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Mitt Romney Finally Responds to President Obama’s Unilateral Immigration Policy

Mitt Romney Responds to President Obamas New Immigration Policy for Young Illegal Immigrants

Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Photo: AP)

Though Mitt Romney initially punted when asked about his stance on President Obama’s major shift in U.S. immigration policy, the GOP Presidential candidate said Thursday that he would replace Obama’s “temporary fix” with a permanent solution while speaking at a Hispanic leadership conference.

(Related: Romney Won‘t Say He’ll Overturn Immigration Order)

“Some people have asked if I will let stand the President’s executive order,” said Romney. “The answer is that i will put in place my own long term solution that will replace and supersede the president’s temporary measure. As President, I will not settle for stop-gap measures.”

He went on to say that he will “prioritize efforts that strengthen legal immigration and make it transparent and easier.”

“We may not always agree, but when I make a promise to you, I will keep it,” Romney added.

Watch Romney’s comments at the Hispanic leadership conference NALEO on Thursday:

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Obama’s new directive, which was not approved by Congress and is being called an “executive order” by some, will prevent hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens from being deported if they meet a specified set of guidelines laid out by the Department of Homeland Security.

Romney argued Obama did “just enough to get him through the election” in regards to immigration reform. He lamented, “I think you deserve better.”

“Despite his promises, President Obama has failed to address immigration reform. For two years, this president had huge majorities in the house and senate… but he did nothing to advance a permanent fix for our broken immigration system. Nothing,” Romney said. “Instead, he failed to act until facing a touch reelection, and trying to secure your vote.”

Among Romney’s other presidential ambitions are to “re-double efforts to secure the border,” field more Border Patrol agents, and completing a high-tech border fence.

He also said the U.S. benefits when immigrant families are kept together and not separated, but he argues, “today too many families are caught in a broken system.” To address this, Romney said he would issue more green cards to those who “seek to keep their families under one roof” and eliminate unnecessary red tape for certain immigrants.

(H/T: Mediaite)

Comments (112)

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  • slr4528
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:17pm

    As far as I am concerned Ronald Reagan created this immigration mess by not securing the border before granting amnesty. Big business proponents like Santorum and Gingrich didn’t push securing borders and voted against everify when in congress to please big business. Bush was worthless when it came to securing the border…as a matter of fact, I think Bush was pushing for open borders.

    So here we are needing to win 40% of Hispanic vote in order to win the presidency. How do we propose doing that and at the same time clean up the mess left by Reagan,Bush and other Republicans?.

    Romney’s first initiative before anything else is securing the border then working with Congress to streamline the immigration system to promote legal immigration not illegal immigration and not amnesty.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:21pm

      …in other words…. AMNESTY.

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    • slr4528
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:37pm

      Brother Winston-No not amnesty. I am a proponent of getting in line behind everyone else and apply for citizenship. My grandparents were immigrants and they received no special perks and they had to follow the process… it is not fair to grant amnesty to people who break the law.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Oooops. No, slr4528, ROMNEY IS AMNESTY!!!!!!!!! If these CRIMINALS are allowed to CONTINUE LIVING HERE… THAT’S AMNESTY!

      DEPORTATION NOW!!!!!! NOW!!!! AHORITA!!!!!!

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    • beckyspatflaveredstew
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:52pm

      You are right, the Gipper was a compromiser when it came to the border. Education was another. I miss You President Reagan, Your constitutional infractions PALE IN COMPARISON, RIP.

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  • Brother Winston Smith
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:13pm

    Romney = Dream Amnesty.
    Obama = Dream Amnesty.
    Paul = NO Dream Amnesty.

    So… who are YOU voting for?

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:31pm

      @BROTHER WINSTON SMITH

      Romney

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    • Gourdy
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:35pm

      If immigration were the defining issue of this election, you’d have a great point. But it’s not. Illegal immigrants aren’t stealing our jobs. They are doing the shite work that keep our economy going.

