Where is the news article link for that?
I went to your link taking me to a freepers thread but could not find a link to the original Washington Post article.
Where is the news article link for that?
I went to your link taking me to a freepers thread but could not find a link to the original Washington Post article.
Cincinatus' Wife posted the original thread about Perry wanting a visa program for the illegals to cross back and forth across the borders, and you are right that WaPo seems to be having issues, so here's the original transcript from the interview Perry gave to CNN where he talked about a visa program:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1111/03/jkusa.01.html
PERRY: No. We've already had that conversation in this country. The idea that somehow we're going to round up 12 or however million people and ship them back to the country of origin is not reality.
KING: As you know, a lot of conservatives say that's the way do it, they don't want them to get any path to status, they say that's amnesty.
PERRY: And we're not talking about path to status here. We're talking about you're not going to pick up these folks.
But here what you do have to do, I think, is you have to identify them, you have to be able to give them some type of identification. Here's how they pay their taxes and they become a contributing part of the society instead of, as some people see them, just as a leech on society. That you can put a program into place of what these individuals can be identified and work visas and where they can move back and forth between countries, but not become United States citizens.
And I think that's where both McCain, that's where Romney, that's where even Bush went wrong when they talked about the issue of we're going to give amnesty to these individuals and people just said, no we're not.
KING: If you let them stay at all, though, and let them have those visas, some conservatives will say that's a form of amnesty. Because they came in illegally, they should not be able to get any benefits.
PERRY: Well, I disagree with the concept that somehow or other we're going to pack up 10 to 12 to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen. So we need to have -- reality has to be part of our conversation, and then you need to have a strategy to deal with it.