Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Sarah Palin Is Pro Amnesty For Illegal Aliens - Univision Interview [Old news, 2008]
Diggers Realm ^ | October 24, 2008

Posted on 08/09/2009 6:56:23 PM PDT by RebelYell1990

Sarah Palin finally came out and made her stance on illegal immigration clear. She is pro amnesty for illegal aliens. In an interview to Univision she stated unequivocally that she is for a pathway to citizenship. In the same interview she says she is against amnesty for illegal aliens. Have your cake and eat it to, I think that is called.

Back on the same day that John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential candidate I started investigating Palin's past on illegal immigration. I invited others to send in anything they found. There was nothing on the record. Many did write in and said that Laura Ingraham said that one time she was talking to Palin and she said she was against amnesty. That was the only statement anywhere that could be found.

Now we know that she is against amnesty, all the while she is for it with a "pathway to citizenship".

You see this is what is wrong with these people. They think they can be on both sides of the issue at once and that simply isn't possible. You are either against amnesty or you are not. If you are for a pathway to citizenship for those who have illegally entered our country then you are pro-amnesty as you have virtually absolved them of all of their illegality.

People have bashed me for questioning "the Palin". They wrote in to say that obviously she is against illegal immigration. This was all wishful thinking and like so many other issues that the politicians have avoided, until they take a clear stance don't assume anything (and even then, if they're only saying it look at their record).

Sarah Palin is in lock-step with John McCain when it comes to amnesty for illegal aliens. Her answers are almost indistinguishable from McCain's, Obama's or even the most pro-illegal alien congressman in the house, Luis Gutierrez, for that matter.

Read it and weep.

Univision

Univision: Governor, let me ask you about immigration. How many undocumented immigrants are there in Alaska? Sarah Palin: I don't know, I don't know. That's a good question.

Univision: As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported? Sarah Palin: There is no way that in the US we would roundup every illegal immigrant - there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants - not only economically is that just an impossibility but that's not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration.

Univision: Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants? Sarah Palin: No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They've got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides.

Univision: To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants? Sarah Palin: I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here. It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.

...

Univision: What is your strategy? How are you planning to win the latino vote? Sarah Palin: I will tell you, I wish that there were more hours in the day so that we can get out there and to more of the communities with such the strong Latino vote that is out there and really tell them that we desire to work for them. We are asking them to hire us and let us work for them.

Sickening we can't find a real leader in this country who cares about Americans first.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: aliens; americans; amnesty; conservatism; dnc4romney; hispanicvote; illegals; immigrantlist; issues; mccainpalin; mclamesfault; msm4romney; newbie4romney; operationleper; palin; palin4amnesty; pimpromney; pimpromneyhere; projectleper; rino; rinoparty; rinoromney; rinos; romney; romney4obama; romneyantigop; romneyantipalin; romneybotcentral; romneycare; romneydirtytrick; romneylies; romneyorelse; romneythrewelection; sarahbiggov; sarahforsenate; sarahmcpalin; senatorsarah; socializedmedicine; squattersupportsquad; stenchofmccain; stenchofromney; univision
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 361-380381-400401-420 ... 601-614 next last
To: RebelYell1990
"Wireplay sounds a lot like one of those Atzlan or La Raza types that says European colonists were illegal immigrants. Is that really something we should hear from someone who claims to be a conservative"

Your exactly right...In other posts (258 and 319) he started asking about any traffic or tax laws anyone may have committed. His point was that no one has the moral right to demand illegal immigration be enforced because they have at one time broken some law. He must be one of those enlightened reeeeeeeeel conservatives Ive read about.

381 posted on 08/09/2009 10:49:15 PM PDT by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 301 | View Replies]

To: rabscuttle385; dragnet2
McCain’s team? Palin’s team? Give me a break. It was all the same ticket, and as many Freepers noted during the election cycle, McCain was on top and Palin had to do as her boss wished.

I'll give you a break.

The original use of the word "team" wasn't mine.

Your buddy draggy, used it. I mocked the use of the word by putting it in sneer quotes.

You get?

382 posted on 08/09/2009 10:49:50 PM PDT by FreeReign
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 376 | View Replies]

To: RebelYell1990

Tijuana.
I am probably he only person on this thread who is in San Diego and sitting 20 miles north of Tijuana.