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:54pm

      Romney

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:57pm

      @Gourdy

      FALSO:
      “If immigration were the defining issue of this election, you’d have a great point. But it’s not. Illegal immigrants aren’t stealing our jobs. They are doing the shite work that keep our economy going.”
      VERDAD:
      Immigration has been one of THE HOTTEST GRIEVANCES of the American people for a decade. The Minutemen movement helped pave the way for the Tea Party. But the leftist republican/democrat party REJECTS LAW, same as the illegal alien criminals, and has TREASONOUSLY aided their invasion. It is a less grotesque PRIMA NOCTE – the CORRUPT government dilutes liberty (American population) by FORCE-injecting an ocean of third world socialism (illegal alien population).

      Consequently, THOUSANDS have been murdered, raped, child-molested, home-invaded, and hammered-driving hit-n-run over by these criminals. ON TOP of having their jobs stolen – IN DOUBLE-DIGIT UNEMPLOYMENT!!!!!!!

      And Romney… speaking at an ETHNOCENTRIC, TRIBALIST, RACIST gang-rally… promises to IGNORE LAW… as long as it gets him into office… ironically the SAME THING OBAMA PROMISED!

      DIOS MIO, I don’t know HOW these men avoid jail. Or trick ANYONE into… VOLUNTARILY VOTING FOR THEIR OWN DOOM!!!!!

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:04pm

      FreedomPurveyor and brother_ed are voting for illegal alien criminal amnesty.

      Well… that… and:
      Leftist judges
      Supports redistributed wealth for student loans
      Supports NDAA
      Bain wrecking ball, manufacturing jobs overseas
      Bankrolled by the SAME TOP bailed-out CONTRIBUTORS AS OBAMA
      Touchback Amnesty.
      Hired illegal alien criminals (and DAMN WELL knew it).
      Mandated Purchase of Romneycare (HALF-funded by feds – unconstitutional)
      Romneycare-funded illegal alien criminal healthcare
      Undeclared Nation-building
      Supports the 4th-rejecting “Patriot” Act
      Global warming (when politically useful)
      Supports abortion (when politically useful)
      Instituted sodomite/lesbian “marriage” (and tried to blame courts)
      Supported TARP
      Supported the Brady Bill and Assault Weapons ban
      Notorious Flip-flopper
      Supports Private Federal Reserve
      Supports Assassinating citizens without Due Process

      Wow… might as well vote for Obama!

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    • Pheonix1901
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:36pm

      Romney

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:48pm

      Romney — the one who didn’t write racist news letters, deny it, then later admit he did and that he (according to somebody who worked on them) did approved, some.

      Romney — the one who doesn’t call the U.S. “occupiers”.

      Romney — the one who hasn’t said ON VIDEO, that he can’t deny 9/11 was a conspiracy.

      Romney — the one who is going to get the most votes.

      If Ron Paul tries really, really hard, he might be able to be a manager at K-Mart. OR he can contribute to Al Jezera.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:26pm

      EXCELLENT, tharpdevenport!

      FAKE-conservatives have become notorious for jumping the shark over and over and over. Of course your “points” are nothing more than mischaracterizations and lies.

      BUT… say they WERE laser-accurate…
      THOSE… are “deal-breakers”… while Romney’s TARP, croni-capitalism, gun-grabbing, sodomite marriage, abortion, etc, etc… and now AMNESTY… are NOT “deal-breakers?”

      I noticed in your Alinskyite parting shot, you mentioned Al Jezera. Given Romney’s pro-amnesty for illegal alien criminals… are you equally concerned with Telemundo?

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    • GodWillPrevail
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:40pm

      Do not like Paul but mush of this trash is just that. Very old newsletters.

      People complain about them then promote Mitt who wanted nothing do do with the Republican Party in 2002 then for four years achieved the liberal dream come true for Democrats in Mass. Cap and Trade, Gay Marriage and Adoption (forcing Jews and Catholics out of Adoption), Abortion free or cheap on demand. Very strict gun laws. No forget all that. Now Mitt is a Republican.

      No Mitt is a Liberal Moderate DEMOCRAT. He does not believe any Republican principals. Check his record only Obama is further left even among Democrats. Mitts actions are 100% liberal Democrat.

      Now Paul is nuts of Foreign Policy and Illegal drugs.

      But I will not vote for Romney or any other Democrat.

