Mitt Romney spoke before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials on Thursday, where he laid out his immigration policy that would "replace and supersede" President Obama's recent shift on immigration.
Mitt Romney went before the National Association of Latino Elected Officials this afternoon, but still refused to take a stand on President Obama's plan to allow some illegal immigrants who were brought here as children by their parents to stay in the country.
"Some people have asked if I will let stand the president's executive action," the GOP presumptive presidential nominee said. "The answer is that I will put in place my own long-term solution that will replace and supersede the president's temporary measure."
"As president, I won’t settle for stop-gap measures," said Romney, who was greeted with polite but not overly enthusiastic response. "I will work with Republicans and Democrats to find a long-term solution."
Romney did promise to overhaul the green card system for immigrants with families and to end immigration caps for their spouses and minor children.
Polls show Latinos (and all Americans) overwhelmingly support Obama's decision to allow hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to stay in the country and work.
The stakes are high for the November election. Even a modest shift among Latino voters in battleground states like Ohio, North Carolina and Virginia, could tip the scales.
Obama will speak to the same group tomorrow at one o'clock in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
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Hey Ed,Does any body have any pictures from Romneys meeting with Hispanic groups. Dose'nt sound like many people are there. Larry
Did you hear this about willards bus tour? This is the work of Move On. org. They are "dogging" willard where ever he goes. These really gave me a laugh. I think they may be more successful than ad champaigns.
TM,
too funny!
First thing I have to say is how can they stand the stench of following the Etch-A-Sketch X-PRESS!!! And I commend them for it! Secondly I hope that MoveOn.org is TAX EXEMPT like Carl Rove's Crossroads is.
Those pine tree shaped car air fresheners, they filled the back seat with them.
Can anyone tell me what was Obama immigration plan when he ran for president in 2008
Can anyone tell me why he wanted for 3 and a half years to do anything about it
And all his new immigration policy did was give more then 800,000 illegals the ability to legally take away the already hard to find jobs from legal Americans
Obama's imigration plan has been stalled in the US House for 3 years. You need to listen to something other than fox Lies.
Maybe you need to educate your self a little better what has stalled in the senate was the dream act which wasn't Obama plan it was drafted by senator Durbin in 2006
Can anyone tell me why he wanted for 3 and a half years to do anything about it
Because creating a socialist nanny state was his main objective. Since he failed at that he's trying to give amnesty to millions of undocumented democrats. He'll fail at that too.
Where's Romney's plan he's been running since 08 and he still has nothing
you morons crack me up everytime
@2.2 Do you want to use that same reasoning to frame Romney's "lack of an economic plan" or does he get credit for the Ryan plan?
TRF-
you educate yourself-
Durbin and orrin hatch, you ignoramous.
Romney still has nothing to offer no surprise. Why does reversible Mittens expect us to believe he will do things differently if he isn't telling anyone what he'd do differently? Someone needs to update Romney's operating system to the 2012 edition after all he's still thinking Russia's our greatest geo-political foe
I've got one long term solution for Romney, stop running for office people don't like you
Romney's "long term" immigration plan: let them dressage and eat cake
TRFjr #2.2 Obama tried to pass the "dream Act" in 2010 and it nearly passed, but the GOP filibustered it so that it could not pass. Ask Guiterrez (D) about it. Finally the president knew they'd never let it pass and he called their bluff and did it himself!
Romney will never, ever, ever, ever help immigrants. His only consistent policy was self deportation. If he wins in November, immigrants need to start packing. You will have to , not GO HOME, but LEAVE YOUR HOME. He will see to that, and that comes from his own mouth. He is a man without pity and humanity. What he understands are numbers and dollar signs and decimal points. People elude him.
He took his Dressage horse as a business deduction for $77,000.00. How about that! And yet I've never seen him use it for transportation, have you? What does that say about a MULTI-MILLIONAIRE who was worth over 200 million dollars when he did that! I guess he needed the money....
PS, And now he wants us to further lower those burdensome 14% tax rates he pays!
Oh, YEAH!!..........I can't WAIT, Mitt, dear. I cannot wait to lower your taxes so you can RAISE mine!! Have to keep the millionaires and billionaires happy!
It's the "right" thing to do.
