“That’s so misleading as to be a misquote. The only illegals she was advocating being deported were those who didn’t register for amnesty. (Though she wouldn’t call it ‘amnesty’.)”
No, Sarah Palin does not support amnesty of any kind. She wants to force people who are here illegally to register. If they don’t register she supports immediately expelling them. If they do register they become part of a work program that has a specific end date. At the end of that period they too must leave. I believe this is a brilliant strategy; it denies the left the opportunity to use sob stories about people being thrown out with out warning. It also allows the government to identify where these people live and where they work, making it easier to deport them when their work visa expires. That approach combined with a streamlining of the existing I9 process (enter everything into a database so you can cross reference SSN and names) so it can be used to identify people who are using fake identification documents and you have a solution to our immigration problem that is efficient, effective, and hard for the bleeding heart agitators on the left to attack.
Sarah Palin in my opinion is one of the few Republicans who has a handle on this issue and who has enough of a backbone to make it happen.
Good ideas.....ordinarily I’m not opposed to migrant workers who came, work a while then go home. However, with the shortage of jobs, I want every available job for Americans. I’ve got an 18 year old that shouldn’t have to compete with an illegal alien for a $10/hr job. If there are 500K illegals in AZ and only half are working, that’s 250K jobs taht Arizonans don’t have and don’t anybody say they are jobs Americans won’t do....there are NO jobs Americans won’t do. We built this country by hand.
Where has she specified the end of work date and that they then have to leave? (I’d be happy to read or listen to such specifics being articulated.) And with a practical unemployment rate already of nearly 20%? And if you believe people are getting forced out after that...
Technically, having the illegal aliens register and stay, even if it is for temporary work, is still amnesty, and it does encourage more illegal immigration.
That said, yes it is easier to find them and deport them if they don't leave, after they have registered, and after their temporary work visa expires.
I agree...