Jeb Bush Speaks to Hispanic Evangelicals About Faith, Family, and Political Failure
With his parents looking on, the likely candidate seeks common ground.
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HOUSTON — Standing in front of his father, mother, and more than 1,000 Hispanic evangelicals, probable Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush spoke Wednesday about his multi-ethnic family, the political failure that led him to the Catholic Church, and the academic success of Florida's Latino students.
Bush called immigration a "key element of our country's success," and repeated his call for laws to provide an "earned legal status" for many of the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants. "We are a nation of immigrants," the former Florida governor said at the annual meeting of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. "This is not the time to abandon something that makes us special and unique."