Bill Clinton praises Jorge Arbusto on immigration.

Clinton Praises Bush on Immigration Reform
By Robert Jablon Associated Press July 8, 2006
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Former President Bill Clinton praised PresidentBush on Saturday for supporting reforms that would allow millions of illegal immigrants to seek citizenship but said the debate in Congress is being fomented by Republicans who want to divide America.
’’I’m proud of him for doing it and I thanked him for doing it,’’ he said of Bush during a ‘’Cafe con Clinton’’ breakfast speech to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s largest Hispanic civil rights advocacy group.
Clinton said Bush’s roots in Texas _ which has one of the nation’s largest Hispanic populations _ have helped him view immigrants as people rather than statistics.
’’It’s hard to demonize people if you know them,’’ he said.