PALIN ON IMMIGRATION IN HER OWN WORDS - 2010
PALIN (to Greta): People mock the idea of a fence. What's wrong with building a fence? Yes, let's physically secure the border. Let's ramp up border control. Let's provide the tools for those who are putting their lives on the line in order to stop illegal immigration of these aliens. Those are a couple of things.
And then you don't start talking about amnesty, either, kind of as this last-minute, Oh, anybody who's here in the country right now, we're going to provide you amnesty, and even though you've broken the law and we are a nation of laws, you've broken that, we'll still give you -- because then there's going to be a huge influx of those wanting kind of at the last minute to come over the border because they know that they will forever then receive that amnesty.
So you don't start talking about that, but the very first thing you do is physically, literally secure those borders. It baffles me and most Americans why for all these years presidents, administrations have spoken about it but never done it.
O'REILLY: All right, but I'm talking Texas, California, New Mexico, all of them. So you'd send maybe 10,000, 15,000 National Guard down there to assist the Border Patrol, yes?
PALIN: Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.
O'REILLY: All right, so you'd militarize the border. You'd finish the fence, finish building the fence from Brownsville to San Diego, yes?
PALIN: Yes.
O'REILLY: Ok, the people watching this program have it. We have it. We assume that you, as president, would secure the border. I have confidence that you would do that. But now you have to look inward, all right? And you've got 12 million people staring at you. What are you going to have them do?
PALIN: You're not going to give them a free pass. You're not going to say, OK, you and anybody else who wants to scurry across this porous border between now and when we finally do finally get it fenced in and physically secure, we're going to give you a free pass.
O'REILLY: All right.
PALIN: And just because you've broken law in the past…
O'REILLY: So no amnesty.
PALIN: …we can trust you. No, no amnesty.
O'REILLY: But what do you do with these folks?
PALIN: Which means…
O'REILLY: Do you make them register with the federal government? Do you tell them they have 60 days to get out of here before we put you in jail? What do you do with them?
PALIN: Do we make them register with the federal government? Yes, we do. We're not going to give them a free pass.
O'REILLY: So you make them register with the federal government.
PALIN: We're not going to reward the bad behavior.
O'REILLY: And if they don't register with the -- say you gave them 60 days to register with the federal government. There's a form at the post office they have to send in like a Census form. All right, say they didn't do it.
PALIN: You deport them.
Good to see you, dearest Jeff! I pray you’re doing better!
Thank you very much for posting more recent dialogue from Sarah Palin, herself!
"Allow you to work"?????? Sorry, this is amnesty. They will be deported only if they don't "follow the steps." It seems to contradict what she said on Greta's show. In fact it also contradicts what she said in the rest of the O'Reilly interview.
Lest you think I am pushing Perry, he has some problems too, and he needs to explain them.
Jeff, I didn’t know you were back (because I am very unobservant), good to see you.
I think that interview is somewhat ambiguous, partly because O’Reilly is a bloviating idiot who doesn’t know how to actually get answers from candidates.
But reading that interview, I would say it is likely that Palin does support allowing at least some illegal immigrants to stay in the country if they register with the government, and she “expects them to work” which means she is likely for giving them green cards so they can legally work.
I also think she is saying they shouldn’t get special treatment toward citizenship, but should have to go to the back of the line and wait their turn. But maybe they get to wait IN country.
So I don’t see that as specifically denouncing her previous comment that you wouldn’t throw out all 13 million illegals.
I could be wrong; but this is the interpretation is out there, and I would imagine Sarah could easily clarify if she felt necessary, using twitter and facebook, or in an interview. She is an excellent speaker and can express her views clearly on the subject, when she wants.
Unlike some here, I don’t believe an absolute position on illegal immigration works, so I guess I find it easier to accept this opinion of what Palin said, because I would support her 100% on that viewpoint. I wouldn’t mind if she was harder on illegals than I would be either, but I would be happy if her view matches my current opinion on her view.
Her more recent support of Jan Brewer and Arizona's illegal immigration law buries the Univision and Schmidt meme.