WOLF BLITZER (MODERATOR): Governor Kasich. The idea -- you've said this and I want to quote you now. “The idea that we're going to deport all these people is ludicrous and everybody knows it.” Those are your words. Should people be allowed to break the law just because it's not feasible to stop them?
GOV. JOHN KASICH (R-OH): Look, we have a great president here, George Bush, 41st president of the United States. He worked with Ronald Reagan, to pass an effort to try to solve this problem. A path to legalization. You see, that was a time when things worked. It was a time when President Reagan and George Bush decided that we needed to make the country work. Look, I think there is an answer here. The answer is, you complete the border. You let people know that once it's done, you don't have a right to come in. If you come in, we don't want any excuse, you're going to go back. But I favor a guest worker program. I think it's practical. And I think for the 11 or 11 and a half million Americans, the illegals that are here, if they have not committed a crime since they've been here, I'd make them pay a fine, some back taxes, maybe some community service, and at the end, I'd give them a path to legalization, but not a path to citizenship. I don't think we're going to tear families apart. I don't think we're going to ride around in people's neighborhoods and grab people out of their homes. First of all, I don't think it's practical and I don't think it reflects America. You know what happened? The problem with President Reagan is we didn't get in there and actually finish the border. And I think it was probably business interests that affected it. But at the end of the day, let's be practical. Let's start solving problems in this country instead of kicking them upstairs with, and with President Reagan and George Bush, it was a bipartisan coalition to address the issue, and I think we can and should do it again and I will have a plan in the first hundred days to get it done and get this issue behind us.
