Former President George W. Bush hails push for comprehensive immigration reform

WASHINGTON – Former President George W. Bush today cheered on the "progress" in pushing comprehensive immigration reform through Congress.

"The legislative process can be ugly," Bush said with a chuckle in an interview aired today on ABC's "This Week." "But it looks like they're making some progress."

"It's very important to fix a broken system, to treat people with respect, and have confidence in our capacity to assimilate people," said the former president. "It's a very difficult bill to pass because there's a lot of moving parts."

Bush's 2007 immigration reform bill, which included a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, was killed by his own Senate Republicans who denounced it as "amnesty."

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President George W. Bush delivers remarks at the dedication of his Presidential Library in Dallas on April 25, 2013.

The same "amnesty" charge has been leveled at the current bill that overwhelmingly passed the Senate but now faces an uncertain fate in the GOP-run House.

"I understand sometimes you can't get legislation through that you want. I was also frustrated we didn't pass social security reform," he said. " I thought the plan I'd laid out on both was reasonable. But sometimes it takes time for some of these complex issues to evolve. And it looks like immigration [reform] has a chance to pass."

Bush dismissed arguments that the Republican Party must back the immigration overhaul in order to win over Latino voters.

"The reason to pass immigration reform is not to bolster a a Republican Party. It's to fix a system that's broken. Good policy yields good politics as far as I'm concerned," he said.

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