It doesn’t matter how many times nice young men mow his lawn, Mitt Romney isn’t going to sign the DREAM Act into law.
“The answer is yes,” he said, when asked if he would veto the legislation if Congress passes it and he is in the White House.
Romney said, however, that he would support granting children of illegal immigrants some form of residency in exchange for military service. “I’m delighted with the idea that people who come to this country and wish to serve in the military can be given a path to become permanent residents of this country,” he said, according to CNN.
So, to make sure that we have this straight…if your parents bring you to this country illegally, and you grow up here and go to school here, Mitt Romney says you can sign up to do a tour in Afghanistan but you can’t vote or get in-state school tuition or become a citizen, ever. If you join the military, maybe you can get some kind of residency thing, so the cops won’t hassle you.
You’d think a nice person like Mitt Romney would be too polite to say something like that. Instead of the DREAM Act, he wants to give us the BROWN CANNON FODDER Act. Isn’t that swell?
Poor Rick Perry, he should have though of it first.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been savaged by his fellow GOP contenders and conservative critics for Texas’ decision to allow children of illegal immigrants to attend state colleges for the in-state tuition rate. At a campaign stop in Boone, Iowa Saturday, Perry defended the program yet again.
He said Texans overwhelming backed the idea, as being in the “best long-term interest of the state” and argued it was a choice between turning them into “tax-wasters” who would require government support or helping to make them skilled, productive residents.
But Romney slapped Perry over the issue again Saturday. “For those who come here illegally, the idea of giving them in-state tuition credits or other special benefits I find to be contrary to the idea of a nation of law,” he said.
Remember, we’re talking about the children of illegal immigrants here. They didn’t “come here” in the normal sense of those words. They were brought here. Maybe they were brought to Massachusetts where they went to school, learned the state capitals, and quite possibly mowed the ex-governor’s law a time or two. It don’t matter to Mitt.
He’s trying to win the nomination, for Pete’s sake.
