A question I would like answered by these men is... what are you going to do with the illegals that are already here in this country. It never gets asked. I heard Huckabee in an interview a while back say that we should find some way to legalize them—He is a lib and I will not vote for him!
This is such an easy question to answer. Proving legal residence status OR citizenship and providing social security identification should be required for both jobs and housing. If you can’t do either there is no reason to stay here and frankly, no one is going to stop illegal aliens from leaving.
“A question I would like answered by these men is... what are you going to do with the illegals that are already here in this country. It never gets asked.”
Not directly, but if you listen closely to some of the answers during the debate, you’ll hear their position. I believe it was Huckabee that said in reference to sending them home, don’t look for him to be the one to do it. Guiliani danced and pretty much said everything except directly saying he would give them a path to citizenship, and Fred Thompson has said he opposes a blanket amnesty for all illegals, but we have to figure out who is here and then give them aspirations of citizenship. In contrast, Duncan Hunter has been asked that question directly and has said, “the have to go home”.
More and more (ever since the NJ killings) we are hearing “criminal” illegal aliens. I look for this differentiation, “criminal” vs. “non-criminal” illegal aliens to become the basis for an amnesty compromise.
>>>... what are you going to do with the illegals that are already here in this country. It never gets asked.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864263/posts?page=87#87
Excerpt:
...What do we do about all the people that are already here?
Duncan Hunter: I think we ask them to go home. This country has lost 619 thousand Americans on the battlefields around the world in the last 100 years making the world safe. The reason we are not sending people back to Nazi Germany because we took care of Nazi Germany and we liberated the Germans and the reason we are not sending people back to a Communist Poland is because we brought down the Berlin Wall. The reason we are not sending people back to a Marxist Dictatorship in El Salvador is because we liberated El Salvador. We have made the world much freer. And we have pumped billions of dollars into lots of countries to improve their economies. So I think the United States, more than any nation in the world, has a right to tell folks, you folks stay in your own country, make it work and when you want to come into America knock on the front door.
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