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KRIS CONNOR/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Eliseo Medina speaks during the America Deserves a Vote on Immigration Reform Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC on April 9, 2014. The rally is asking for immigration reform to pass through the House of Representatives.

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KRIS CONNOR/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Eliseo Medina speaks during the America Deserves a Vote on Immigration Reform Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC on April 9, 2014. The rally is asking for immigration reform to pass through the House of Representatives.

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KRIS CONNOR/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Eliseo Medina speaks during the America Deserves a Vote on Immigration Reform Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC on April 9, 2014. The rally is asking for immigration reform to pass through the House of Representatives.

Photo by Kris Connor

KRIS CONNOR/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Eliseo Medina speaks during the America Deserves a Vote on Immigration Reform Rally on the National Mall in Washington DC on April 9, 2014. The rally is asking for immigration reform to pass through the House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON Arriving at the National Mall after a 30-state bus tour, Eliseo Medina on Wednesday got a crowd of immigration reform supporters roaring si, se puede and yes, we can in Spanish, English, Korean and Vietnamese.

The retired labor advocate is the acknowledged national leader of an effort to persuade Congress to pass a comprehensive bill with a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the country illegally.

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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.

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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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