      We need to boot Romney out and make the Republican Party stand for something. For now as far as President it is just the second Democratic Party.

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    • Brother Winston Smith
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:59pm

      @GodWillPrevail

      LIE:
      Now Paul is nuts of Foreign Policy and Illegal drugs.
      TRUTH:
      The federal government has NO AUTHORITY to render “drugs” illegal. Paul seeks to restore the 10th. Paul’s NONINTERVENTIONIST foreign policy STRENGTHENS our defenses, saves money and saves lives. You want “nuts?” Here you go….

      A decade.
      8,000+ DEAD.
      10,000s injured.
      110,000+ ACTIVE DUTY TROOPS on mind-bending meds.
      Amputations.
      SHOCKING levels of suicides. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n2OQRYgGII
      Homicides.
      Trillions (that we DON’T HAVE) wasted.
      NOBODY “TRAINED” enough to fight for themselves.
      NOBODY “liberated” (for more than a moment).
      Unconstitutional police/surveillance state. TSA, DHS, NDAA, patrolling drones, “Patriot” act (1770s Writs of Assistance that helped start an American Revolution).
      A completely SURRENDERED INVASION into our OWN FRONT YARDS that is killing, raping, child-molesting, home-invading and hammered-driving-hit-n-running over THOUSANDS!!!!!!!

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:56pm

    Romney could just duck all criticism and heat by saying the congress should set the laws of this country. But I suppose that would be too constitutional of a position

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  • FreedomPurveyor
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:19pm

    How about if you directly employ illegals, you have to pay for their 1-way ticket to Mexico City and drop them off at the airport. Two birds, one stone.

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    • Gourdy
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:08pm

      Good idea, but how about taking it further in the personal responsibility realm. If any of us can certify that the salad we eat tonight, the steak we enjoy, or the motel room we stayed in wasn’t brought to us by illegal labor, then the system is working. Can you say that? I can’t.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:13pm

      its much easier than that. If you see an illegal and don’t report it to the authorities, you are guilty of breaking the same law….Sounds great huh

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    • Gourdy
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:24pm

      Soy, what exactly does an “illegal” look like? I’d love to know.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:35pm

      me too. Just playing along man – its called sarcasm

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:54pm

      Or, how about we just pay it ourselves and write it OFF the debt we owe Mexico, which is approximately $34 billion (if the online source is accurate). In a few years we will be debt free to Mexico. And for every dollar after that, they owe US.

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  • Guitar Master
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:16pm

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    From THE REPORTER
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    Have you listened to his speech ? Have you heard him say he would “stamp a green card to the diploma of anyone who gets and advanced degree?”

    Folks, we’re in serious trouble. It looks like we have another “dictator” who want to do things “his way” instead of following our Constitution. Listen to him use the word ” I,” count the times will you?

    If you believe in the laws under the Constitution, there is no way you can agree with what he just said his policies would be.

    IT IS TIME TO LOOK FOR A NEW CANDIDATE !!

    We do not need another empty suit who follows orders from the powers that be !

    We have no idea who this man is (same as Mr. Obama before he was elected). We do know that Romney is an elitist, we do know that he just said that he would do things “his” way and not follow the Constitution.

    It‘s time to look elsewhere for a another candidate before it’s too late.

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  • BIgWheeler
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:58pm

    The best way to stop illegal immigrants is to start going after the people that hire and house them. Hire an illegal; go to jail. Rent an appartment to an illegal; go to jail.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:33pm

      A business should only be concerned about hiring the best person for the job. If someone walks the streets and arrives at your business doorstep – you must figure the government has allowed them to do so. We should not expect our businesses to be policemen – they have a hard enough time finding good workers

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:17pm

      You got it wheel.

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  • Gourdy
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:46pm

    It’s a hot-button issue that everyone loves to pontificate on, but I don’t believe businesses and corporations want to change the immigration status quo at all. It’s a supply of cheap, expendable labor.

