Posted by
Dan Ducado on Friday, December 28, 2007 1:41:35 PM
As
promised, here are the correct matchings between each Republican
candidate and that candidate's quoted statement on Immigration. My
source for the quotations is the
NY Times. Hope you enjoyed playing the "Immigration Game".
| Candidate | Actual Quote |
| Rudy Giuliani | 3.
"If anybody is here illegally, they should never get to be put ahead of
a line of people that are here legally. They should have to pay a
penalty, because there should not be amnesty. It's a civil wrong. Civil
wrongs are compensated by paying penalties. They should pay the back
taxes. And if you ultimately find a way to make them citizens, then
there should be a very, very strong requirement that they speak
English, read English, write English, and understand American history." |
| Mike Huckabee | 4.
"We shouldn't have amnesty where we just say, "Fine, everybody's good,
we're going to let it go." We should have a process where people can
pay the penalties, step up and accept responsibility for not being here
legally.
But here's the point. The objective is not to be punitive. The objective is to make things right. Right for us. Right for them." |
| John McCain | 6.
"[W]e need to have a guest worker program.our proposal is basically you
can get a tamper-proof visa after your job has been proven that it
cannot be filled by an American citizen. Now, what do you do with the
11 million people that are already here?[M]ake them earn citizenship
because they have broken our laws My friends, thats not amnesty.
Amnesty is forgiveness. Were not forgiving anything." |
| Ron Paul | 1.
"The talk must stop. We must secure our borders now. A nation without
secure borders is no nation at all. It makes no sense to fight
terrorists abroad when our own front door is left unlocked." |
| Mitt Romney | 2.
"My view, you have to secure the border, number one, have an employment
verification system, number two, and number three, say to those that
are there illegally, get in line with everybody else; you're not going
to have a special doorway, any particular advantage, by having come
here illegally, to become a permanent resident." |
| Fred D. Thompson | 5.
"You know, if you have the right kind of policies, and you're not
encouraging people to come here and encouraging them to stay once
they're here, they'll go back, many of them, of their own volition,
instead of having to, you know, load up moving vans and rounding people
up." |