President Barack Obama’s State of The Union address helped draw a sharp contrast between his administration and the Republican parties current immigration stances. While campaigning in Florida Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich mocked Mitt Romney over his plan to require undocumented immigrants to “self deport.” Romney, also campaigning in Florida took the opportunity to attack Gingrich for engaging in divisive politics.
Obama draws contrast with GOP on immigration President Barack Obama’s State of The Union address helped draw a sharp contrast between his administration and the Republican parties current immigration stances. “President Obama drew one of his sharpest contrasts with Republicans at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address when he called for Congress to pass legislation giving illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship. The president urged lawmakers to pass comprehensive immigration reform, or, absent that, a law like the DREAM Act that gives immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children a way to earn U.S. citizenship under certain conditions.”
Gingrich mocks Romney’s ‘self-deportation’ plan for illegal immigrants While campaigning in Florida Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich mocked Mitt Romney over his plan to require undocumented immigrants to “self deport.”
“Former House speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday mocked as an “Obama-level fantasy” Mitt Romney’s plan to deal with illegal immigration by encouraging “self-deportation.” Gingrich made the comment as he began a day of outreach to Florida’s Hispanic voters with an extensive interview on Spanish-language television and a speech at Florida International University in which he called for a more a forceful U.S. role in ending communist rule in Cuba, as well as an overhaul of U.S. economic policies toward all of Latin America.”
Mitt Romney Responds to Newt Gingrich Immigration Attacks Mitt Romney, also campaigning in Florida took the opportunity to attack Gingrich for engaging in divisive politics. “In the Latino hotbed of Miami, Mitt Romney today hit back at Newt Gingrich’s claims that the former Massachusetts governor is “anti-immigrant” because of his policies on how to address the millions of undocumented immigrants in the country.“It’s very sad for a candidate to resort to that sort of epithet,” Romney told Univision’s Jorge Ramos at a Univision forum here. “It’s just inappropriate. There are differences between candidates on different issues, but we don’t attack each other with those types of terrible terms. I’m not anti-immigrant, I’m pro-immigrant. I like immigration. Immigration has been an extraordinary source of strength in this country, as I’m sure you know. Immigrants form more businesses than do domestic-born Americans. The immigrant population in this country has created great vitality in our economy as well as in our culture.”
