“This is from a quick google. I don’t know why people think she’s soft on immigration.”
Hold on. I didn’t say it was true, Ijust said that if she did think that, she was wrong. However, you can also pretty easily find the following interview with Univisión anchor Jorge Ramos;
Interview on Television;
RAMOS: Governor, let me ask you about immigration. How many undocumented immigrants are there in Alaska?
PALIN: I don’t know, I don’t know. That’s a good question.
RAMOS: As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
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.”
I report, you decide, OK?
I don't think anyone expects Gestapo charging into houses and dragging people out to be deported (except the Dems and poor little Elian). The fairest way is to make certain that illegals cannot draw any benefit from any level of government. Next, illegals cannot work for pay in America. Next, any illegal who comes into contact with a governmental agency will be deported. This will cause most of them to pack up and move on.
This is the constitutional solution. It therefore is Sarah's solution.
Palin has two years to hold her finger to the wind and adopt the right position on immigration.
Next year dozens of states will pass Arizona-style immigration laws. Gutierrez is threatening mass protests if he doesn’t get the DREAM Amnesty. Look at what happened after Arizona. Now imagine half the Union “pulling an Arizona” in 2011.
It is highly unlikely that Palin will be spitting in the wind by 2012. By the time 2012 rolls around, Americans will be so hopping mad with the Obama administration over immigration that it would be political suicide to endorse the amnesty position.
All the soft immigration stuff is from 2008 during the Presidential run when she was saddled with McCain’s positions. I looked at the article. October 2008. Do you really think that she was expressing her unvarnished view in 2008 or do you think she had to toe the line set by the McCain campaign on it?
"Report"? That's a laugh. That was as sneaky as anything I've seen in the liberal MSM.
You conveniently left the date of that Univision interview off your "report". Had you included that, anyone reading it would realize that Palin made those remarks during the 2008 campaign. You know - that period of time during which she was compelled to support the stated policies of the presidential candidate?
She has since made her own positions on the issue clear to the public, as noted in post #125.
If you insist on differing with her on a policy, please find one that is current, and which clearly departs from conservative orthodoxy.