Read the transcript. The article posted is biased.
CAIN: ... because it is a package. Secure the border for real, promote the path to citizenship that’s already there. And the path to citizenship that’s already there doesn’t say anything about amnesty.
Thirdly, enforce the laws that are already there. But make it easier for companies to be able to enforce the laws.
And fourth, empower the states. Don’t give the states any, you know, special things to do. Just empower them to do, within the law, what the federal government is not doing. That’s my approach to the whole issue.
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Leaving aside for now what he means by "empower" (lovely word!) -- Mr. Cain is running for president. He would like to be the leader of the federal government. Therefore whatever the federal government is not doing now, we may presume he would have it doing that.
Would you say that's a logical assumption?