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    • marhee9
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:53pm

      The more important issue here is the complete disregard for how our Republic is supposed to work. The very man who chided George Bush for doing what he called an “end around of congress,” has now taken it to a whole new level. I do agree that it is a hot button issue.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WWrGHn5QQ

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  • cloudsofwar
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:37pm

    i don’t care, i’ll vote for Romney and hold his feet to the fire. BO must go for the sake of the country. i believe Romney’s policies will be better for jobs and retirees. this country will never close the border never has never will. if mexico wasn‘t such a crap hole there wouldn’t be a problem. if this country wants to change governments around the world we should start in Mexico.

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    • GoodStuff
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:56pm

      Please Romney, don’t select Rubio. We don’t need any more open-border amnesty-supporting RINOs. We had 8 years of Bush.

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    • tharpdevenport
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:26pm

      I’ll vote for him, too. I’ll vote for ANY inanimate object over the Obamanator. But he’s going to ignore us, so there’s no use with holding his feet to the fire. He’s ignoring us now, he’ll ignore us up to the election, and he’ll ignore us once in. He needs to be pushed by having no control over both Houses in Congress. then and only then can we get him to work FOR US like he’s supposed to.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:48pm

      @CLOUDSOFWAR
      Timeout.

      I have been wondering this for awhile….Tell me exactly HOW you are going to “hold Romney’s feet to the fire”. How do you expect this to happen? I agree it should happen, but i dont see how

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  • tharpdevenport
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:35pm

    I got a better idea, Romney, IGNORE IT, SEAL THE DAMN BORDER, MAN IT AND MOVE ON.

    I don‘t want the MUSH President he’s aiming for, the working with the Democrat party which has almost been taken over by Commie’s and anti-American values people (you don’t striKE ANY deal with people like them). If he wants go go down as the wishy-washy, Mealy-mouth-in-cheif President who’s job was to try and save as much of the country as he could after the aftermath of the Obamanator, but instead went for amnesty (during ANY year of the first term), MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

    I fear for amnesty under Romney (we have PLENTY of guest working programs for illegals), and a worhtless progressive Republican Vice President.

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  • TRILO
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:31pm

    I guess he had to do a few quick polls to see which way the wind was blowing before me made a comment. He is no better than Obama. Rubio, the media and sheeple’s darling is for the Dream Act and giving amnesty. Why would Romney be any different? “The poor kids”. That is what every progressive uses to get their agenda through. Who wants to be against “the kids”.

    What really ticks me off is the fact that the TOTUS could not get the legislation passed so he just by-passed Congress. Then the useless Congress just lets him. Rather than be upset that he went around them and that the vast majority of American citizens do not want the Dream Act ,the RINO’s biggest complaint is that the actions of the TOTUS were to boost his re-election chances. Both parties want the Latino vote so they will do what they can to get it, even if the other 3/4 of Americans do not want it.

    I do not understand why any Latino who came here legally would agree to allowing other immigrants, latino or not, to come here illegally and take from the public funds that they pay into.

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  • JTThrasher
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:22pm

    The immigration system is not broken. Get in line like everyone else and if the line is long it means we are taking in too many. Romney is full of crap just like Ol’ Bama.

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  • Gourdy
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:57pm

    Every politician takes Latinos for granted, but Mitt isn’t clarifying anything here. He’s clearly backed into a corner on this issue. Who does he tick off more, conservatives of Latinos? It’s a lose/lose situation for him.

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  • aragona
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:56pm

    I’m not 100% opposed to amnesty FOR A FEW, AFTER the borders have been closed, and AFTER they have returned to their home countries and LEGALLY APPLIED for visas like the rest of LEGAL immigrants have done.

    WHEN this happens, let’s talk about amnesty.

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    • Gourdy
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:06pm

      That’s a good idea, but how are we going to close nearly 2000 miles of border? Fences can be breached unless you have guard towers every 100 feet. There aren’t the resources or the will for that.

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    • JTThrasher
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:20pm

      Gourdy-Actuallyy we have plenty of resources, but for some reason we place more value in guarding the border in Korea and several other nations. Bring them home, secure the U.S.

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:24pm

      @GOURDY

      Sounds like a good job for drones.

      Close the border.

      You are welcome here, just use the front door.

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    • aragona
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 9:27pm

      We put a man on the moon. We can built a fence or secure a border. Even China managed to get it done aeons ago when they built the Great Wall of China. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. The problem is there is no will because the government doesn’t want to do anything about illegal immigration. (Sort of like our tax code. They could change it, easily.) They could, but they don’t want to.

