Kasich: Hard Working Illegals Are Just Like All of Us

TODD: “The Senate comprehensive compromise on immigration reform. What did you make of it? Would you have supported it?

KASICH: “I don't know what the details are. What I support is a guest worker program expanded so people can come in and then go home. Seal the border. There are some interest groups that don't want the border to be sealed.”

TODD: “What does ‘seal the border’ mean, though?”

KASICH: “It means –“

TODD: “And how do you do it? I mean –“

KASICH: “Well, I mean, you do it with fencing and you do it with technology, drones and sensors. And, you know, Duncan Hunter over there in San Diego has significantly reduced the number of people coming across the border because of his initiatives on fencing. So do as best you can there. I've been told by grownups, real experts, that, you know, most of this can be done, and can be done effectively. Guest worker program, the 12 million that are here, if they violated the law, they go out or they go to jail. But if they're hardworking, God-fearing, family people, they go to church, they work with us, let them stay. They're going to have a pay a fine –“

TODD: “It's interesting you said violating the law though. There are some people that say just being here, they violated the law.”

KASICH: “Yeah, well, that's –“

TODD: “And that should be held against them.”

KASICH: “Well, they're going to have to pay a fine and pay a penalty for the fact that they violated the law. But, you know, if they're part of our culture now and society, and they're doing fine, they're hardworking, they're just like all of us, then I think they can stay. … I have learned over the course of my lifetime you need some degree of bipartisan cooperation. And just think back to Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill. I mean, they were working together when it was to serve America. And that's what I think we need, a good dose of that.”