That would be a false headline. Perry for example fully supported Arizona passing it’s law — he even had his state file a court brief DEFENDING the Arizona law in federal court.
He didn’t want to pass the Arizona law in Texas. That’s an entirely different issue; he clearly “backed” the Arizona law.
I also don’t know that Gingrich or other candidates didn’t back the Arizona law. I’d be shocked if Bachmann didn’t back it.
There point, which is a valid point, is that Cain and Palin both have said that they wouldn’t deport all the current illegals once they had secured the border. That puts them in line with Gingrich (and Perry) on that specific part of the illegal immigrant issue.
The question is, what do we DO with those who we don’t deport. I can’t tell if Gingrich’s plan puts them on a path to citizenship. Palin’s plan didn’t, but was too generalized to tell if she thought they should pay fines. Cain’s comment is just a few lines so we don’t know.
I would like to see a fine involved as part of getting the illegals signed up for a temporary green card. Once they are signed up, we know if they have jobs, and if they don’t, we can boot them out. And then after a year we can evaluate their jobs to see if americans can do them, if so we can kick them out, if not we renew them. If they lose their job we kick them out. If they stop reporting we kick them out.
I would guess that was what Palin’s plan was heading to, since her point was to get them INTO the system and out into the open. I would guess Cain would have agreed with that (this is the Perry plan that he announced and was trashed for).