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Romney won't say he'll overturn immigration order
AP ^ | Sunday June 17, 2012

Posted on 06/17/2012 7:52:00 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

BRUNSWICK, Ohio (AP) — Mitt Romney is refusing to say that he would overturn President Barack Obama's new policy allowing some young illegal immigrants to stay in the United States.

The Republican presidential candidate tells CBS” ”Face the Nation” that if he’s president, Obama’s executive order “would be overtaken by events … by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution.”

Romney was asked three times in the interview if he would overturn Obama’s order, but he didn’t directly answer the question. Instead, he said would work to pass a law to help those young people who were “brought in by their parents through no fault of their own.” Romney said he doesn’t know why Obama “feels stop-gap measures are the right way to go.”

The candidate’s comments represent a further softening of his rhetoric on immigration since the GOP primary campaign ended.

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1 posted on 06/17/2012 7:52:16 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

A Long term solution is enforcing our immigration laws PERIOD.


2 posted on 06/17/2012 7:55:34 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Bigtigermike

If the order is unconstitutional, why won’t Romney overturn it?


3 posted on 06/17/2012 7:56:47 AM PDT by WilliamIII
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To: Bigtigermike
He doesn't want to talk about it.

Now leave Mittney alone.

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4 posted on 06/17/2012 7:57:08 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Bigtigermike
Obama’s executive order “would be overtaken by events … by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution.”

In other words, Romney's plan will be even more sweeping.

5 posted on 06/17/2012 7:57:36 AM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: cripplecreek

LOL…Romney could remain silent when asked whether all industry should be nationalized and the MittBot Chorus would chime in with “Mitt’s not falling into the trap…brilliant…”


6 posted on 06/17/2012 8:01:09 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Tau Food

Oh c’mon! It’s not something worth getting angry about! < /RomneyBot off >


7 posted on 06/17/2012 8:01:24 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: Bigtigermike

FUMR

2016 can’t come soon enough - no matter who is in the White House.


8 posted on 06/17/2012 8:01:47 AM PDT by kevcol
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To: Bigtigermike

The Congress is going to tie this mess up in the courts. I heard it from a US Congressman yesterday in a face-to-face conversation.


9 posted on 06/17/2012 8:03:58 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Bigtigermike
That's it folks.

The "Republican" candidate is OK with a tyrannical, un-Constitutional edict.

What's to vote for?

10 posted on 06/17/2012 8:04:08 AM PDT by Regulator
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git it on with steve king’s lawsuit, enough of the commie lawlessness. romney is pathetic, Newt has it going with real dreamers dreamin’ about following the Constitution.


11 posted on 06/17/2012 8:04:27 AM PDT by biggredd1
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Obama’s looking better and better - as long as he’s restrained by GOP majorities in both houses. If Romney becomes prez, he’ll use Democratic minorities and GOP centrists to get his liberal legislation passed. Whereas Obama provides no political cover for GOP turncoats in Congress.


12 posted on 06/17/2012 8:08:45 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Well, I have had a question about this whole immigration "it's not amnesty" amnesty thing.

If they know a young person is in the country illegally, because their parents brought them here illegally; then, can we deport the parents, because obviously they are in the country illegally?

13 posted on 06/17/2012 8:11:12 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: Bigtigermike

Congress remains silent too. And they’ve had their prerogatives stripped from them.


14 posted on 06/17/2012 8:11:32 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Zhang Fei

I know what you mean. I plan to vote against both Romney and Obama.


15 posted on 06/17/2012 8:12:13 AM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: Bigtigermike

When a conservative looks to a liberal for solutions, either conservatism has failed utterly or the ‘conservative’ has abandoned his beliefs. No other option.


16 posted on 06/17/2012 8:12:16 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Bigtigermike

In reporting the story of Obama’s unconstitutional action, it’s continually said that the government will stop deporting the young illegals who fall into this Dream Act category. That’s just ignorant, or deliberately dishonest reporting because they had already reduce deportations to nothing but known criminals and few others.


17 posted on 06/17/2012 8:12:52 AM PDT by Will88
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To: Bigtigermike

Once again, Obama has everybody talking about something not the economy.

He’s actually pretty good at this...and the msm is only too happy to help.


18 posted on 06/17/2012 8:15:33 AM PDT by kjo (+)
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To: LibertarianLiz
If they know a young person is in the country illegally, because their parents brought them here illegally; then, can we deport the parents, because obviously they are in the country illegally?

This the "hook", you see we don't break up families, that is inhumane, so they all get to stay.

19 posted on 06/17/2012 8:15:59 AM PDT by Kakaze (I want The Republic back !)
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To: Bigtigermike

Romney’s smart not to let Obama change the political discussion away from Obama’s horrid economy, and record as the POTUS. Obama despertely needs to muddle the waters if he has any chance at all for re-election.

Much as I dislike Romney, I must say that he is doing the right thing in Campaign 2012 by keeping the focus on Obama’s dismal record.

Don’t get drawn into playing to Obama’s gambit. Stay focused upon what Obama and his supermajority Congress of Pelosi and Reid have done to the fabric of this nation.

Immigration policy, despite Obama’s recent EO, is the perogative of the Congress. Make sure we get as Conservative a Congresss as we can in 2012 so that we can hold the President’s feet to a blazing fire of Conservatism.


20 posted on 06/17/2012 8:16:31 AM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry bear formerly known as..........Ursus Arctos Horribilis.)
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