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Jeb Bush's defense of immigration reform is already changing the race, whether or not he opts to try a Bush three-peat in 2016. He's flushed a highly divisive issue out into the open.

Jeb Bush is going to run for president in 2016, unless he decides that he wont. Or is it the other way around hes out, but reserves the right to jump in? In any case thats the (hazy) bottom line from the ex-Florida governors appearance on Sunday at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. At the talk, Mr. Bush did not announce a candidacy but said hell decide whether or not to try for the presidency by the end of this year.

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It turns out that not running has generated way more interest than running, he said, to laughter from the crowd assembled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his father George H.W. Bushs administration. Im not that smart, it just kind of happened that way.

Bush said his decision would depend upon two simple things: whether he could run a campaign with an optimistic message and not get sucked into the vortex of the mud fight and whether its OK for his family.

All the tactics of a campaign arent nearly as relevant because I dont think you can predict the context of a campaign this far out, said Bush, the son of one president and brother of another.

However, for all his studied indecision as to whether hell throw his heritage in the ring and try for a Bush three-peat, Bush did do something which could well reverberate throughout the GOP primary season. He repeated that hes a strong defender of the nationalized Common Core education standards, and that he supports immigration reform over the objections of the conservative wing of the party.

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Jeb Bush's defense of immigration reform is already changing the race, whether or not he opts to try a Bush three-peat in 2016. He's flushed a highly divisive issue out into the open.

Jeb Bush is going to run for president in 2016, unless he decides that he wont. Or is it the other way around hes out, but reserves the right to jump in? In any case thats the (hazy) bottom line from the ex-Florida governors appearance on Sunday at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. At the talk, Mr. Bush did not announce a candidacy but said hell decide whether or not to try for the presidency by the end of this year.

Washington Editor

Peter Grier is The Christian Science Monitor's Washington editor. In this capacity, he helps direct coverage for the paper on most news events in the nation's capital.

Subscribe Today to the Monitor

Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS of The Christian Science Monitor Weekly Digital Edition

It turns out that not running has generated way more interest than running, he said, to laughter from the crowd assembled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his father George H.W. Bushs administration. Im not that smart, it just kind of happened that way.

Bush said his decision would depend upon two simple things: whether he could run a campaign with an optimistic message and not get sucked into the vortex of the mud fight and whether its OK for his family.

All the tactics of a campaign arent nearly as relevant because I dont think you can predict the context of a campaign this far out, said Bush, the son of one president and brother of another.

However, for all his studied indecision as to whether hell throw his heritage in the ring and try for a Bush three-peat, Bush did do something which could well reverberate throughout the GOP primary season. He repeated that hes a strong defender of the nationalized Common Core education standards, and that he supports immigration reform over the objections of the conservative wing of the party.

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Immigration reform 'love': Did Jeb Bush comment change shape of 2016 race?

House Speaker John Boehner blames President Barack Obama for Congresss inability to pass an immigration reform bill, saying that its a lack of trust in the president that keeps members of the GOP from getting it done.

The American people want us to deal with immigration reform, Boehner said on Fox Newss Kelly File on Monday. Ive tried to get the House to move on this now for the last 15 or 16 months. But every time the president ignores the law, like the 38 times he has on Obamacare, our members look up and go, Wait a minute: You cant have immigration reform without strong border security and internal enforcement, how can we trust the president to actually obey the law and enforce the law that we would write?

The Senate passed a bipartisan, comprehensive package of immigration reforms last year, but the Republican-controlled House hasnt taken up that bill and has been slow to move any piecemeal reforms through the lower chamber.

Obama has been pressured by Democrats to use executive powers to slow deportations and make de facto reforms to immigration, something Boehner warned would derail any efforts entirely.

That will make it almost impossible to ever do immigration reform, because he will spoil the well to the point where no one will trust him by giving him a new law that he will implement the way the Congress intended, Boehner said.

Boehner also said recent comments by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush that immigration is an act of love and shouldnt be penalized as highly would not disqualify Bush in a presidential race, but that they were misguided.

Listen, to most people around the world, the United States is utopia, and, frankly, most people in the world want to come here, so I understand what Jeb was saying, Boehner said. But were also a nation of laws. And for those who are here without documents, theyre going to have to face the law at some point.

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President Barack Obama stepped back to give Republicans room to pass immigration reform and in swooped the impatience of youth.

Young immigrants, many not here legally, have ramped up their demand that Obama grab what he can now by using his executive authority to suspend deportations and worry later about winning over Republicans to sweeping reforms.

These young immigrants have been dogging Obama for years and got a taste of victory when, before the November 2012 elections, Obama suspended deportations temporarily for young immigrants. That didnt make them go away.

They are back for more and are joined by more established groups, including the National Council of La Raza, who are increasingly saying its time to shift strategies on immigration reform, after more than a decade of no results on comprehensive legislation.

He (Obama) decided to make enforcement a big issue. He thought he was going to be able to change Republicans' minds. It hasnt worked. Republicans hate him and we still dont have comprehensive immigration reform, said Erika Andiola, co-director of the DREAM Action Coalition.

This past weekend a coalition that included the young DREAMers marched to a park near the White House. Other rallies and marches took place in other cities in protest of an estimated 2 million deportations during Obama's presidency.

He (Obama) decided to make enforcement a big issue. He thought he was going to be able to change Republicans' minds. It hasnt worked. Republicans hate him and we still dont have comprehensive immigration reform."

Are these young immigrants the latest voices of conscience for Obama and the country, much like the black youth who sat at whites-only lunch counters or the anti-Vietnam War protestors on college campuses? Or are they impulsive idealists who fail to understand that politics is about give and take and timing?

There was some feeling that the young immigrants were ungrateful when the clash escalated last month. Thats when the president of NCLR called Obama deporter in chief and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus considered issuing a resolution demanding the president expand deportation deferrals he authorized for hundreds of thousands of young immigrants here illegally, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

Is DACA nothing? California Democratic Rep. Xavier Becerra said at the time. I would talk to the hundreds of thousands of families who today are not in fear, not having their young man or woman, son or daughter deported as a result of DACA. Thats not nothing.

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Sacramento State students among other protesters outside ICE on Saturday.

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