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Yesterday Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released a plan that is designed to make distinction between legal and illegal immigration — and also to defuse a damned if you do, damned if you don’t political issue. The key points:
- Romney wants to “grow our economy by growing legal immigration,” according to a campaign fact sheet
- He would raise caps on high-skilled immigrant visas
- He would also streamline the temporary worker visa process
- Expedite family reuinfication
- Create a path to citizenship for young illegal immigrants who serve honorably in the military
- Balance this with a fairly strong illegal immigration policy including e-verify, better safeguards for people overstaying visas, and completing the border fence
Many of the details still need to be fleshed out, but this is the broad outline. I’m skeptical of both the politics and the policy of this combination, but it is clear he is trying to achieve the difficult balance of being anti-illegal immigration without appearing anti-Hispanic.
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JimH| 6.22.12 @ 1:40PM
• He would raise caps on high-skilled immigrant visas
• He would also streamline the temporary worker visa process
With these, while I might support higher levels of skilled immigration, it must be done with the elimination or at least drastic reduction of H1B visas. H1B workers are essentially indentured servants brought in to replace American workers. Also unclear is which side of the border is the family to be reunited on.
jppcanton| 6.22.12 @ 1:44PM
Total liberal rubbish. Why, tell me, why do we need to import more people into our country?
"Expedite family reunification"? Are you serious? That's the BIGGEST problem with legal immigration - that's how one immigrant morphs into dozens, as they sponsor their extended family.
Highly skilled immigrants? Why do you need to import Chinese and Indians to do computer/IT work when so many Americans are out of work?
So the latinos will take the low end jobs and Indians & Chinese will take the white collar jobs. What occupations are left for native born Americans?
Kiss my ass Willard.
Zeppo| 6.22.12 @ 2:15PM
My position has been that I will vote for Romney unless he gives me too many reasons not to. He is off to a flying start with this nonsense.
Red Phillips | 6.22.12 @ 5:50PM
What kind of "conservative" is for the further cultural and ethnic dissolution of his country, because that is what immigration, illegal and legal, is.
Has Romney ever looked into how hard it is to immigrate to Japan? Virtually impossible. Because, go figure, the Japanese want Japan to remain Japanese. We do not need more legal immigration. The point of promoting that is to please the cheap labor lobby and inoculate himself against charges of wrongthink. Romney is pathetic.
aware| 6.23.12 @ 1:49PM
He's insidious.
Here's another wonderful thing brought to you by the State: http://thenewamerican.com/econ.....-fire-sale
Reality is this: working and middle class conditioned to believe they can live like the rich with debt instead of wealth. Then their jobs are vaporized and the banks get their homes. The banks get backstopped by the State so they go on a gambling spree at no risk to themselves.
The spree turns out bad, really bad. But the State steps in to "buy" the repos "at a discount", thereby refilling the banker vaults(and bonuses) with instant fiat money.
Now the State(yes, your "government") will make these properties available to a select group(ain't it always?), again "at a discount"(make that pennies on the dollar). The "investors" can then sell them at a big profit as they are beamed out of "government" limbo back into what's left of the private market.
This is how the middle class is being plundered and made destitute. What little actual wealth they had is now in the hands of the very wealthiest, after first being magnified by "Of the People, by the people, for the people"Inc.
How could you have any expectations Romney or Obama would end this kind of legal plunder?
redwolf6911| 6.22.12 @ 6:15PM
Congress and the Tea Parties will keep Willard on the straight and narrow. I will vote for him versus Obama, because if Obama is re-elected, he will finish destroying this country.
aware| 6.23.12 @ 7:02AM
It will be so much better if Mitt finishes destroying this country, right?
Congress and the tea party....now that's hilarious!
By November even you will have trouble supporting this banker stooge.
btims86| 6.23.12 @ 7:37AM
....said the unemployed loser from him daddy's basement. Hatred of the successfull - you fit in perfectly with Big Eared Barry and his race-baiting, class warfare, Marxist roadshow!
Red Phillips | 6.23.12 @ 8:57AM
So btims86, if someone points out that a politician is a stooge for the banksters that means he is a class warfare Marxist who hates the successful? Did you support the bankster bailout? Wasn't most of the opposition to the bankster bailout from the right? Aware is no Marxist.
Good grief. Think a little before you type.
aware| 6.23.12 @ 12:28PM
The problem neo cons have with me is I'm no fascist either. They flatter themselves thinking nobody could possibly be to the right of them. There is a whole other world to the right of them where the real thinkers dwell. But they don't like to think for themselves, it makes their head hurt.
Anybody supporting either of these hired hands of the New World Order is hastening the end of America. Romney will just be more subtle than Barry.
btims86| 6.23.12 @ 3:49PM
Red, let me educate you a bit......when one uses words like "bankster" and "stooge", those are politically charged words with a history of about a century of use by..........Marxists/communists/socialists and Barry Soetoro.
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 3:08PM
BS! Get your head out of your anul cavity and think if possible. 'Bankster bailout'? Do you morons realize that if the ORIGINAL TARP had not been instituted, every bank in this country would have failed [and the government would not have have had the financial means to rescue same]? do you realize that eveyone's checking, saving, CD's etc accounts would have been worthless? Do you realize that the 'banksters' have now totally and completely REPAID every cent that they borrowed WITH INTEREST to the taxpayers of this country? Do you fools understand that the Detroit car manufacturers' still owe $billions to the Treasury and will never repay same, and that their bailout was a political payoff to the labor unions of Detroit? Do you understand that GM and Chrysler would have been better off being taken over/bought by Toyota, Nisson etc and that their workers would still be employed by same without the financial loss to us taxpayers? 'Banksters' my ars!!!!!!!
aware| 6.25.12 @ 6:08AM
Who's the moron? Your position is exactly the same as Obama. He was 4 square in favor of it, too. I'm sure he would be happy to have you on his team.
"Paid back every cent" Is there any lie told by the State you won't swallow? Why don't you put that pea brain to work and see how they "paid" it back. By taking money from the Fed at 0% interest and then "loaning" it to the Treasury at 4%. Sweet, if you have the "government" in your pocket, huh?
Every bank certainly would not have failed, jerk, just the ones that did stupid things. My savings is in silver stacks, as is anybody with a brain and eyes to see. Keep trusting the banks and the "government" and see what that gets you. If you are not protecting yourself. you will get what you richly deserve.
You are the one chasing your tail up your ass. Why is it OK to bail out the banks and not the auto makers? You probably think we have a "capitalist" system, too.
If you had the ability to think you wouldn't always be contradicting yourself and you wouldn't be a perfect patsy for your overlords.
Oldefarte| 6.24.12 @ 3:00PM
Horse excrement fool! 'Banker stooge'? What an asinine statement! I'll take a 'banker stooge' anyday anytime over a GD domestic terrorist street hustler/ambulance chaser for Acorn who is on a clear pathway to total financial destruction of this nation. You Gd idiots are the reason why we now have 20% unemployment etc instead a economic upturn that would have been possible with McCain as POTUS. Forrest Gump was correct......too many citizens in this country are STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!
aware| 6.25.12 @ 5:48AM
No fool like an oldefarte fool.