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Romney: Iowa Probably Doesn’t Have a Lot of Legal Immigrants
Ignoring the relatively high concentration of Hispanic people in Marshalltown, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told a crowd of almost 200 there Friday that “you probably don’t have a lot of immigrants legally” in Iowa.
Marshalltown, which is home to a meatpacking plant operated by Swift and Co., was at the epicenter of a nationwide string of immigration raids in December 2006. The 2000 census measured the percentage of Hispanics in Marshalltown at 12.5%, though that number has likely grown.
“We should not be welcoming” those who cross the border illegally, Romney said in response to a question about illegal immigration. But, Romney noted, “It’s a labyrinth trying to figure out how to get into this country legally.”
Edgar Perez, who attended Romney’s event with classmates from nearby Excel High School, told Iowa Independent that his family successfully navigated the “labyrinth.” After crossing the border from Mexico to the United States with his family, he said they have become “legalized citizens.”
He was unconvinced of Romney’s ability to stop immigration, noting that there are too many jobs in the United States for potential immigrants seeking a better life.
Videos available below the fold.In this video, Perez talks about his family and community in Marshalltown and Mitt Romney states his case for legal immigration and against illegal immigration.
Romney was introduced by Barb Livingston, the Marshall County GOP Chairperson.
Livingston cheerfully reminded the audience that Romney had saved the Olympics in Salt Lake City and that he had once worked at Fisher Controls in Marshalltown. In his speech, Romney reminisced about his consulting days in Iowa. Talking about the ideal conditions for farming in Iowa he said that, “God must have loved Iowa.”
After the event, Livingston acknowledged the complexities of immigration issues to this reporter, noting hardship not only on families but also the economic impact to businesses that lose workers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in and around Marshalltown. ICE is an agency of the Department of Homeland Security.
Livingston said that immigration is one of the top issues in Marshall County.
Romney’s focused some of his speech on what he calls “radical jihadism.” He summarized the Democratic party’s strategy in the War on Terror as one of “defeat and retreat.”
In this video, Mitt Romney talks about how the U.S. has changed after September 11, 2001.
Romney traveled to Waterloo later in the day for more campaigning.
probably don’t have a lot of immigrants legally…. …or do we? I meet many legal immigrants in my day-to-day life…folks from all around the world. Mitt must not have sent his Kittens far enough afield when they were doing their ‘patriotic duty’ to help daddy get a job (for which he isn’t remotely qualified) if they’ve no clue about immigrants in Iowa. As an immigrant to Iowa myself, it disturbs me to see someone who can’t seem to inculcate true patriotism in his own spawn trying to foment anti-immigrant, unAmerican sentiment in our fair state. Seems they’re listening to the voices in their heads again…and trying to get us to buy into their politics of hate.
BHappy
RegularJoe Are you a complete idiot? Do you have a clue or even one brain cell left? Mitt Romney is more qualified than all the rest of the candidates combined in either party. He graduated from Harvard with a Business degree and from Harvard Law School with a law degree and also from Brigham Young University. He was at the top of his class each time as well as graduating with honors. He has been instrumental in turning around over 300 companies with financial or administrative problems including Dominoes Pizza and Staples. He turned the corruption filled Salt Lake Olympics around after he was called in to save them. He did just that and made them the most successful Winter Olympics in history. He was elected Governor of Mass. quite an accomplishment in its self in a state the is like 80% Democr. He closed loopholes in the tax system and raised a lot of funds for the State without raising taxes He knew how to gain tremendous support from the revenue happy dems in the State Legislator as with his business genious and savy he got the budget balanced and unlike Hillary Rotten Clinton he got a health care bill passed. Then he gave Ted Kennedy a real scare in the senate race in a state where Ted Kennedy is more loved than clam chowder. It was the first time in decades that Ted Kennedy had to do any campaigning. Not qualified the man is the most qualified in the history of our country, you bumbling moron!
Naughten
AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS
It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested. When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.
When the seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated guest workers, the experience is mutually positive.
When season guest workers return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for low paying jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services. Mexico is land very rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically retarded are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them – it is so deplorable than none of them want to return to it. The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America’s worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods. With each deportation America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico. America is presently occupied by over 12 million aliens, mostly Mexicans.
