Rick Perry on the US Mexico Border with Greta Part 1
Rick Perry on the US Mexico Border with Greta Part 2
Cain's immigration policies are almost identical to Perrys.
In a final op-ed, Herman Cain noted his opposition to the 2007 Comprehensive Immigration reform plan and noted four things that congress could do concerning immigration. These items were to secure the borders convincingly, expand the temporary worker program for skilled legal immigrants, establish a reliable legal immigrant identification program and then propose a reasonable program for the 12 million (and counting) illegal persons who broke our laws to get here, but not amnesty.
In additional interviews, Mr Cain stated that comprehensive immigration reform was a "do nothing" policy which would not solve the problem of illegal immigration. He stated that a Cain administration would do three things: secure the border; enforce the laws; promote the existing path to citizenship.
I’ve read about many of Perry’s actions and inactions on illegal aliens and no amount of spin makes him look like anything more than another Texas governor who’d be as weak on immigration as his predecessor in Austin.
Border state politicians cannot be trusted on immigration issues: both Bushes, McCain, Kyl, Hutchinson, Perry and others. Do we even need to discuss California polticians?
And with a strong Republican majority in the House and one expected in the Senate, the most critical question is:
Would a new Republican president truly implement strong new immigration legislation a new Congress is likely to pass?
We saw what border state W did with the Secure Fence Act of 2006. We need a non-border state president who’ll implement good laws passed by Congress rather than use every ruse in the book to avoid implementing as W did.
Congress will likely take the lead on immigration after January 2013. We need a president who’ll work with Congress on this issue, or follow its lead.