Posted on 01/18/2024 5:11:23 AM PST by cotton1706
ARepublican running for Congress in North Carolina previously compared deporting illegal immigrants to Nazi Germany, and said he was "not opposed" to fast-tracking citizenship for recipients of Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as "Dreamers."
Pat Harrigan, a candidate running to represent North Carolina's 10th Congressional District, made the comments in an Oct. 2022 interview with WFAE 90.7, a public radio station that services the Charlotte area, while a congressional candidate in a different district ahead of the midterm elections.
"There has to be a pathway to citizenship. Look, from my perspective, you look at countries that have rounded up and exported people from their country. It's a list of countries that we don't want to be involved with. It's Russia. It's North Korea. It's China. It is Nazi Germany," he said when asked about a "pathway to citizenship" for individuals in the U.S. illegally.
"This horse has left the stables on this topic. And the vast, vast majority of immigrants that have come to this country are here because they're trying to build a better life for themselves and for their families," he said.
The interviewer then asked Harrigan about "Dreamers," those brought to the U.S. as children of illegal immigrants, and whether there should be a process for them to gain citizenship more quickly.
"I think we need to look at exactly how we do that, but I'm not opposed to it. I do think it’s incredibly important that we have to gain control of the southern border and gain control of our immigration system first, prior to allowing any type of assimilation program on a widespread basis. Critically important that we do that one-two step," he responded.
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This guy just torpedoed his own campaign.
I think Nikki has her running mate.
The pathway is heading south to their own countries which they are already citizens of.
He stole it.
He literally entered illegally, and stole it, along with all Welfare given.
You don’t reward that. You punish that.
Give them legal status but NOT citizenship.
And the Republicans all over the country continue their death dives.
I do think it’s incredibly important that we have to gain control of the southern border and gain control of our immigration system first, prior to allowing any type of assimilation program on a widespread basis.
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So you’re saying that after all the previous Republican administrations we have never really had control of the border? And we’re to believe that an amnesty-peddler like yourself is gonna take that seriously? BWAHAHAHAHA!
The countries on his list didn’t “round up people and export (sic) them”. They rounded them up and killed them. Crucial difference.
“Taxpayers have invested $120K in his education”
Entirely against our will and to the detriment of our own children.
Repeal Plyler v. Doe and let the citizenry decide where their money goes.
GOP candidate compared deporting illegal immigrants to Nazis.
Didn’t know the Nazis deported people hey they didn’t he has the democrat history book.
Oh, tut-tut.
Everyone KNOWS the Nazis didn’t deport anyone.
They humanely “relocated” these people, many of them German citizens. Sent them off to places they didn’t have to interact with Germans who disliked them.
They were well cared for in those places.
It was a really humane thing of the Nazis to do.
/s
Dreamers = Dreamercrats
Well, I imagine the Nazis would have deported illegal immigrants, yes.
They also plowed the snow and ran municipal water systems. Are we not supposed to do those things, either?
So?
Another communist plant...
The GOP is full of them...
A technique that was developed by Felix Dzerzhinsky to save the communist revolution when it was on the precipice of failure...
Everyone KNOWS the Nazis didn’t deport anyone.
Indeed it all depends on what history book you read the democrats are printing their own too.
yellow media approved
Is this Bozo being primaried?
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