With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language;crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.
When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Leftist Democrats and Neo-Conservative Republicans will lose millions of political supporters and the large sums of money that they receive from the Mexican Lobby. American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will their lose their illegal competitive advantages.
No advanced civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a retarded civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, and armed border guards.
RegularJoe
probably don't have a lot of immigrants legally…. …or do we? I meet many legal immigrants in my day-to-day life…folks from all around the world. Mitt must not have sent his Kittens far enough afield when they were doing their 'patriotic duty' to help daddy get a job (for which he isn't remotely qualified) if they've no clue about immigrants in Iowa. As an immigrant to Iowa myself, it disturbs me to see someone who can't seem to inculcate true patriotism in his own spawn trying to foment anti-immigrant, unAmerican sentiment in our fair state. Seems they're listening to the voices in their heads again…and trying to get us to buy into their politics of hate.
BHappy
RegularJoe Are you a complete idiot? Do you have a clue or even one brain cell left? Mitt Romney is more qualified than all the rest of the candidates combined in either party. He graduated from Harvard with a Business degree and from Harvard Law School with a law degree and also from Brigham Young University. He was at the top of his class each time as well as graduating with honors. He has been instrumental in turning around over 300 companies with financial or administrative problems including Dominoes Pizza and Staples. He turned the corruption filled Salt Lake Olympics around after he was called in to save them. He did just that and made them the most successful Winter Olympics in history. He was elected Governor of Mass. quite an accomplishment in its self in a state the is like 80% Democr. He closed loopholes in the tax system and raised a lot of funds for the State without raising taxes He knew how to gain tremendous support from the revenue happy dems in the State Legislator as with his business genious and savy he got the budget balanced and unlike Hillary Rotten Clinton he got a health care bill passed. Then he gave Ted Kennedy a real scare in the senate race in a state where Ted Kennedy is more loved than clam chowder. It was the first time in decades that Ted Kennedy had to do any campaigning. Not qualified the man is the most qualified in the history of our country, you bumbling moron!
Bittanicus
Illegal immigration and Politics Like hundreds of previous registered Democrats and Republicans, I have joined the ranks of Independant voters. After 30 years of following the rhetoric of Democrats, I decided to take the initiative and change the usual stance of either parties. I am especially angry and frustrated with the illegal immigration policy. It seems to me if we can fight foreign wars on behalf of the globalists, we would have no problem deporting the estimated 20 million foreign nationals in our society. Mitt Romney seems to have a better understanding of the fermenting conflict of the illegal alien enigma. Certainly to be a furious, front burner issue in the primaries and the 2008 election. Mitt Romney must listen to the will of THE PEOPLE, if he has any chance of building a consensus on the this economic disaster. In fact all Presidential candidates better become tuned-in to the citizens of this great country. Because anybody who seems to pander to the pro-illegal immigration entities will be thoroughly thrashed in this campaign. Many of our politicians have intentionally ignored this issue, thinking that healthcare, the war and taxes will have the main momentum.
Let us take a look at this massive problem that has been constantly growing for over three decades, and the pandering public servants on both sides of the political fence. It is now a sad issue with me, because Senator Hillary Clinton took the side of the Governor of New York state. It looks like Sen. Hillary Clinton has burnt her own boat, because she agreed with Governor Spitzer (NY) who demanded issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens. With the primaries approaching and the 2008 election, she has shown to be a panderer to to the globalist, open border extremists as she married herself to “LA RAZA” a radical organization, that has a hallucinogenic dream of returning SouthWest America to a corrupt Mexico. This un-American entity is also funded by taxpayers and the corporate cartels. It is rather a shame as I would have tested the waters for her desire to promote a Universal Health Care. But as an Independant I have lost that initultive
After the 9/11 conflagration at the World Trade Center, you would think that our supposedly rational-speaking politicians, would condemn any dangerous legislation like this? We are constantly reminded that most of our multi-millionaire presidential candidates have a desire for unfettered movement of cheap, itinerant labor onto our shores. They follow the King Bush and Royal court ideology of free trade agreements that has paralyzed our own internal industries; made Communist China rich and other countries. We have become a welfare, free-loading nation for anybody who can break our soveignty laws and illegally enter America.
