She still supports an amnesty, but just tries to change the definition. Any legislation that allows the lawbreakers to stay and work here, the object of their crimes, is amnesty. Requiring them to register is still an amnesty.
O Reilly: (interrupts) Ok so After a period of time, the ones that don't cooperate then you catch them, they're gone. Now you have these people that register. You are going to have millions of them. Then they register and they say - ok we obeyed what President Palin told us to do -then what? - do you give them green cards to work right away, what do you do with them?
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 when ...
Thanks...same confusing response.
A much CLEANER response would be to say that we build the fence, then end the benefits for the illegals, ALL OF THEM. We start checking job sites and make it clear that business owners face SERIOUS jail time if they’re hiring these guys. We sweep the places where they hang around looking for jobs. If we catch them, we deport. But, in most cases, the illegals will self-deport - if nothing is left for them here.
I think that is the answer we would LIKE to see from her or any other Republican. But they get caught up in the rhetoric: “Sure, they get to stay here, but we will be REALLY MEAN to them - so it’s not Amnesty”.