McCain: Romney's 'Self-Deportation' Scheme Is Inhumane
While former Republican presidential nominee John McCain may be a big supporter of Mitt Romney, the Arizona senator isn't a fan when it comes to the GOP frontrunner's policy of "self-deportation" for undocumented immigrants.
During a recent NBC Republican presidential debate in Florida, Romney explained that he would make life for undocumented immigrants so uncomfortable that they would leave the country voluntarily.
"People 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," the candidate said. "If people can’t get work here, they’re going to self-deport to a place where they can get work."
On Saturday, Univision's Jorge Ramos asked McCain if such a policy was humane.
"No," the senator admitted. "I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution than that, and we all know that."
"Do you think that Republicans have lost the Hispanic vote for this election?" Ramos wondered "And, therefore, they're about to lose the White House again?"
"Well, I don't know if they're going to lose the White House again," McCain replied. "But we have to present a humane approach to a very difficult issue of illegal immigration into this country."
(H/T: Think Progress)
We need to show tht AL's plan has been touted as "self deportation", that it is ripping families about and that it is inhumane and possibly unconstitutional. As well as being written by ALEC.
We have to show that ALEC is behind tons of the GOP legislation n boththe states and the federal government. We need to get the liberals to see that corporations and corporate interests are writing laws, not our legislators.
They can always find work. That's never going to change, and we all know that.
But, as for "mak[ing] life for undocumented immigrants so uncomfortable that they would leave the country voluntarily" .. that's already happening. In Georgia and Alabama tens of millions of dollars worth of fruits and vegetables rotted in the fields this last summer due to the draconian anti-immigrant laws passed there. Both undocumented AND documented immigrants left due to the racial profiling that eventuated.
So in essence Romney's "plan" of self-deportation is already in effect.
And anyone of Hispanic origin knows it.
Romney stepped on himself.
Again.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
"But we have to present a humane approach . . . "
Grampa Walnuts changed his shorts? It's only 2012.
annex all of Mexico as the 51st-54th state and be done with it. Then, if the Canadians want, we can make them part of the good ol' USofA, too, long as their willing to make Spanish their 2nd language.
New World Order....yippee!
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/satire...
McCain replied. "But we have to present a humane approach to a very difficult issue of illegal immigration into this country. Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran."
Is Newspeak/Romneyspeak for 'Drive them out'
Is Starving them out Really an Option? It worked on the American Indians in the 1800s by killing off the buffalo Herds of Course the Military helped by Raiding Villages and Killing Women and Children. Women have Babies that Grow up to become Warriors; can't have that!
Maybe Republicans Will support that too in time!
Donaldd
Every time I hear this phrase, I think of Dobby in Harry Potter.
Whenever he committed any sort of error, he would beat himself mercilessly.
That, however, was comic.
This is tragic.
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