Mitt Romney refuses to take position on deporting DREAM Act kids

[ProSense]

Mitt Romney refuses to take position on deporting DREAM Act kids

by Jed Lewison

This is typical Mitt Romney: say something that sounds kind of reasonable ... until you realize he completely failed to address the issue at hand.

Okay, so Mitt Romney says he's unhappy because this is a short-term solution and he wants a long-term one. Great. Well, what long-term solution does he want? He refuses to say. Romney says he backs Marco Rubio ... but Marco Rubio doesn't have any legislation for Romney to endorse. And when reporters asked Romney whether he'd reverse Obama's decision, he refused to answer.
The Obama campaign should be all over this. Romney is taking the fifth. He won't describe his preferred long-term solution and he won't say what he'd do in the short-term. He's trying to bamboozle both sides into thinking that he's with them.

As I said, it's typical Mitt Romney: it sounds okay until you realize he's speaking out of both sides of his mouth and avoiding the fundamental issue at hand.

...Here's the transcript:

I believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and to be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future will be in this country. I think the action the president took today makes it more difficult to reach that long-term solution because an executive is of course a short-term matter. It can be reversed by subsequent presidents. I'd like to see legislation that deals with this issue, and I happen to agree with Marco Rubio as he looks at this issue. He said that this is an important matter and that we have to find a long-term solution, but that the president's action makes reaching that long-term solution more difficult. If I'm president, we'll do our very best to have that kind of long-term solution that provides certainty and clarity for people who come into this country through no fault of their own through the actions of their parents. Thank you.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/15/1100399/-Mitt-Romney-refuses-to-take-position-on-deporting-DREAM-Act-kids

Ooh, cowardly!

Whatever happened to self-deportation and his promise to veto the DREAM Act? Flashback:

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• Self-Deportation: At a debate in January, Romney announced that the centerpiece of his immigration plan is to make undocumented immigrants “self-deport” because they “decide that they can do better by going home because they can’t find work here because they don’t have legal documentation to allow them to work here.” A Romney spokesperson later confirmed that Romney would do far more than simply target undocumented workers: “You turn off the magnets, no in state tuition, no benefits of any kind, no employment.”
  
  
• Killing The DREAM: Last December, Romney promised to veto the DREAM Act, which permits undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to be placed on a path to citizenship if they graduate from college or serve in the military.
  
  
• Attrition By Enforcement: Former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce (R-AZ), the lead sponsor of Arizona’s harsh immigration law, said that Romney’s “immigration policy is identical to mine.” Pearce said they both share the same goal of “attrition by enforcement.”
  
  
• The Kobach Connection: Romney proudly accepted the endorsement of Kris Kobach, the author of Arizona and Alabama’s immigration laws. In additional to serving as Kansas’ Secretary of State, Kobach is an attorney with the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal branch of Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has labeled as a “nativist hate group.” Yet Romney did not simply accept this questionable endorsement, he campaigned with Kobach in South Carolina — on Martin Luther King Day. Although the Romney made a failed attempt to distance itself from Kobach after the primary effectively ended, Kobach remains an immigration policy advisor to Romney and his campaign.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/08/480164/rnc-romney-is-still-deciding-what-his-position-on-immigration-is

[monmouth]

1. He'll be on Face the Nation with Schieffer this Sunday. Maybe Bob will ask

him this pertinent question....Hahaha, I'm kidding of course. Bob will give him doughnuts, chocolate ones now that he knows what they are.

[SoutherDem]

2. I still wonder how he stands without a backbone

I guess he has strings like a puppet.

Today he took a no stand stand. That is where he can support or reject it once he sees how the American people feel, no he doesn't care about them, how his big money supporters feel.

[railsback]

3. Sounds like a pretty decided position to me

He's just hiding behind the GOP's skirt.

[jberryhill]

4. "It can be reversed by subsequent president"

No shit, Mitt. You wouldn't happen to know anyone who wants to be a subsequent president and whether they might do a thing like that, would you?

[ProSense]

5. Just sayin'!

Love Mitt "Veto the DREAM Act" Romney

[michaelcobb]

6. Mitt is a political windsock.

He is gutless.

[lpbk2713]

7. He's a mountain of Jello.

He knows he needs the Latino vote and he doesn't want to cross the Teabagger Minutemen border vigilantes.


Some times I don't know if I should or at this clown.

[Enrique]

8. he got locked out of his bus right after this

which prevented a quick getaway from the reporters.


http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7411786n&tag=strip

[ProSense]

9. Seems he was

as confused about how to open the door as he was about those chocolate "goodies" (i.e., donuts).