If you dont understand how badly the legal immigration system needs fixing, you don’t understand the immigration system as a whole. We forbid the wrong people, admit the wrong people, have wrong legal procedures, too many visa categories, too many family/chain migration, have the ‘anchor baby’ problem, etc. Our borken legal immigration system, created by a Kennedy bill in 1964, is the source of our illegal immigration problem.
Amnesties and lax borders only exacerbate the problem.
To throw out a simplistic statement about needing less immigration (Why?) without even noticing that it would require changes to our legal immigration system is oxymoronic.
Romney is 100% right.
I understand that it needs fixing. But Romney’s statement should have clearly focused on ILLEGALS. THAT’S the issue right now.