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Subscribe to RSSIn remarks he delivered in Florida before Latino political leaders, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney once again declined to answer if he would overturn President Obama's executive action to no longer deport qualified young illegal immigrants.
Instead, Romney explained that he would work to craft a long-term solution dealing with illegal immigration.
"Some people have asked if I will let stand the president's executive action," Romney said at the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials' conference. "The answer is that I will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president's temporary measure."
Left unsaid, of course, is what Romney -- if elected president -- would do before signing long-term legislation into law, or if the legislation couldn't be passed. Remember: Due to congressional opposition, both George W. Bush and Barack Obama have been unable to pass comprehensive legislation dealing with illegal immigration.
Today wasn't the first time Romney has declined to say if he would overturn Obama's policy to no longer deport young illegal immigrants who have graduated from high school, who are serving in the military, and who have a clean criminal record.
Mitt Romney criticized the action after the president announced it last Friday. The reason: because it is temporary.
“I think the action that the president took today makes it more difficult to reach that long-term solution, because an executive order is, of course, just a short-term matter.”
He added that Obama's executive action can be “reversed by subsequent presidents.”
But that begged the question: Would a President Romney reverse it?
It was exactly the question CBS' Bob Schieffer asked him last weekend.
BOB SCHIEFFER: Sure, but would you repeal this?
MITT ROMNEY: Well, it would be overtaken by events, if you will, by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with-- with legislation which creates law that relates to these individuals, such that they know what their-- their stat-- setting is going to be
BOB SCHIEFFER: I-- I won't keep on about this but just to-- to make sure I understand, would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it?
MITT ROMNEY: We'll-- we'll look at that-- we'll look at that setting as we-- as we reach that. But my anticipation is, I'd come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis, not this kind of a stopgap measure. What-- what the president did, he-- he should have worked on this years ago. If he felt seriously about this, he should have taken action when he had a Democrat House and Senate, but he didn't. He saves these sort of things until four and a half months before the general election.
The Obama campaign issued this response to Romney's speech: “Today, Mitt Romney told the largest national gathering of Hispanic elected officials: ‘When I make a promise to you - I will keep it.’ But in front of an audience of Republican primary voters, he called the DREAM Act a ‘handout’ and promised to veto it. Now, after seven days of refusing to say whether or not he’d repeal the Obama administration’s immigration action that prevents young people who were brought here through no fault of their own as children from being deported, we should take him at his word that he will veto the DREAM Act as president.”
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Flipper Mitt,insufferable Ditto Heads.
Willard the Rat, long tail, long trail.
Jobs where are the Jobs well Speaker Boehner just blocked releasing the transportation money already approved but he said this is what the American people wants as 6,000 workers. But it seem Latino bashing is more important as Mitt knows he will deport all immigrants and let the rest of Americans do the work. Mitt will allow wealthy friends and corporation keep the illegal immigrant employees. Mitt still has illegals working for him because to the low salaries he pays.
RobUS Romney wouldn't say @!$%# about politics if he had a mouth full of it. He's nothing but a spineless draft dodging richboy republican pussy. (Oh but my daddy bought me out of Vietnam, doesn't that count?) He would be the first one to send our servicemen and women off to WAR. You won't see his sorry A$$ in harms way though. I can't stand his lieing worthless A$$.
OBAM/BIDEN 2012 Vote Democrat all the way. Get rid of those coward republican politicians.
Willard doesn't care. His money was your money, thats his motto.
Buying their sons out of war must be a THING with repubiCONS. About all they are good for is STARTING wars. "It ain't me.....It ain't me....I ain't no fortunate one"
Willing.Sniper
Romney saved his state of Massachusetts from being the worst state in the union on
"jobs" he rescued in the nick of time from it's former Democrat successors death spiral!
And by the way, while Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, the unemployment rate dropped
from 5.7% to 4.9%.
Under Obama we have had unemployment over 40 months ABOVE 8%. HOW does this help any Latino? How?
#77 - Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:06 PM MDT
Willing.sniper: I don't think even a stupid republican can believe that BULL your trying to sell. You sound like the liar himself (ROMNEY). Now go take a shower and get all that BULL*&^% off of yourself.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Mitt Robme will go after immigrants with a vengeance..OR...he will just keep them around to keep labor costs down. We've seen how republiCONS lie while running for office.
ANYone but a republiCON in 2012-unless you like depressions.
MSNBC and Obama are in the same area of the gutter each telling the other HEY you do not stink, an Romney won't go there.
lol Another great example of what a leader Romney is. Can't even answer a question about immigration.
Jim
Its hard for Romney to answer anything when Obama,s NBC (nationally broadcasting crap) will grossly edit and distort the segment and play that edited and distorted segment on the Andrea Mitchell, Rachel Maddow, and ed show.
just like they did on his Michigan campaign on Wawas when Romney was comparing the efficiency of private market to the inefficiency of the big government bureaucracy.
its a good thing that many responsible news networks to include Latino networks showed the full clip and context of the comparison.
If you want another 4 years of Obama then all I can say is GOTTA BE IN THE WATER THAT THEY ARE DRINKING
Romney wont have to do anything besause Obama,s action violates the constitution and the judicial process like Obama has done many times already.
the executive order was a political stunt by Obama who will do anything to get re-elected even though he has no record of accomplishments.This is an update for you liberals who don.t do your own research.
