Except Romney was probably lying about that stand and I think a lot of people knew it.
The idea that a legal immigrant can be thrown out of the country at the slightest unsigned paperwork but the lawbreakers can expect massive piles of government benefits and free passes to break the law is insanity.
Can expect?
Unrelated to specific GOP-Dem amnesty deals :
Is there any reason to demand that GOP candidates demand that all of those A students who were brought here as kids and now know home but here in USA (we effectively demand that they) be put out on a raft in the middle of the ocean? As they have no other home to be sent to?
I am not at all saying they are conservatives or that I like them personally or to give them anything specific but demanding the above idiocy is a gun against own heads with disastrous results.
Its not defensivable.
Romney was no doubt lying as we both could see at the time and the next candidate will be too as was all the others.
But this is still really bad news.