It is about the economy stupid, something barry can not run on because he is so over his head in the job. Being a community organizer and affirmative action granted education does not make you a leader.
Just another know nothing Fox Lies propaganda puppet.
President Obama has "created" more jobs in 27 months than GWB did in 8 years. GWB's accomplishments, unconstitutional patriot act, lied us into 2 conflict, unfunded. Took a surplus and turned it into a deficit/debt in less than a year. Damn, some great accomplishments.
Guess Obama's crushing favorability numbers amongst latinos must be affirmative action too...........and the right wonders why people know they're racist
Larry you have to understand it's very important for the right to not give any praise for a politician who has real accomplishments but isn't really white
Oh somebody is envious !!!You did not make it to College did you? Or if you did I can bet it was not Harvard!! Do you even know what affirmative action is? Get over it!
White Floridian
How rude.
How typical.
KKKalifornia outlawed immigrant drivers licences then began stealing and selling cars owned by immigrants after deporting them. When that wasn't enough, KKKalifornia outlawed education for the children of immigrants and started incarcerating US citizens that are born hear because they don't have enough education to make a legal living.
About half a million KKKalifornia residents got disgusted and moved back to Mexico when they realized KKKalifornia just wants to throw them all in jail.
Abandoned housing collapsed the real estate market.
Stolen cars collapsed the automotive industry.
Prison costs collapsed the KKKalifornia economy so bad that drugs were decriminalized.
It's not like those things haven't been in the news.
Pretty messed up that Tea Partiers are so delusional that they can't connect the dots.
Employers are required to advertise for 30 days and pay a $1,500 fee if no US citizens apply for a job.
Only then can an employer hire an immigrant.
That means that immigrants are already prohibited from taking jobs away from US citizens, and any claims to the contrary are pure fantasy.
What immigrants do is to stimulate the economy. To the tune of about $200 billion/year.
KKKalifornia outlawed Mexicans, so about $50 billion/year of our stimulus moved back to Mexico AND collapsed the real estate market AND collapsed the prison system AND collapsed the automotive industry.
TM, Who'd have guessed that was a white Floridian? LOL
Well come now California didn't outlaw mexicans then there'd be no California....that's a little much. Now what has happened is that the state has stopped trying to care about a budget, their finances are sooo badd they've given up at this point and that's probably wise since in there at the bottom of the sea on money issues. This is a combination of the aggressive put more people in jails and put illegals in jail not Mexico or where ever they're from and then the cut spending craze has lead to them not building anything to manage their put more people in prison policies.
I worked with lots of Latino and Hispanic people in the Army over a 20 year career. If these Latino's and Hispanics took over the majority of America tomorrow we would have nothing to fear. These Hispanics in the military were hard working middle class people who pushed education for their kids. They take good care of their families and work hard. They are an American success story to be honored and proud of not vilified by extremists. President Obama's recent immigration policy changes for the Dream children bode well for him in November.
The GOP is taking a real beating politically because the Obama administration is targeting lots of Spanish language ads in Hispanic media and newspapers. This message is being hammered home by Democrats from now until November. Democrats need to offer comprehensive immigration reform in the Democratic platform. The Hispanics are being reminded about the GOP's filibustering of the Dream Act in 2010 despite both chambers of Congress giving it a majority vote. The Dream Act should have been established law under a normal functioning democracy. Democrats need to promise that comprehensive immigration reform with green cards, work permits, and a legal pathway for citizenship for all 11 million Hispanics and their families. This is an American success story for Democrats and a nightmare for the GOP whose brand of dog food is growing stale amongst Hispanics. Republican pollsters have to be deeply concerned and know that Romney will face a tough election amongst Hispanics in Florida, Ohio, Virginia and other key states that will swing solidly Democratic in November.
If Democrats were really smart, they would start a long term program of unionization of Hispanic workers. This unionization would give union labor a shot in the arm. The Democrats need to push big infrastructure investment like bullet trains, mass transit systems, and infrastructure projects that will employ many millions of blue collar workers. By pushing for large infrastructure bills, I am talking about a $3 trillion investment over five to seven years, Democrats can lay down the political foundations for a revived union movement. Politically pushing big infrastructure bills will make our economy grow and prosper on Main Street. Big infrastructure bills like bullet trains will not only move tens of millions of commuters it will also be the rail for pushing a Medicare for all public option over the top. Universal health care will come with large investments in bullet trains.
