I know how to search, but that doesn’t give a transcript of an interview, genius. I even listened to all of the interviews on the issue on RM’s lovely chart. Which is a good effort for his candidate, very helpful.
I don’t have time to waste on it, I’ve spent enough time on it. I figure if a reporter presses him for an answer for something beyond the border fence [is that the ONLY answer he has?] and he comes up with something as lame as he did by your standards, then I don’t have time to deal with his indecisiveness.
I don’t disagree with what he says about the fence, but he needs to give more of an answer than he has, maybe put it on his website [there’s an original idea] and quit tapdancing around.
OK Genius. I spent 5 minutes looking on google:
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with asking folks who come in illegally, to go home. We deport thousands of people every month. I don’t see any other way to re-establish the currency of American law than to keep the law.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/3805.html
I asked Duncan Hunter, the GOP congressman from California whose immigration policy is built around the idea of a really big fence, what he’d do with the illegal immigrants here. His answer: Shoo ‘em out.
“You realize we deport thousands of people every month,” he told me. “We tell folks, ‘You have to go home. Make your country a good country. Put pressure on your government if you don’t like things. Get after those congressmen in Mexico and those congressmen in other countries.’ “
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/08/AR2007060802489_pf.html
I was at the Duncan Hunter event in Troy last night. I’m still undecided, but this is a guy I can back if he gets some traction. His main issue is trade. He’s the first presidential candidate since Pat Buchanan to run on trade as his main issue. Unlike Buchanan, Hunter has held elective office. Some of his platform and stances...
2. Immigration reform. Build the fence and stop illegal immigration. Deport those who are illegally here and make them come in the right way. He also stated he would pardon Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean Convicted for shooting an illegal immigrant/drug dealer.
http://republicanmichigander.blogspot.com/2007/03/duncan-hunter-visits-michigan.html
Rep. Duncan Hunter of California- Where he stands:
• Favors deporting the millions of illegal aliens. A sponsor of legislation authorizing construction of border fence.
What he’s said:
• “When you discover an effective deterrent to crime, you use it. I know fencing helps secure our nation’s borders because criminal activity in every statistical category has been eliminated or decreased since we built the border fence in San Diego County.” — Campaign website
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-04-24-immigration-republicans_N.htm
He also said the same during one of the debates, on interviews on Fox and CNN and elsewhere. It has been common knowledge about Hunter that he wants to deport the illegals since oh, about 1986.