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
This from your Washington Post article.
“Candidates have been campaigning up a storm, yet the national polls have hardly budged. No second-tier hopeful has made a dramatic move. Most normal, non-politics-obsessed people still aren’t paying attention. There aren’t five people in America who can identify Mike Gravel on sight, and no one knows Duncan Hunter from Duncan Hines. And who’s Ron Paul? Why doesn’t he have a last name? Does he know George Ringo?”
That’s a good line...no one knows Duncan Hunter from Duncan Hines. Very truthful of you to point that out for me.
I think sometimes his supporters do not realize just how much their work is cut out for them. He is so obscure. How important is a member of the House of Representatives from California to anyone from the midwest? He doesn’t even get noticed in my state.
Fred outpolls him even in California.
I did read your links. He favors deporting as a general principle but does not say specifically that he would deport all of them, or how. [I have to work for a living, had to wait until after work to read them.]
Shoo them out? What does that mean?
We’ve got so many issues in this country that are important, he chooses this as his important issue and can’t spell out in specifics how to do it.