Posted on 11/21/2014 8:03:44 PM PST by bimboeruption
BOCA RATON, Fla. — A little more than four years ago, John Kasich told The Dispatch, “One thing that I don’t want to reward is illegal immigration.”
He called for a comprehensive federal immigration law protecting America’s borders. And he reiterated his longtime support for amending the U.S. Constitution to end birthright citizenship for children born here to illegal immigrants.
But now, as his fellow Republican governors loudly voice many of the same sentiments, Kasich is urging them to ratchet down the rhetoric and try to work with President Barack Obama to solve one of the nation’s longstanding vexing problems.
Hours before Obama outlined executive action that could grant a reprieve from deportation for millions now in the country illegally, Kasich conceded that his own stance on immigration has “ evolved” because he is “maybe a little smarter now.”
“The country needs healing,” he said. “I wouldn’t ever be one to tell you that I don’t change my mind or that my thinking doesn’t evolve. … I’m also a different guy than I was years ago. This job grows you up.”
He was the only governor during the Republican Governors Association’s conference this week to express openly a willingness to create a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
“I don’t want to see anybody in pain,” Kasich said. “So I guess when I look at this now, I look at it differently than I did in ’10. Because I’ve become convinced that sometimes, you just got to say this is what we’re gonna do and if you don’t like it, there’s nothing I can help you.”
In contrast to what he said a month before he won the governor’s office in 2010, Kasich sounded a note of compassion for those struggling to make a new life in America. He noted that his wife had a friend who was forced to return to Nicaragua, and there was nothing he could do about it.
“So when I look at a group of people who might be hiding, who may be afraid, who may be scared, who have children, I don’t want to be in a position of where I make it worse for them,” he said.
In response to questions, Kasich said he didn’t know whether Ohio will have to act on such issues as driver’s licenses, Medicaid services or in-state college tuition in response to Obama’s action tonight.
The governor also said he hasn’t thought about whether Ohio would join a lawsuit threatened by Wisconsin Gov. Walker and outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
“You have to have dialogue in this country with people who may not think exactly the way you think,” Kasich said.
He did criticize Obama for acting unilaterally rather than reaching out to Republicans, who increased their majority in the U.S. House and took control of the Senate in this month’s election.
“When you do this, you really create such antipathy,” Kasich said. “We really can’t move forward as a country. … When we become so divided, it gets harder.”
When he used to fill in for O’Reilly, he mentioned his wife was “pro-choice.” I knew he was a phony then.
Kasich has his own show on Fox News Channel on the weekends years ago....
Kascih is a backstabbin pimp. Hes part of the RINO socialist lite crowd. As a congressman he voted for Clintons semi auto ban back in the 90s.
Some of us never forget. He will never receive my vote for any public office.
I, like many Ohioans did vote in the midterm. Pretty much a straight R ticket except for the local good guy Auditor Dusty Rhodes (D) who is far more conservative than Kasich who I left blank. I was hoping a report would be done to see how many Repub ballots left the idiot Kasich box empty.
Ohio Governor Kasich has lost his marbles as well as more importantly his prespective. So his wife made friends with an illegal alien who was deported what about the 150 million foreigners who want to immigrant to the US but have been constrained to wait in line like everyone else?
What about our ability to maintain a melting pot which is now crumbling because of a refusal to asumulate by many who also refuse to even obey our immigration laws.
Theses illegal aliens actions make them invaders not immigrants. Immigrants respect the laws and customs of their new country starting with the process to get in. Invaders just move in and do their own thing while avoiding the law.
There isent a real honest immigrant out there who isent insulted by what these invaders have done cutting in line in frount of them to enjoy the furits of the American life without any waiting.
What about their rights?
“The country needs healing,”
Yes, by illegals all returning to their countries of origin, not by taking a finite number of jobs here and corrupting the culture. I use to like Kasich, but it seems political ambition corrupts weak minded people.
Another Freeper posted a very simply plan:
1. Self-deport by July 1, 2015.
2. Those that don’t are deported immediately and never allowed to return to America or receive citizenship.
I would add:
3. Build a wall and stop all illegals from entering.
4. Heavily fine employers who hire illegals.
5. Deport all illegals. IMMEDIATELY.
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