The author of this article is a hard-core Lefty.
Time, Mother Jones, Salon, etc.
The first question to ask should be, “Is this even true?”, before declaring Barbour as a boogyman.
“Is this even true?”
I know NumbersUSA.com gives Barbour a D- report card on immigration. So even if he didn’t lobby on behalf fo the Meh-he-canos for amnesty, Barbour’s immigration record is pathetic.
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/2012-presidential-hopefuls-immigration-stances.html
“The author of this article is a hard-core Lefty.
Time, Mother Jones, Salon, etc.
The first question to ask should be, “Is this even true?”, before declaring Barbour as a boogyman.”
It’s true. And it’s too bad some of the right side media doesn’t have the cajones to bring it up! There are plenty of sources for this and some of us have tried for years to get it out.
[snip]Back in September he said in an interview with the Hoover Institution that Latino immigrants to the Gulf Coast post-Katrina were instrumental to recovery work. He began by saying that his first priority regarding immigration reform would be to “secure” the country’s borders. Then he said something quite striking, not just for a Republican but for a member of either party these days:
A lot of it is just common sense. And common sense tell us we’re not going to take 10 or 12 or 14 million people and put them in jail or deport them. We’re not going to do it, and we need to quit—some people need to quit acting like we are and let’s talk about real solutions.
Now comes a blast from the governor’s past (via Swampland) revealing that Barbour was on Mexico’s payroll back in 2001. He was paid $35,000 a month to help extend a “mini-amnesty” provision that would allow some 300,000 undocumented immigrants in the U.S. to get visas or green cards without what’s called “touchback,” which requires that people return to their country of origin for anywhere from three to 10 years before they can get their papers.