But citizens must be congratulated, because we THE PEOPLE have terminated up to now, sleight-of-hand illegal alien amnesty. Sen. Harry Reid and his co-conspirator Ted Kennedy found themselves in a unparalled turmoil, of the taxpayers explosion of seething anger over the ominous March Comprehensive Immigration bill. They lost and were arrogant enough several times to underhandedly slip the bills in appropriations bill. After two tries they gave up, but still tried to slip through THE DREAM ACT. Yet again, they fell short. As I speak a new farm bill came to be voted on, with another amnesty amendment as an addendum which would have allowed 3.1 million guest workers into America. The taxpayers of course would be footing the bill for sickeness and other government benefits, while the corporate farmer pays nothing. Remember that good, old time liberal Ted Kennedy promised no more amnesties, after the 1986 Simpson/ Mazzoli bill. As we go into a 30 year period of massive treasury deficits, economic turn downs and paramount loans from paramount other countries, to fight the Iraq war. We must realize that most of our trouble is caused by globalist, free trade and we cannot afford another free marketeer in the White House. Hopefully we can remove ourselves from the World Bank, and other entities associated with so-called free trade. Our agreements have never been fairly negotiated and must be brought back to the conference table again.
Sen.Harry Reid, John mcCain and many others have become a parasite on the American Taxpayer. He and many other politicians are just the proverbial tip of the iceburg. These coming primaries the citizens in Nevada, should read the “RIOT ACT, to these disloyal, unpatriotic brain-dead golems.
At last the citizens of this country have spoken about the illegal alien plague, that have had massive economic consequences on the taxpayer. The predator employers have now something to worry about, as well as all pandering politicians in the upcoming 2008 elections. Our leaders have set of a short burning fuse, when they tried to slip into law a gigantic illegal alien amnesty. A “dream Act” that would have given tuition priority of the children of citizens and legal residence. Even this week a new farm bill is in the works, with yet another AMNESTY for cheap foreign workers. But the news is already been broad casted far and wide and without doubt our open-border and free-trade, globalist politicians are going to hear about it, like seething acid in their ears. No longer waiting for Imperial Bush and his Royal court to seal the borders and ports, to strictly enact the laws of the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli Immigration Control laws. A number of forward thinking states including Arizona, Georgia and Oklahoma have enacted rigid Immigration laws, to stop illegal employers and the welfare support of illegal aliens. While other states such as Illinois, Denver and of course Los Angeles have been pegged as Sanctuary cities and I now could lose federal funding, plus being sued by the Federal Government. Several newspapers have cited the exodus of illegal foreign nationals from Oklahoma, as a legal presidence will give reign to other states following their example. I cannot emphasis this paramount development, that shows the ordinary citizen have the power of the vote and will use it against the pro-illegal immigrant globalists in the 2008 general election. The power of THE PEOPLE cannot be intentionally played with, by mindless puppets of our leaders. The race card has no further value, because the taxpayer sees the astronomical costs extracted from them, while the pariah employer pays little or nothing for cheap labor upkeep and their extended families. The American people have had it up to their neck with the freeloaders, who are self-deporting or by “ATTRITION.”
Finally there is an upcoming law that both sides can agree on, including the majority of the American people. Of course this isn't going to pleasing to the open-border, globalists but this time they are in the minority.
CONTACT YOUR SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN/WOMEN TO CO-SPONSER THE”SAVE ACT.”
IF YOU DON'T SEE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE ON THE BY-PARTISAN LIST, DEMAND YOUR PUBLIC SERVANT POLITICIAN TO JOIN IT?
Attrition Through Enforcement Is the True Middle-ground Solution
Rep. Shuler Introduces Bi-partisan SAVE (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement) Act
November 7, 2007: Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) introduced legislation Tuesday emphasizing the principles of Attrition Through Enforcement. The SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) will broaden and enhance border security and interior enforcement. With a number of border security Democrats and Republicans already agreeing to co-sponsor, this bipartisan effort may be Congress
Naughten
AMNESTY CONSIDERATIONS
It is very economically advantageous to use cheap Mexican seasonal agricultural guest workers; it is very socially and economically disadvantageous to let them stay after the crop is harvested. When seasonal guest workers do return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they return with money and experience, to contribute to the development of Mexico; and each year, when a new group of seasonal guest workers comes, they are eager to work for the same low non-citizen wages.