      There is too much money being made on this “21st Century slave trade.” Those that speak out against it are RACISTS. The “kind hearted” individuals who are for illegals in this country have no problem with the fact that these people are second class citizens who work in sub-minimum wage jobs, in poor working conditions, in poor living conditions with no legal protections. No, they aren’t mean-spirited racists, apprarently the rest of us are.

      I would close the border and level the playing field but who am I? Just a libertarian-leaning Republican (i.e. one of the good guys – we know who we are). That’s why the Democrats (kna socials/communists/marxists) work so hard to portray us as the enemy. They simply accuse of being what they, themselves, ar.

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  • WakingSheep
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:55pm

    Forget the Constitution. Doesn’t he just look “Presidential”?

    Anybody but Obama……. Yeah…… anybody but Obama……….

    That liberty tree sure is looking dried up who’s gonna light the match?……

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:08pm

      @WakingSheep
      Yeah, none of us care about that constitution, liberty, and freedom stuff. The only living creature in the Milky Way who cares about stuff like that is Ron Paul. I did hear there was a being in a nearby galaxy who cares about it but he has five arms, two heads and a nine foot tongue so you can’t understand a damn thing he says.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:29pm

      Yeah…. The bots are the only smart ones. We get it,
      Why does the only begotten son of Paul back Romney?

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:35pm

      Rand Paul is not the same as Ron Paul – i know its hard for you people who like to vote based on hereditary lines (Bush, Clinton, Romney) but a son is allowed to differ from his father

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    • Individualism
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:38pm

      anybody but Obama is Gary Johnson because Romney is Obama, Obama copied Romney in Massachusetts.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:59pm

      @Individualism
      Gary Johnson is the perfect alternative to Mitt Romney….Gary Johnson has twice as much experience as governor, won a re-election (Romney did not stand for re-election), was governor of a liberal state WITHOUT COMPROMISING, vetoed every spending increase, and did not institute Johnsoncare as governor. He is liked by people in NM from both parties to this very day

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  • Chromo200
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:52pm

    Wa wa wa .. If you marry a non US Citizen that was living in the US and does not have a green card you have to leave the country for a year and then maybe allowed to come back.. SO what does this do for a family, If you are single parent and you get sent to jail, doesn’t this break up the family since the kids are going to school, and are not in trouble.

    The immigration issue the way Obama and I bet Mitt see it will encourage more to come across the border. In the old days people came to this country leaving their wives and children behind and when they got a job and were doing fine and got the green card they brought their family over. There was no whining/crying that this breaks up families and these children were brought to this country at no fault of their own. Now they all come across and push for the amnesty.

    I realize that sending back all these illegals is not possible, but they will leave on their own if there is no work for them.. That is have the companies do the selection and if they break the law then confiscate the companies assets just like we do to the drug dealers. Put the assets up for sale. This will reduce companies hiring illegal cheap labor. To do this people like Holder and the liberal courts have to accept the principle.

    I addiiton set up a work permit system. This permit does not include wives, children, and extended family. Plus make a finite number of work permits.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:00pm

      And why should we do that, when even illegal immigrants are by and large better people and better citizens than say, the majority of Glenn Beck’s audience? I’ll take them over you any day of the week.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:19pm

      @The Third Archon
      ” I’ll take them over you any day of the week.”

      Of course you would. You leftists don’t care for America or Americans. It‘s no surprise that you’d prefer people from somewhere else.

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    • Chromo200
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:59pm

      The Third Archon “l take them over you any day of the week.” .. Please do, and we will see how you feel when you loose your job to an illegal, or you have to wait in an emergency room for hours because it is too crowded, or your children can’t read or write because they have to wait till children of illegals have to complete English as a Second Language, or you are in accident and they have no insurance.

      By the way did you get off on the comments and response you got. Did it make you feel better.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:34pm

      @CHROMO200
      It made me laugh at how terrified you people all are of a bunch of immigrants entering the lowest socioeconomic tier of the State–people who take jobs you legally CAN’T take, because you as an American citizen (I’m going to ASSUME you are not a hypocrite here illegally) are REQUIRED to not work for less than minimum wage. Does that answer your question?

