the president has a difficult enough job without being sniped at by those who served previously. I admire that about Bush.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 43rd president has something of value to add to the specifics of the current immigration debate. I would hope he\u2019d reconsider his reluctance to get involved and weigh in \u2013 constructively, of course.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What precisely did former President George W. Bush say about immigration reform? Turns out not much at all. The former president, speaking at a forum on immigration this week at his library-museum in Dallas called for a \u201cpositive\u201d outcome in the debate but said he won\u2019t get involved in policy specifics. Too bad about that. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=2472\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">W says little, sadly, about immigration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}