Mitt Romney on Immigration. Dishonest. To the Extreme:
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During last night's debate, Mitt Romney’s extreme anti-immigrant views were on clear display – so much so that Mitt Romney has now assumed the mantle as the most extreme, right wing presidential candidate on the issue of immigration ever. Romney’s round them up and throw them out anti-immigrant views use to the be the fare of far right wing gadfly candidates like Tom Tancredo, but no more. Romney once again went to the far right of every other Republican presidential candidate, refusing to agree with others on the stage that tearing apart families is wrong or that we shouldn't implement an extreme and inhumane immigration policy. This kind of attitude is harmful to our country, our nation’s families, and our standing in the world. It certainly runs counter to what we stand for and doesn’t reflect our values as Americans.
What makes matters even worse is - as is as typical of Mitt Romney - he refuses to level with the American people and won't say what he would actually do with the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country today. His spokesman was asked seven times in an interview last night what he would do and he refused to address the issue given repeated opportunities – and instead he attacked the questioner LINK.
This is just another dishonest attempt by Mitt Romney to play politics on an issue to further his political ambitions rather than leveling with the American people about the real challenges we face in addressing this issue. Romney's immigration stance coupled with a string of dishonest and deceitful statements and campaign tactics just goes to show Mitt Romney will say or do anything - no matter how extreme or outrageous - to get elected. After all, he's running for office, for Pete's sake.
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Script: Mitt Romney on Immigration. Dishonest. To the Extreme.
Text on screen: On immigration, who is being honest about the challenges we face?
ROMNEY:
“…we have had in the past programs that said people who come here illegally will get to stay illegally for the rest of their life, that will only encourage more people to come here illegally.”
“…to say that we're going to say to the people that came here illegally that now you're all going to get to stay or some large number are going to get to stay and become permanent residents of the united states, that will only encourage more people to do the same thing.”
GINGRICH:
I do not believe that the people of the united states are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families and expel them.
The party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families who have been here a quarter century. I'm prepared to take the heat for saying, let's be humane in enforcing the law without giving them citizenship but by finding a way to create legality so that they are not separated from their families.
Text on Screen:
If Mitt Romney can’t level with Americans… …how can he lead America?