      None of those things will happen for two reasons–one, they aren’t happening in the pandemic you seem to think they are (as if people here living in fear of deportation who have NO IDEA what the law might do to them are lining up to receive government benefits, lol); and two, as I possess something called “an education” and “intelligence” (as well as a number of other advantages, not least of which is NOT being an immigrant) I compete EVEN LESS with illegal (or legal) immigrants than most, because I am in a DIFFERENT socioeconomic tier which few, if any, of them (certainly not illegal immigrants) make it to.

      Besides all that, your zero-sum view of socioeconomics is a self-fulfilling prophecy–immigrants NEED NOT be a hindrance if the socioeconomy is structured to BENEFIT ALL from their contributions. Society and economy serve whatever purpose the polity designs them to serve–the few in the status quo, but that doesn’t mean it MUST be so into perpetuity.

      @QPWILLIE
      It’s not ALL Americans that are shameful–just the ones like yourselves.

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    • LSTMANSTNDNG
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:39pm

      @3rd Arch

      Then by all means, head on over to there side of the fence

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:45pm

      “their side of the fence”

      Also there is no fence.

      Also, I like it here, and I like MOST of the people here–there’s just SOME that are morons. But that’s going to be the case ANYWHERE you go. I’d much prefer to stay here and make America the kind of country it ought to be–I owe at least as much to the sane and struggling Americans, the country of my birth and my kin.

      Besides, I just LOVE watching conservatives squirm over anything vaguely Leftist far too much to leave, ha ha ha ha.

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    • Chromo200
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 11:37pm

      @ The Third Archon .. So you have an education and at a different socioeconomic level. What about the rest who don’t have what you have. I have an education and I am not afraid of the immigrants. I just want people to abide by the law.

      Is this happening at a pandemic level .. Humm not the way you say it, but in the agriculture area yes, in the landscaping area yes, the service and food area yes.

      The issue you miss in all of this … most of us are immigrants and most came here for a better life, but we followed the rules. Most of us are not against immigration just that we want people to follow the rules and not ask for handouts because you believe you deserve it.

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  • florida123
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:47pm

    Remember the last president to give Amnesty to Illegals in America………..The Icon of The GOP Ronald Reagan………..the results of his bill, the same problem with 20 million more illegals! He too did nothing to stop them from coming over the border…………There must be hard hit you in the pocket measures to all who hire illegals before amnesty will fly…………We must stop all welfare to illegals along with no more anchor babies, many thing to do before we can talk about amnesty………..

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  • Stopit
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:32pm

    Try not to fall off and bust your neck while you straddle the fence, Mittens.

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  • neillwd
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:20pm

    So he’s talking amnesty again…

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:33pm

      Of course he did. The progressive Republicans want the same things Democrats do. Too bad the media and the American Sheeple threw Ron Paul; the ONLY non progressive candidate Under the Bus.

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    • Individualism
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:37pm

      well yeah hes a Mexican and he feels sorry for his own people.

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  • PJL
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:20pm

    Good man Mitt!

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:30pm

      Yea It’s so good when Republicans create amnesty for illegals, but not when Democrats do it. The VAST MAJORITY of you people are HYPOCRITES.

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:56pm

      Yeah! Good job with that HUGE “R” next to your name! Good job!

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    • brother_ed
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:32pm

      @TRUTHBELIEVER2

      I‘m pretty sure Romney’s plan would use Congress.

      Anybody who says “Send them all back!!!” is being unrealistic.

      Close the border. Then figure out how to get these millions (and millions) of human beings into the system. Charge a fine, deny voting rights, whatever…but send them all back? Ludicrous!

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  • Individualism
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:18pm

    all you need to do is require identification to receive services to stop illegal immigration in its tracks. i guess not everyone from Harvard has common sense.

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  • Kankokage
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:11pm

    This is a smart move, in my holy opinion. The very raw base of Obama‘s executive thingamijg isn’t wrong – the condescending timing and way in which he did it (i.e. Catch, Release, Vote) is completely self serving and insulting to all illegal aliens regardless of status or age. Obama treats you, the illegal alien, as a stepping stool.