When the seasonal guest workers come from all of the countries of Latin America, on a strict quota system, then every country benefits, not Mexico exclusively; and when they are well treated guest workers, the experience is mutually positive.
When season guest workers return to Mexico at end of the growing season, they do not drive down the wages of American workers, by competing for low paying jobs in landscaping, construction, sanitation, and housekeeping; and they do not use American governmental social services. Mexico is land very rich in natural resources; what makes it so socially and economically retarded are its Mexican People; and wherever they immigrate they bring their deplorable civilization with them – it is so deplorable than none of them want to return to it. The Mexican dream of regaining political control over Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California is America's worst nightmare. Starting at all of the border towns, and spreading northward throughout America, like cancers, are thousands of deplorable Mexican neighborhoods. With each deportation America looks, smells, and sounds less like socially and economically deplorable Mexico. America is presently occupied by over 12 million aliens, mostly Mexicans.
With the deportation of all the illegal immigrants, students will again be able to get good paying summer jobs, to learn responsibility and earn their way through college; blue-collar wages will rise; border towns will not be slums; Spanish will not be a second language;crime will go down; hospitals and prisons will not be overcrowded.
When all of the illegal aliens are deported, the Leftist Democrats and Neo-Conservative Republicans will lose millions of political supporters and the large sums of money that they receive from the Mexican Lobby. American businesses that exploit cheap Mexican labor will their lose their illegal competitive advantages.
No advanced civilization in the World can coexist side by side with a retarded civilization, without a great wall or fence, strict guest labor laws, and armed border guards.
Anonymous
They are all going to be the same – focusing entirely on their opposition to marriage equality and their “outrage” over how the IA Supreme Court could do their job interpreting the constitution to apply to everyone.
Bittanicus
Illegal immigration and Politics Like hundreds of previous registered Democrats and Republicans, I have joined the ranks of Independant voters. After 30 years of following the rhetoric of Democrats, I decided to take the initiative and change the usual stance of either parties. I am especially angry and frustrated with the illegal immigration policy. It seems to me if we can fight foreign wars on behalf of the globalists, we would have no problem deporting the estimated 20 million foreign nationals in our society. Mitt Romney seems to have a better understanding of the fermenting conflict of the illegal alien enigma. Certainly to be a furious, front burner issue in the primaries and the 2008 election. Mitt Romney must listen to the will of THE PEOPLE, if he has any chance of building a consensus on the this economic disaster. In fact all Presidential candidates better become tuned-in to the citizens of this great country. Because anybody who seems to pander to the pro-illegal immigration entities will be thoroughly thrashed in this campaign. Many of our politicians have intentionally ignored this issue, thinking that healthcare, the war and taxes will have the main momentum.
Let us take a look at this massive problem that has been constantly growing for over three decades, and the pandering public servants on both sides of the political fence. It is now a sad issue with me, because Senator Hillary Clinton took the side of the Governor of New York state. It looks like Sen. Hillary Clinton has burnt her own boat, because she agreed with Governor Spitzer (NY) who demanded issuing drivers licenses to illegal aliens. With the primaries approaching and the 2008 election, she has shown to be a panderer to to the globalist, open border extremists as she married herself to “LA RAZA” a radical organization, that has a hallucinogenic dream of returning SouthWest America to a corrupt Mexico. This un-American entity is also funded by taxpayers and the corporate cartels. It is rather a shame as I would have tested the waters for her desire to promote a Universal Health Care. But as an Independant I have lost that initultive
After the 9/11 conflagration at the World Trade Center, you would think that our supposedly rational-speaking politicians, would condemn any dangerous legislation like this? We are constantly reminded that most of our multi-millionaire presidential candidates have a desire for unfettered movement of cheap, itinerant labor onto our shores. They follow the King Bush and Royal court ideology of free trade agreements that has paralyzed our own internal industries; made Communist China rich and other countries. We have become a welfare, free-loading nation for anybody who can break our soveignty laws and illegally enter America.
