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To: RC one

“Romney would just ask them to “self deport”, pretty much the same thing that Obama will do come to think of it.”

A blatant act of self deception on your part. How does it feel to lie to yourself and others?


57 posted on 07/08/2014 4:51:46 AM PDT by flaglady47
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To: flaglady47
Nobody knows what would a Romney presidency would have looked like because that reality did not come to pass. But his position on illegal immigration, in his own words, was to have illegal immigrants self deport:

The answer is self-deportation, which is people decide they can do better by going home because they can’t find work here because they don't have legal documentation to allow them to work here,” Romney said. “We’re not going to round them up.”

In my opinion, that's basically the same thing that Obama is doing when he sends an illegal a letter telling them to appear at a deportation hearing and then calls that deportation even though people are just not showing up for the hearings and are staying here. Due to widespread recognition of his lack of actual enforcement, he is giving the illegals the option to self deport...or not. How is that really any different than what Romney proposed?

furthermore, the only legislation that Romney ever passed in Massachusetts in regards to immigration was passed weeks before he was booted out of office with complete understanding that it would be overturned by Duval Patrick before he even changed the drapes in the governor's mansion-which he did. It was just a political move that he thought prudent at the time so he could pretend to have some kind of conservative credibility in a Presidential election...It was BS, just like his lifetime NRA membership.

And now he's singing a different tune. Now he thinks illegal immigrants should be given a path to citizenship instead of encouragement to "self deport". In his own words:

"I do believe those who come here illegally ought to have an opportunity to get in line with everybody else.”

It's the same old Romney, standing for everything and for nothing because, in reality, he stands for nothing and nobody except chamber of commerce oriented self interests and we know where the chamber of commerce stands on this issue but in case you missed it:

Chamber of Commerce: 'We Will Not Let Up' on Amnesty Bill

So I don't know that I deceived anyone here.

64 posted on 07/08/2014 5:19:16 AM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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