Jeb Bush: I don’t support Arizona’s immigration law

While he is sympathetic to the plight of Arizona officials forced to deal with all the problems linked to a porous frontier, he believes there are solutions other than a law criminalizing illegal immigrants, he said.

“It’s the wrong approach,” he said. “The net result is not much has been done.”

He said if the U.S. deported 12 million illegal immigrants from across the country, it would cost billions and not be very effective.

Instead he recommended tightening the border and improving programs to more smoothly integrate immigrants into American society.