I know first hand about illegals and was in a counter rally against 50,000 Mexicans a few years ago.

Just another reason I support Sarah Palin. I known where she stands on the issues.


383 posted on 08/09/2009 10:49:51 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 367 | View Replies]

To: Kimberly GG; traditional1
Fine them; deport them, and let them get in line as they are supposed to....THAT is the “path” she’s talking about, I think.”

And HOW, exactly, does that differ from any of the other Rhino statements on amnesty...including GWBush’s???


Are you for real?

Try reading that post again without your built-in bias against Sarah.

If they are deported and have to go through the normal process, what's your beef?

Should we give them the Death Sentence?!

Climb down off your high-horse Kimberly.
384 posted on 08/09/2009 10:49:58 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 99 | View Replies]

To: SoCalPol; RebelYell1990
I know first hand about illegals and was in a counter rally against 50,000 Mexicans a few years ago.

So do I.

The middle-class neighborhood where I used to live in suburban Prince William County, Virginia was taken over by illegals.

385 posted on 08/09/2009 10:51:39 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 383 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2
Well she ran on a ticket with an idiot that clearly supported open borders and mass amnesty. Hello?

Many of us voted for the ticket as a last resort against the big dumbass who is currently destroying our country, Obama. Perhaps that was her motive too, and hello to you.

386 posted on 08/09/2009 10:53:12 PM PDT by FreeReign
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 380 | View Replies]

To: GregoTX

This is why the Republican party was blown out of the water by a bunch of street level Communist amateurs from Chicago.


387 posted on 08/09/2009 10:53:53 PM PDT by dragnet2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 381 | View Replies]

To: GregoTX

Bundle it all together out of context and call it done?

On the compromise issue (in context), the other side has said to put people into internment camps. Do you support doing that or should we ‘compromise’ and find something else?

On the illegal immigration laws issue, yes, this country has had laws on immigration but the vast majority of its history has been one of open arms and welcoming people to settle the country. Including Texas, btw, which was settled by a load of people outside of the US. Can we also be polite and say that a lot of early Texans were GASP!!! illegal immigrants!?!?

I never compared the founders to illegals. I compared them to immigrants.

On the breaking law issue (in context), it had to do with moral absolutism.

Finally, I want to see you, and others, stand up and say you want to put millions of people in internment camps. Let’s rally around having all of these ‘criminals’ (women and children included) behind barbed-wire.


388 posted on 08/09/2009 10:54:19 PM PDT by wireplay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 368 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2; FreeReign
If McCain was the king of an Obama style health care reform...and Palin hooked up her wagon the that, would she still get your support?

The problem with you question, is that you have extrapolated an unclear position statement by Sarah into she's in total support of Amnesty.

Why don't you wait and see how she clarifies her position.

As soon as they start the process of trying to grant Amnesty again, she will speak out.

Then we will all be sure of her position.

I dare say you will be proven very wrong in your supposition.

I wonder if you will have the grace to admit you were wrong?
389 posted on 08/09/2009 10:54:33 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 360 | View Replies]

To: SUSSA

I’m not as comfortable as you with using figures from 1954 to project what will happen today. I agree that some will run away, but I think you may be underestimating the resistance to your proposal and recidivism rates.

The political ramifications by themselves mitigate against this type of action.

And you also assume that to get this done all that’s needed is a President willing to order it done.

You may be correct and the stars may align for you one day. The result, however, will simply be that in 50 years we do it all again.


390 posted on 08/09/2009 10:56:33 PM PDT by Leonard210 (Tagline? We don't need no stinkin' tagline.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 354 | View Replies]

To: Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears
I never heard Cheney speak in favor of amnesty.”

Neither did I.
But then I never heard him speak against amnesty either.
He just let his boss do the talking, and kept silent on the issue, and I don't recall anyone bothering him with questions on immigration either.
Sarah Palin on the other hand, had that issue brought right up in this interview with this Latino outfit. It was a major issue in the 2008 elections. She really couldn't buck McCain on this one, with 2 weeks to the elections. She merely repeated the policy of the McCain/Palin platform

391 posted on 08/09/2009 10:57:39 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 298 | View Replies]

To: FreeReign
Had my belly full of voting for the better of two evil pal. Never again will I tolerate that cock'nbull message.

