Like Sarah Palin, Chris Christie is for a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens. ?????
October 10, 2010
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/sarah-palin-americans-must-learn-from-reagans-mistakes-on-illegal-immigration/
"Palin was adamant that illegal immigrants should not be “rewarded the bad behavior” and continued along in this vein until O’Reilly stopped her, in a very similar manner to how he stopped Univisión anchor Jorge Ramos in a debate earlier this week, and asked for concrete reactions to the problem. Palin responded that she would like all illegal immigrants to register and that, in an ideal situation, “You deport them. You have to get them out of here.”
“We won’t complicate it any more. Let’s keep it simple and let’s say, ‘No, if you are here illegally and you don’t follow the steps that at some point through immigration reform we’re going to be able to provide, and that is to somehow allow you to work. If you’re not going to do that, you will be deported you will be gone.”
Ok, without cherry picking a PART of what she said and combining that with a Republican controlled House and a split (or controlled) Senate by 2012, where is the problem?
Currently there is no other pathway than the existing laws.
A amnesty bill must first go through the House and Senate. Not very likely now.
Until such pathway exists the way I read this is Sarah is saying rather plainly and with no embellishment "you will be deported."
She states her fist step is to "register" all the illegals, AS illegals.
That alone will put the fear in them, sending many back across the border, getting the attention of potential employers and will certainly send the communists into a foaming-at-mouth rage causing them to make mistakes. An "amnesty" such as what we were looking at with McCain is not in the cards.
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Sarah Palin denies she is for amnesty. Yet she is for a pathway to citizenship via 'registration'. No matter how you or Palin spin it a pathway to citizenship is amnesty.
Per Webster amnesty is the act of an authority by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals. Pardon is defined as the release from the legal penalties of an offense. Deportation is the penalty for the offense of being an illegal alien, ergo not deporting is amnesty.
Talk about cherry picking what Palin said! Here are exact quotes from the Univision interview:
As governor, how do you deal with them? Do you think they all should be deported?
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.
Do you then favor an amnesty for the 12 or 13 million undocumented immigrants? 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.
To clarify, so you support a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants?
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.
FYI, Three separate studies have shown the number of illegal aliens currently to be ~ 40 million, not 12 - 13 million.