FredHayek wrote: It appears Mitt wouldn't repeal Obama's decision to help young, illegal, immigrants avoid deportation.
Looks like Romney is moving to the center, you have to know the anti-illegal population of America won't like this at all.
That wasn't my take on what he said at all Fred. What I heard him say was that when he was elected wouldn't cancel any of the visas that were issued under the previous administration. He might not continue to issue them as was done under the previous administration, but he wouldn't go back after the fact and take away something away that someone had already purchased. That would be fundamentally as illegitimate as the act of issuing them in the first place has been.
“The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid,” Mr. Romney said in Denver. “I’m not going to take something that they’ve purchased,” adding, “Before those visas have expired, we will have the full immigration reform plan that I’ve proposed.”
Sounds like great news! But what visa is he talking about? The policy does not involve visas. It is a presidential directive to the Department of Homeland Security to temporarily suspend, on a case-by-case basis, the deportations of people who meet certain criteria: young immigrants with clean records who were brought to the United States illegally as children.
The Times’s national immigration reporter, Julia Preston, spoke to an immigration lawyer, Margaret Stock. “It is disturbing that he does not know the difference between a visa and deferred action,” Ms. Stock said of Mr. Romney. “Nobody got a visa through this program. That would have required Congressional action.”
As for his “full immigration reform plan,” Mr. Romney, true to form, did not say what that was, or how he was going to get it passed.
