It’s the final month of the presidential campaign, and you can tell the competition for positions in government by various pundits and analysts is heating up. Today Rosario Marin lays out the “real” Romney agenda on immigration, which sounds similar to the “real” Bush agenda i.e. low on specifics.<\/p>\n
“The chairman of a House subcommittee on immigration slammed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s handling of the arrest of journalist and activist Jose Antonio Vargas, saying Tuesday that the agency has set a dangerous precedent for dealing with undocumented immigrants,” Politico reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cJose Antonio Vargas is a classic example of how flawed the system is,\u201d Rep. Elton Gallegly, a California Republican who chairs the Judiciary Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement, told POLITICO. \u201cHe is just one of hundreds of thousands that are ignored, and what that does is, it sends a signal that we\u2019re not serious about certain laws.\u201d<\/p>\n “[Elie] Wiesel is a person who stands above politics, and his moral authority to discuss just about any issue is not likely to be challenged. But whatever one might think about immigration or the plight of those who come here illegally, the attempt to eliminate the term, much less compare illegal immigrants to the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust, is absurd. Illegal immigrants are called illegal not because Americans view them with malice but because they are in this country illegally,” says Jonathan S. Tobin at the Commentary Magazine<\/a> site.<\/p>\n “While anyone who grew up admiring Wiesel as a moral voice must approach any criticism of him with reluctance, if Hinojosa\u2019s recollection is correct, he has, unfortunately, done something that he has often criticized: made an inappropriate use of a Holocaust analogy.”<\/p>\n Former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin has an op-ed in The Hill where he responds to criticism of Romney’s immigration positions.<\/p>\n “Governor Romney isn\u2019t interested in temporary, stop-gap measures and he\u2019s not interested in playing political games with families’ futures. That\u2019s been the hallmark of President Obama\u2019s approach to immigration for the past four years,” Marin says<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Instead, as president, Mitt Romney will pursue bold reforms to our immigration system based on an approach of modernizing and simplifying our legal immigration system, putting in place far, enforceable and common-sense border security measures, and pursuing a permanent solution for children who were brought into the country illegally, through no fault of their own.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the final month of the presidential campaign, and you can tell the competition for positions in government by various pundits and analysts is heating up. Today Rosario Marin lays out the “real” Romney agenda on immigration, which sounds similar to the “real” Bush agenda i.e. low on specifics. Rep. Gallegly Says ICE Refusal to<\/p>\nJonathan Tobin – Why Even Elie Wiesel Can Be Wrong About the Term “Illegal Immigrant”<\/h3>\n
Rosario Marin: The Real Romney Position on Immigration<\/h3>\n