CNN
By Tom LoBianco
August 12, 2015
Ohio
Gov. John Kasich said Wednesday he would complete a border fence and
crack down on illegal immigration if elected president, but he refused
to slam the door on a
possible pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already in
the U.S.
"I
would prefer for them to be legalized once we find out who they are
because they can -- I think they contribute a lot to America," Kasich
told CNN's Dana Bash on "The
Lead." "They're hard workers, they're God-fearing, they're
family-oriented. If they committed a crime, they've got to be deported
or put in prison, but the only reason I say that is we have to solve
this."
He
likened granting immediate citizenship to cutting the line at a Taylor
Swift concert: "I don't favor citizenship because, as I teach my kids,
you don't jump the line
to get into a Taylor Swift concert."
But Kasich declined to entirely dismiss the possibility.
"Let
me be clear, I don't favor it and I'm not sure we would ever have to do
that. Let's make citizenship, getting in here legally. That's my view
on it. But I'm just
not going to pound the table on all these things and say my way or the
highway. I will on some things, but I've got to be careful about that."
He explained his reasoning, saying he thinks about what it would be like to actually be president.
"I
actually think about what it would be like to be president," Kasich
said. "So if you ever notice when people run for president, they make
lots of promises and they
never keep them. ... And you know why? Because they make promises they
can't keep because they don't know any better."
Kasich also explained that he no longer supports ending birthright citizenship -- something he backed while he was in Congress.
"When
I think about it, I don't believe it should be a fundamental part of
this whole thing because I think it remains dividing to people, to be
honest with you," Kasich
said when asked about the change.
"I
think we need to get over that. I'm not for it anymore. Let these
people who are born here be citizens and that's the end of it. I don't
want to dwell on it," he said.
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