Romney could have turned this right back toward the narrative:
“This decision certainly won’t help Americans find jobs, and it won’t help our $1 trillion US student loan debt crisis.”
Romney could have threaded-the-needle, saying:
“Americans are compassionate people. Hard-working young illegals should seek private sector US sponsors to *VOLUNTARILY* help them to apply for legal status in this country, enter the country legally, and help cover their full college-tuition costs [no Federal, State or Local government subsidies for their education costs].”
““Americans are compassionate people. Hard-working young illegals should seek private sector US sponsors to *VOLUNTARILY* help them to apply for legal status in this country, “
One of my friends is doing something like this. She has adopted one of her daughter’s friends, a teenage latina whose illegal alien mother brought her here when she was very young.