Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who gained international notoriety last summer for his plan to burn a Quran and announced recently he was running for president, said he wasn't as "intelligent" as Herman Cain and discussed a plan to "deport all illegals" if his presidential bid succeeds, in an interview with The Daily Caller.
"I am not anywhere as intelligent as a Herman Cain," Jones said. He added that the Republican presidential candidates "are not letting the American people know the condition that we are in."
Later in the interview, Jones discussed a plan to "deport all illegals." When pressed on the impracticality of wide-scale deportations across the country, he said he would start with deporting undocumented immigrants in Los Angeles. Asked by the Daily Caller whether his policy would involve checking the immigration status of all Los Angeles residents, Jones said that he'd opt for racial profiling. "I don't know. I think I would first, because of limited man power, I think I would first go to the Hispanic community because that is where most of the illegals are coming from," Jones said.
He said that he would not host public Quran burnings in the White House.
Jones oversaw a Quran burning on March 20, 2011 in his Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla. That burning provoked widespread protests in Afghanistan, some of which turned deadly. He planned to burn a Quran on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but cancelled the burning after an international outcry.
He also claimed that he had a deal with a local imam to move a planned Islamic community center farther away from the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan. Imam Faisal Rauf, the leader behind the community center, said there was no such deal.
Jones announced he was running for president in October. His campaign is called "Stand Up America Now."