A revised dream act bill that failed in the senate in 2010 (HR1842) as of June 1 2012 is being reviewed by the sub committee on immigration policy and enforcement- so why can,t Obama wait for the bill to go through the senate SIMPLE he wants to make himself look good like he did On Bin Laden.
its a shame and a disgrace that his grandstanding and leaking sensitive information on the operation got Seal Team 6 killed a few weeks later. WAY TO GO OBAMA
Obama only cares about himself and no one else.
With the Romney family wealth already in place, he could easily afford not to take a salary. But he more than made up for it at Bain, yessirrreee baby. Bring on the big bucks. Notice that his Daddy bought he and his charity minded wife their first home. With that kind of financial backing how can you lose?
Regarding his immigration status - he does not have an answer. This man is without solutions.
Obama/Biden2012
Gov. Romney is version (1) of President George W. Bush.................America wake-up!!!!
VOTE............... OBAMA/BIDEN 2012..................................GOD BLESS AMERICA
I wonder if the American voters of hispanic descent are asking why President Obama waited until a few months before his bid to stay in office to do anything he promised them during his last campaign? And what he's done is a joke on them. It's not a meaningful, long term solution or even really legal like what Rubio had proposed. I think his action was an insult to their intelligence!
Who is the original flip-flopper? Gov Romney......Who would make all immigrants living life a hell so they would SELF-DEPORT? Gov Romney.....Who would replace President Obama's temporary relief plan with his PERMANENT VAGUE NOTHING PLAN? Gov. Romney......Who argued decisively against Gov Rick Perry in the Republican's debate against giving illegal immigrants in-state tuition grants? Gov Romney............................................................................................................................
2nd CORINTHIANS 5 v 10....For we must all appear before the judgment seat of CHRIST; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Obama threw away the entire south and much of the midwest with endorsing gay marriage. Obama is losing much of his union base with this amnesty action. He is scaring Americans by disregarding the constitution and bypassing congress. He has raised so many eyebrows with his cover-up of the fast and furious documents.
Obama has already lost this election. What an idiot.
Several facts are clear; illegals are here, they are working, and their children do attend school. Illegals do indeed work. Companies do indeed hire illegals. Schools do indeed educate the children of illegals. If the United States allowed all illegals to stay, and started collecting federal and state taxes from the companies that have hired the millions of illegal workers, what would be wrong with that approach? Oh, they are breaking the laws of the land. So why has the government (state or federal) not put a single employer in jail? If you have vacation time available, you need to visit the Central Valley of California and watch illegals working in farm fields. Or you need to visit Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California and watch illegals cleaning swimming pools, mowing grass at country clubs, performing landscaping services, cleaning homes, washing cars, washing windows, and dozens of other jobs, including home building. Face it, you are not mad that illegals are here, you are made that they will work hard, for less money, just to have a shot at the dream your great grand parents were seeking when they arrived in America, and worked hard to stay here, educate their children, and the rest is history. Like it or not, illegals perform millions of jobs everyday, and millions of illegal children are getting an education, thanks to the American Dream.
i'm a minority ,,,,i would vote romney out of any office ,,,,,, oh wait he's unemployed right now !! talk with latino's got an F- , and there's you're toma for today !!!
Beaking News: Mit Romney to a crowd foreign engineering graduates willing to work here more cheaply than American engineering graduates " I'm more pro-amnesty than Obama".
THE TRUE COLORS ARE NOW SHOWING ITSELF !!! ROMPNEY YO-HO and all his CONGRESSIONAL UPPER CLASS CLOWN SUIT POLITICIANS are TRUE, BIGOTS, RACIST, DO NOT CARE FOR HUMAN LIFE, DISCRIMINATORY, GREEDY, the list is endless.
The sheer lies and not answering the CALL OF THE PEOPLE. GOD is showing the DEVIL in action.
The CHURCHES are in AWE I'm sure!! Their needs a PRAYER for the saying "WE CAN DO BETTER" Yea WHAT ?? You get NO ANSWERS !!!!
Rompney and Congress are doing the TWO-STEP DANCE ! Hopefully OUT THE CAPITAL DOORS onto the streets bare assed with nothing to show but HUMILIATION and the PEOPLE Do not care about YOU anymore PERIOD !
You IDIOTS and the CONSTITUTION VIOLATIONS. OBAMA has studied about CONSTITUTIONAL LAW i may say. YOU HAVE NOT!
SO PROVE THAT HE VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION !!!! Give us the DETAILS about where in the constitution he has violated????
MORE REPUKE/ TEA-SHYSTING WAYS I see meaning more RETARDS are free from the SANITARIUMS !!!!
Hey JOHN-1960608 is that your SANITARIUM patient #? It has to be! how did you escape? Your now DELUSIONAL !!! Better get back and take your MEDS for RETARDS !!!
If Romney does win, I wonder how long it will take for BOA to pass out free ID's to as many illegals as possible. Recall 2003 to 2006? Forget about the rules on immigration, those as just for Democrats so they can be hounded by Teabaggers financed by phoney GOP money men. They'll just stay in the shadows and tell the dumbest of their backers (75 %) it was the Democrats fault.
What the doltish columnist who wrote this for MSLSD.com does not grasp, either because of an intellectual deficiency and/or a desire to buck up their losing candidate President Obama, is that Romney doesn't have to say anything now other than in general terms.
The details will come after the conventions when the electorate will be paying more attention and not now when they are mostly just worrying about how to pay their bills in this thriving, expanding Obama economy.
Whats the matter msnbc? Having a hard time burying fast and furious?
Rommie boo want those colored votes too.