But citizens must be congratulated, because we THE PEOPLE have terminated up to now, sleight-of-hand illegal alien amnesty. Sen. Harry Reid and his co-conspirator Ted Kennedy found themselves in a unparalled turmoil, of the taxpayers explosion of seething anger over the ominous March Comprehensive Immigration bill. They lost and were arrogant enough several times to underhandedly slip the bills in appropriations bill. After two tries they gave up, but still tried to slip through THE DREAM ACT. Yet again, they fell short. As I speak a new farm bill came to be voted on, with another amnesty amendment as an addendum which would have allowed 3.1 million guest workers into America. The taxpayers of course would be footing the bill for sickeness and other government benefits, while the corporate farmer pays nothing. Remember that good, old time liberal Ted Kennedy promised no more amnesties, after the 1986 Simpson/ Mazzoli bill. As we go into a 30 year period of massive treasury deficits, economic turn downs and paramount loans from paramount other countries, to fight the Iraq war. We must realize that most of our trouble is caused by globalist, free trade and we cannot afford another free marketeer in the White House. Hopefully we can remove ourselves from the World Bank, and other entities associated with so-called free trade. Our agreements have never been fairly negotiated and must be brought back to the conference table again.
Sen.Harry Reid, John mcCain and many others have become a parasite on the American Taxpayer. He and many other politicians are just the proverbial tip of the iceburg. These coming primaries the citizens in Nevada, should read the “RIOT ACT, to these disloyal, unpatriotic brain-dead golems.
At last the citizens of this country have spoken about the illegal alien plague, that have had massive economic consequences on the taxpayer. The predator employers have now something to worry about, as well as all pandering politicians in the upcoming 2008 elections. Our leaders have set of a short burning fuse, when they tried to slip into law a gigantic illegal alien amnesty. A “dream Act” that would have given tuition priority of the children of citizens and legal residence. Even this week a new farm bill is in the works, with yet another AMNESTY for cheap foreign workers. But the news is already been broad casted far and wide and without doubt our open-border and free-trade, globalist politicians are going to hear about it, like seething acid in their ears. No longer waiting for Imperial Bush and his Royal court to seal the borders and ports, to strictly enact the laws of the 1986 Simpson/Mazzoli Immigration Control laws. A number of forward thinking states including Arizona, Georgia and Oklahoma have enacted rigid Immigration laws, to stop illegal employers and the welfare support of illegal aliens. While other states such as Illinois, Denver and of course Los Angeles have been pegged as Sanctuary cities and I now could lose federal funding, plus being sued by the Federal Government. Several newspapers have cited the exodus of illegal foreign nationals from Oklahoma, as a legal presidence will give reign to other states following their example. I cannot emphasis this paramount development, that shows the ordinary citizen have the power of the vote and will use it against the pro-illegal immigrant globalists in the 2008 general election. The power of THE PEOPLE cannot be intentionally played with, by mindless puppets of our leaders. The race card has no further value, because the taxpayer sees the astronomical costs extracted from them, while the pariah employer pays little or nothing for cheap labor upkeep and their extended families. The American people have had it up to their neck with the freeloaders, who are self-deporting or by “ATTRITION.”
Finally there is an upcoming law that both sides can agree on, including the majority of the American people. Of course this isn’t going to pleasing to the open-border, globalists but this time they are in the minority.
CONTACT YOUR SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN/WOMEN TO CO-SPONSER THE”SAVE ACT.”
IF YOU DON’T SEE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE ON THE BY-PARTISAN LIST, DEMAND YOUR PUBLIC SERVANT POLITICIAN TO JOIN IT?
Attrition Through Enforcement Is the True Middle-ground Solution
Rep. Shuler Introduces Bi-partisan SAVE (Secure America through Verification and Enforcement) Act
November 7, 2007: Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) introduced legislation Tuesday emphasizing the principles of Attrition Through Enforcement. The SAVE Act (H.R. 4088) will broaden and enhance border security and interior enforcement. With a number of border security Democrats and Republicans already agreeing to co-sponsor, this bipartisan effort may be Congress