Republicans and Immigration - Take Note John McCain

Stop ignoring pro-immigrant Republicans! We got you this far, if you put fringe xenophobes ahead of the American people, you will have done more damage to your party than Tom Tancredo could have ever done on his own. Take a look at this Washington Post / ABC News Survey

16. (ASKED OF LEANED REPUBLICANS) Regardless of who you may support, who do you trust
most to handle (ITEM)?
Immigration issues
McCain    27
Giuliani  17       
Huckabee  15

Romney    11
Thompson   9   
If I were to rank the candidates on their views on immigraiton in terms of
rationality & unwillingness to succumb to immigrant bashing it would go as follows:

McCain
Giuliani
Huckabee
Romney
Thompson

See a trend?
If you were to listen to the media or some of the republican candidates  you would
come away thinking republicans are xenophobic bigots who hate all "foreigners".
This assumption is derogatory and the fact that some republican candidates think they
need to pander to a very small xenophobic segment of their electorate is disturbing
and insulting to the Republican party as a whole.

Why Mitt Romney's a Scumbag

So what about Mitt Romney? It turns out his great-grandfather was a polygamous Mormon who evaded prosecution by crossing the border into Mexico with his family, including his son Gaskell, Mitt’s grandfather (see reference). George Wilcken Romney, Mitt’s father, was born in 1907. The Romneys re-entered the United States in 1912, during the Mexican Revolution (although some relatives still live there).

In other words, the Romneys violated federal law, and rather than face the music they fled the United States, crossing illegally into another country, where their Mexico-born descendants acquired the rights of citizenship in the host country. Sound familiar?

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This is why I find Mitt Romney's position on undocumented immigrants so ironic. Never mind that he hires undocumented gardeners, but the fact that he can so easily brush aside his immigrant roots is appalling.

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Another One Packs His Bags

Mitt Romney was counting on his sudden change into an anti-immigration hardliner to take him all the way to the White House, looks like it'll just take him back to his house. I'm sure the undocumented gardeners will at least put up a "Welcome back Scumbag, we're still here" sign.

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Honesty in the Media

Instead of trying to name every one of the thousands of false statements made about immigration on television. I'm going to try to give kudos to those that report the correct information.


1)Juan Williams on FOX News Sunday for pointing out how Romney's harsh immigration stance hurt him in the Florida GOP primary.

2) The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer -For pointing out that California Republicans agree with McCain's more reasonable immigraiton stance more than Romney's by a large margin.
If you know of anyone else please feel free to add.

Florida GOP Primaries -Harsh Immigration Stance A Liability

The ImmigrationProf Blog has an interesting post on this topic. Check it out.

Mitt's Skeleton Closet

By now everyone knows, Mitt Romney is a hypocrite. He hires undocumented gardeners yet vilifies undocumented workers. He implements harsh measures against immigrants but only a few weeks before he leaves the governor's office. Here is Mitt speaking on immigration only of May this year.
My oh my Mitt, do you have a lot of explaining to do.

Click here to watch Mitt's views on Immigration as of May 25, 2007.
3 months later and he does a 180. tsk, tsk.



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