I am not just talking about bullet trains but huge numbers of electric hybrid buses, expanded Amtrak, and commuter rail lines as well. Mass transit projects, infrastructure bills, the Hispanic vote, unionization, all need to get linked together so that universal health care/Medicare for all public option needs to be pushed by Democrats. Why not push for a very modern state of the art TGV type bullet train system down the northeast corridor replacing the aging Acela? Revitalized bus service and Amtrak service are also important. Amtrak trains that I road on recently across the country were packed full with passengers. People who say rail is dead are wrong. Look at European bullet trains like the Eurostar, TGV, or German ICE bullet trains/commuter rail systems. When oil goes to $200 per barrel Americans will see the wisdom of a European bullet train system. When you can ride the train at 200 MPH, $8 to $10 per gallon fuel does not matter very much to you. These days will come sooner than anyone can imagine. The BRIC countries and Asian-Pacific Rim countries will be producing 200 million more vehicles in coming years at a time of peak world oil production unable to maintain an 85 million per barrel level of oil production. I think once $200 per barrel oil happens we could imagine a world where much of our interstate highway system is torn up and French TGV bullet trains built on top of it because no one can afford to drive or fly anywhere. Conservatives would fill their pants in such a world but its coming in a country called America.
Wondering why mitt can't reveal ANYTHING?
Because his plan is to make the rich richer, ignore the middle class and the poor, cut taxes for the rich, end social security and medicare, end welfare and unemployment insurance, remove all regulation on polluting companies and let them destroy the environment, poison the water and air, contaminate the food with genetically altered crops, move all corporations to China and Mexico, and eliminate minimum wage so they can reduce the standard of living for everybody so it resembles China.
If he campaigns on that, even the deluded Republicans won't vote for him.
Sociopaths only let you know what they are doing after the find the soft spot in your back so that it is easier to put the knife in.
Now Romney is jumping on the Repub governors for saying their state economies are getting better. How am I going to be able to keep saying it's worse under Obama if you guys keep saying it's getting better?? Ha! He might as well just concede now. He doesn't stand a snowball's chance in you know where!
Romney has to run against the Republicans now.
TM, Because if Mitt revealed anything, his Draconian policies would send everybody but a handful of t-party extremists seeking political asylum in Canada.
Or become Democrats. LOL
He sure doesn't want to reveal his immigration policies to the Latino community!
His policy, simplified, is "Start packing."
He has no humanity and no pity. I think his heart is a big dollar sign.
That's because he has no cents.
LOL!
Just how does this guy get out of bed? I know he has never made the decision to take a dump!
He has servants that lift him out of it.
Chris, My favourite latest "Romneyism" is, he told Scott Walker to stop saying how good the economy was in WI, as it helped Obama.
All states need to look like failures, he said. (In fact, many are way under the 8% unemployment rate! The economy is moving right along.)
Isn't it sad and pathetic that his success depends on America's FAILURE?
Sadder still, he hopes for that. How low can a man stoop as to want to win by watching his country fail????
I think that's been true of the Republican party for a long time.
You're on fire tonight Chris! Ha! Ha!
Don't forget both Governors in Michigan and Ohio are saying that the come back of industrial jobs has boosted their states employment due to Obama's bailing out of the Auto industry, remembers Mittens said let them go bankrupt because who needed the Auto industry. Poor republicans stack the deck and still lose.
He's the opposite of Raygun! Raygun tried to remember and was called the Great Communicator. Willard is the Great Non-Communicator and if he's asked a question just forget it!
XXX all I remember Reagan ever saying was tax incentives, welfare queens, things are better and there they go again when news told the truth that Reagans things weren't getting better.
Please go to Youtube and check out the French TGV bullet train video where a land speed record was set. Type in "French TGV bullet train world speed record in 2007" or something similar and you will get several different videos to look at. If you watch a few of these videos notice that the train is traveling as fast as a commuter jet. Leaders don't like to talk about a $200 per barrel of oil world but we can do it here. Iran, Israel, and a ballistic missile, nuclear, and chemical warhead arms race amongst many of the Middle Eastern countries could make regional war and huge disruptions of oil supplies very likely in our lifetimes.