    Giving good people who love America a chance to be Americans is good; if you love America, I want you here, but we have to do this the right way that doesn’t equate a proverbial bird-in-the-face to those who try to legally emigrate. Like Romney implied: let’s fix the whole broken immigration system, not just what is politically expedient.

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    • Izzy2626
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:23pm

      most of them dont love America are you serious?

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    • TomFerrari
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:33pm

      Well said!

      I would add that we must SECURE the border as part and parcel to any meaningful immigration reform.
      What good is actual reform, if the border is wide open for others to ignore the law, the process, the procedure?
      But, even more importantly, securing the border is “The Right Thing To Do”
      You see, the drug cartels are farmers. Farmers with a highly lucrative product. One with high demand in America. An ILLEGAL product, that they must smuggle in.
      Now, here in the land of the free, we learned long ago, farmers require roads to get their goods to market. So, states like Texas, built lots of “Farm to Market” roads (FM).
      Without those roads, the farms cannot continue to exist.
      Cut off the supply route, you kill the farm!
      The cartels don’t do this because it is “fun” nor because they “hate” America.
      They do it for MONEY !
      Remove the profit, and they will initially attempt to continue, but, it will be too difficult.
      After infighting for the tiny remains of their industry, they will retire to some huge mansion in South America somewhere.

      So, SECURE THE STINKING BORDER ALREADY !
      Oh, and don’t say, “It’s too big”
      Israel can do it.
      We can put robots on Mars.
      We CAN secure our border.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:36pm

      Typical biased Romney response.

      Its amnesty he is talking about. No one likes it when Obama and his people were talking Dream act, now you Mormons and blind GOP sheep are willing to follow Romney off the cliff.

      Wake up!!

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:05pm

    i watched the whole video link. Lots of politician talk. Only three things stuck out to me….

    1. He wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens in the military….(how in the hell does an illigal get INTO the military???)
    2. He wants to give green cards to everybody who completes an “advanced degree”….. are these people more priveledged than people without advanced degrees?)
    3. He would put in place a federal employment ID system. This is the same system so many conservative states have been fighting AGAINST for constitutional reasons…..(why is it the employer’s job to enforce immigration policy?)

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  • P8riot
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:05pm

    Romney/________ 2012!

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:14pm

      not excited about the top of the ticket?

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:27pm

      Another Progressive giving free tickets to America through Amnesty. Big Surprise.

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    • Mutiny
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:38pm

      Can we just skip Romney and try again and elect _________? I hear _________ is a much better option.

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    • P8riot
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:56pm

      okay, okay :)

      Well, if you guys want, we could discuss Ron Paul’s VP list… oh wait… :)

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:08pm

      Yeah,
      Forget principal or the Constitution.

      What’s really funny is not but two days ago you claimed I hated America.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:36pm

      P8RIOT Kucinich…… who else would a NeoLib Paulbot want
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4DRZP9JgBA

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:37pm

      I didnt know Ron Paul had a VP list – who is on it?

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    • P8riot
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:33pm

      @WAKINGSHEEP – I didn’t say you “hated” America, but I did ask you why you would love a country you claim is the cause of pointless wars which killed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Or why you would love a country you claim is responsible for 9/11. I said you only love the America YOU want it to be.

      I think America is the greatest country in the history of this planet. I think this world is a BETTER place because of America. I think America is the cause of what little stability we have on this planet, NOT the cause of the instability. I think much of this world would be ruled by dictators if it wasn’t for America and our shining example of what freedom offers.

      Anyhow, as you can tell, I have issues with people who blame America for 9/11 as well as most of the wars and suffering in this world.

      When you retracted your previous statements about all the bad you think America has caused, then I will retract my assertions as well.

      GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!

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  • bumfuzeled
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:05pm

    If that damn Irish Spring pop up floats across my reading one more time, I am going to each of the three grocery stores I pass on my way home and empty all of the Irish Spring onto the floor. Hope someone will bail me out.