At that rate, in 20 more years we'd be voting for the head the La Raza president over some terrorist from Jackassastan.

392 posted on 08/09/2009 10:58:09 PM PDT by dragnet2
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 386 | View Replies]

To: SoCalPol

Well, evidently, you don’t know where she is on the issues. You seem more keen on getting Palin in office, you are more interested in a personality then someone that stand for concise conservative principles.she is on record saying the deportation of illegals is unpractical and that she supports a pathway to citizenship for them. She supports citizenship for illegals, not deportation. this statement on a Spanish speaking, pro amnesty, anti american news outfit is backed up by the fact she did not crack down on sanctuary cities and that she allowed illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses while she was governor.
“However we can infer that at the very least in her two years as governor she has taken no action against Alaska being a sanctuary state, a Mexican consulate is being welcomed to the state, and so far as we know Alaska still offers driver’s licenses to illegal aliens.”
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200809201992/editorial/palins-alaska-is-a-sanctuary-state.html
http://www.theamericanresistance.com/issues/drivers_licenses.html


393 posted on 08/09/2009 10:58:17 PM PDT by RebelYell1990
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 383 | View Replies]

To: RebelYell1990

In your mind right is left, up is down, black is white.
You are the typical troll and disrupter.

Obama is pushing for amnesty but this is no problem for you.

It makes no difference who will be president in 2012, amnesty will have been established because liberals and third party loons let Obama lead the way.


394 posted on 08/09/2009 11:06:36 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 393 | View Replies]

To: wireplay
"Finally, I want to see you, and others, stand up and say you want to put millions of people in internment camps. Let’s rally around having all of these ‘criminals’ (women and children included) behind barbed-wire."

When did I say anything about internment camps? I am not in favor of holding people that didnt break a law... where do you get that from? I said to deport the illegal aliens. Where do get internment camps out of that?
You bring up tax laws, traffic laws, and DWI laws, and warn me not to demand that federal immigration law not be enforced because I may have broken some traffic law at some time. You compare British Colonialists to illegal aliens. You make wild statements like that and then accuse me of wanting internment camps? Women and children behind barbed wire? Get a grip.
Enforce the immigration laws... its a simple statement.

395 posted on 08/09/2009 11:07:28 PM PDT by GregoTX (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 388 | View Replies]

To: GregoTX

Valid point on internment camps: others said it. Let’s get to reality.

How do you propose to deport millions of people?

How about all of the Asian workers? Are we going to put them on a ship and send them back? What happends when their country refuses to take them? What then?

Again, back to an original example I made, what happens when the father and mother come from different countries?

There are a lot of issues here. My original point remains: it will be a compromise. You cannot treat people like they are simply criminals and toss them back. We should have enforced the laws a long time ago but now we have millions of productive people and we have to recognize that fact. Bullet answers are not going to work.

If you had your way, what would happen tomorrow?


396 posted on 08/09/2009 11:19:16 PM PDT by wireplay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 395 | View Replies]

To: SoCalPol

You said Obama pushing for “path to citizenship” was no problem for me, I never said Obama pushing “for a path to citizenship” was no problem for me, it is a problem for me. Palin pushing for a “path for citizenship” is a big problem for me because I don’t think pro amnesty candidates should hijack the conservative vote. For a candidate to be a conservative they must be against “a pathway to citizenship” for illegals. You are the one defending amnesty, not me. Palin has the same view as Obama on this.


397 posted on 08/09/2009 11:22:37 PM PDT by RebelYell1990
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 394 | View Replies]

To: RebelYell1990

Hey Reb, can you please point to me in the Constitution where the Feds have authority over immigration?

Palin is a Constitutionalist. She will be very limited in what she does in this regard.


398 posted on 08/09/2009 11:25:07 PM PDT by wireplay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 397 | View Replies]

To: RebelYell1990

Does DU pay you by the word or post for this sh**


399 posted on 08/09/2009 11:30:31 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 397 | View Replies]

To: wireplay

Section 4 Article 4
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

It is also against Federal Law. Are you saying United States cod is invalid? Under a Palin presidency will United States Code be abolished? That will be a popular platform. The anarchist vote is probably about .01%.


400 posted on 08/09/2009 11:32:11 PM PDT by RebelYell1990
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 398 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 361-380381-400401-420 ... 601-614 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson