Christie, why do you object to seeing Palin’s own comments in print?
I favor them going home. Her stated policy is for them to register and stay.
Yes, I agree, what a concept. I just wish Sarah agreed with us. So far she has avoided saying that.
If someone can find an interview where she advocates for that, and renounces her former stance, I’d be glad to stop quoting her.
do you really think it’s feasible that all 12,000,000 will go home? Can you really envision any scenario under which that comes even close to happening? Please explain how you see them going home? How will it happen? How long will it take? There are 12M illegals here now. Under your plan, how will that # go down to say even 6M? Let alone say 0?
The last in-depth interview isn’t really as you make it out to be. It’s from 2010 with BOR and here’s the relevant part:
PALIN: You know, there has to be that expectation that they will work and that they will contribute. Bill, it makes me uncomfortable that we’re even going down that path so far…
(She’s uncomfortable even talking about letting people stay, which BOR brought up, and kept interrupting her and forcing her to answer, badgering almost)
O’REILLY: You have to though.
PALIN: …when — no, no.
O’REILLY: You have to go down the path because it’s going to come up.
PALIN: American citizens who are here lawfully, they need to be the ones with the first shot at getting these jobs. We cannot make it easy on those who have chosen to be illegally here to disobey our laws. No.
That first shot needs to be fleshed out more, but that’s not exactly a pro-amnesty stance)
O’REILLY: No, we can’t make it easy, but they’re here. And we can’t starve them to death. And if they can’t work, if they don’t have a green card to work, they’re going to be hosed. I mean, they got to pay rent, they got to buy groceries…
PALIN: Well…
O’REILLY: …this, that and the other thing. So this is where it gets very complicated, governor. You know, it gets very, very complicated…
PALIN: No.
O’REILLY: …because you are rewarding bad behavior. You’re letting them stay in the United States. And they came in illegally.
PALIN: Then let’s keep it — then we won’t complicate it anymore. Let’s keep it simple. And let’s say no, if you are here illegally, and if you don’t follow the steps that at some point through immigration reform we’re going to be able to provide, and that is to somehow allow to you work. If you’re not going to do that, then you will be deported. You will be gone.
(So here she seems to indicate taht yes, some will be allowed to say. At some distant point, AFTER the border has been fully secured and some other things have happened. Much, much tougher than the instant legalization Rubio and the GOP is pushing. And after that, no citizenship. She never mentions it. She mentions some sort of work status for those who’ve followed all the steps. And honestly, I’d bet most won’t follow the steps. And those people will be “deported” in her words. Right there she’s talking about deporting millions of illegals.)
O’REILLY: OK, we’ve established that.
PALIN: But let’s look at case history.
O’REILLY: Yes, we’ve established that.
PALIN: Let’s look at what, you know, political hero Ronald Reagan tried to do with 3 million illegals all those years ago.
O’REILLY: He botched it though, governor. Reagan botched it.
PALIN: Exactly.
O’REILLY: He botched it.
PALIN: That’s what I’m saying. So we learn from history. We won’t do what he did.
(Won’t repeat Reagan’s mistakes)
I’d like to hear more as well but she never supports a path to citizenship in this interview. She fully supports fully securing the border, completing all fencing, militarizing the border, etc... BEFORE any other steps are even considered. She does seem to support a 60 day period that illegals would have to register at some point for some kind of guest worker program(anyone who doesn’t register during that period will be deported). So yes, she does seem to support some # of folks being allowed to remain as workers, but again, only after US citizens have gotten first dibs. (i’d like to hear more about that, maybe she means no registration until say unemployment is back below 5%)
The bottom line seems to be that she calls for fully securing the border before anything else. Then at some point implementing some guest worker program to deal with those already here in some fashion. She never mentions citizenship and never says she supports it.
She’s also now said that she does not support the current bill.
I’d like to hear more, but that’s where we are.