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    • Kankokage
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:12pm

      The makers of those screen-stealing ads that appear whenever the shadow of your mouse touches them need to be dragged through a pine forest and tossed into a pool of lemon juice.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:25pm

      Soooooooooooooooo frustrating!!!

      I got your back.;0)

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:28pm

      I’m just wondering if they think that will really get anybody to buy their product.

      “Hey, I know how we can sell more of this liquid soap! Let’s annoy the s–t out of people and they’re sure to run out and buy some.”

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    • term limits for congress
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:34pm

      I sometimes get Lexus in addition to the Irish Spring. Guess I’ve evolved.

      Agreed – I hate it. I’ll go $5 on the bail.

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:25pm

      I will……….

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:32pm

      Well, since the subject of commercials was brought up, I’d have to say this is one of my favorites.

      (Warning-Language!)

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=SGxKhUuZ0Rc

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  • encinom
    Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:53pm

    Okay, so Mitts answer is he will do something, he just isn’t saying what. Like his tax returns and plan for theeconomy, you have to trust him cause he is not giving details.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:01pm

      Smart man. keeps the looneys and their media hacks crapping their
      little panties.

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    • P8riot
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:03pm

      No details? Romney’s outlined a 59 point plan to fix the economy. I‘m sure he’d get more detailed than that if he could, but most people can’t think past 9-9-9.

      As for immigration, he’s always had the same detailed plan – rather than cut and paste – you can read it here.

      http://www.mittromney.com/issues/immigration

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:06pm

      Thats what happens when a politician knows he will get votes because of his party affiliation. Same thing happens with Obama

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    • ELAN114
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:07pm

      Among Romney’s other presidential ambitions are to
      *“re-double efforts to secure the border,” – Haven’t heard Obama talk about this
      *field more Border Patrol agents – or this
      *completing a high-tech border fence -or this

      *issue more green cards
      *eliminate unnecessary red tape for certain immigrants.

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    • The Third Archon
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:08pm

      Funny, because when Obama does the exact same thing, the Right jumps all over him for being “not transparent enough” but when Romney does it they call it a “smart move.”

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    • bumfuzeled
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:08pm

      Kind of like your guy with three years of no budget and no clue as to how to fix this economy. He wants to tax something just not sure yet which tax will win him the most votes. Big Barrack “pander to a new group daily” Obama still can’t find his way after 3 1/2 years. Pitiful.

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    • LIBSALWAYSLIE
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:15pm

      ENCINOM, still supporting the socialist obumer I see. Some people are just stuck on stupid, and you are living proof

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:30pm

      Stuck on stupid or the crack pipe. Didn’t you learn anything from Whitney? Crack is Whack!

      Encinom found naked and eating arm in local Walmart. The full story at 11.

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    • encinom
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:07pm

      P8riot
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 5:03pm
      No details? Romney’s outlined a 59 point plan to fix the economy.
      _______________
      YOu mean the plan that will raise taxes on the middle class, cut services for the needy and give even bigger tax cuts to the rich and corporations.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:34pm

      Whether anyone on here likes it or not, kids have been born here and are Americans, period. I agree, close the borders and sit down with with the representatives of those who are not here legally, and work out a sensible plan, that keeps families together, removes all criminals, (no matter what) and find a way that is reasonable to remove those who aren’t doing well and need to back, as society can no longer afford them. Find a way for some through the military, and screen out the gang members carefully. There are ways that this can be reasonably done, better smarts than I have, but some are going to stay. Until they are citizens the rules need to change about whsat they can get from us. As for that idiot who wants colledges to give them special privilages-fire ‘em. There is no slash and burn that is going to work out well for anyone, so it’s time to figure it out without anger. But I say again, close the borders FIRST.

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    • encinom
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 7:05pm

      @Jenny Lind

      The issue is not children who were born here, they are US citizens, regardless of the status of their parents. The issue is infants and children born in a foreign country, raised and schooled in the US. For the most part thye are Americans, this is the culture they know.

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    • LSTMANSTNDNG
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:43pm

      @ENCINOM

      Just out of curiosiy, do you actually read the stories before posting, or do you just scan over the headline and get your lefty panties in a bunch and spew the first thing that comes to your “Idy Bitty” little progressive brain.

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