Think of this as an intellectual exercise of imagination. Imagine a world where fuel shop up to $200 per barrel and stayed there. Fuel prices were $10 per gallon or higher and will never ever go down again in your lifetime or your children's lifetime. Most of American commerce would come to a halt including airline travel. Our national economy and food supplies all rely on truck travel would be threatened. What would a future President do about this? Simple he or she would have to declare a state of national emergency with extraordinary powers that would make the executive branch the decision maker for America.
What would the President do after declaring a state of emergency? The Chinese have a saying that "crisis and opportunity" go together. The President would immediately order fuel rationing for the military, farmers, truckers and airline travel would be carefully regulated again. We could feasibly in a few years adapt to our food being shipped again by rail so truckers would become short haul people hauling from rail head to town center and back again in electric hybrid trucks or all electric trucks. We would all move to British row houses next to where we worked. Driving would only be done when necessary in short commuter electric cars or cars that got 70 to 80 MPG.
Here is the main idea I want to talk about: If fuel were permanently at $10 per gallon we would very rapidly start closing off our interstate highway system and building TGV bullet trains on the highway itself. Imagine how quickly this could take place during a state of national emergency. The President could authorize the Federal Reserve to print money in unlimited sums to build a national network of bullet trains. Congress wouldn't complain much because Congress likes being led by a strong leader during crisis and would approve his or her program. The construction of bullet trains on the closed off interstate highway system could take place very rapidly. The Army Corps of Engineers could come up with ruthlessly standardized plans making the mass production of all components of a national bullet train system in place. Crews could start working seven days per week, three shifts 365 days per year until the job of building a bullet train network of 40,000 plus miles of bullet train track network quickly. We would probably not want to haul passengers on the freight lines in most places because we would keep the bullet train system and the freight train system separate. Besides truck travel would become greatly replaced by freight trains that would make 1930's type local stops delivering all goods to towns that now use fuel guzzling trucks. I also see the total electrification of our freight rail system because electricity is more efficient.
Conservatives will scoff at this sort of thing but our history has many examples of America throwing up its old way of life and making unprecedented adjustments under emergency government powers. WW I and WW II come to mind but there also was much of this massive mobilization in a partnership between big government and big businesses during the Cold War, the Space Program, the Manhattan Project, and during the Civil war in the 19th century when railroads and the Army literally become nearly one and the same resulting in the transcontinental railroad being completed in 1869. So the interstate highway system is perfect for a French TGV bullet train network because the federal government already owns the land. This land ownership is a major reason why we would do it. The interstate system is already blocked off and bullet trains could be rapidly built on our entire interstate system from east to west and north to south. Electricity could be produced by nuclear plants called fast neutron breeder reactors that use old nuclear waste for fuel or we could use coal gasification in IGCC coal plants that can also burn biomass fuels. Natural gas electrical plants with combined cycle applications can also burn synthetic gas made from coal gasification.
Remember, that $10 per gallon fuel is a brave new world but one that might happen sooner than anyone dares to think. At $10 per gallon of fuel no one will be going down the Interstate ever again anyway making the Interstate highway system virtually obsolete. Iran and Israel are locked into a ballistic missile arms race that threatens the stability of the entire Middle East. Iran getting a nuclear weapon will almost immediately cause Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and all other countries in the region to build their own ballistic missiles, nuclear warheads, and chemical warheads for all the other non-nuclear states who could not afford nuclear programs then chemical ones would do. We are facing such an environment right now in the Middle East. If there is another major regional war in the Middle East the price of a barrel of oil will easily go past $200 per barrel. French TGV bullet trains on the interstate highway system will be just the solution for such a problem. All we have to do is watch the ballistic missiles light up the Middle Eastern sky one day and America will be living in a brave new post oil world.
If I have anything to say about it after this election Willard Romney can get to the back of the line if he wants to be president!
Willard is going to magically come up with the "answers"but he won't pull them out of a hat like most magicians. So we are all waiting for Ann to unzip him and pull them out of his magic underpants! And then we will all know the truth he show us he's on the short end of the stick! We already know about Obama because of what Biden said about his BIG STICK!
rummy is an embarrassment incapable of giving an actual answer to any question because he doesn't have one--don't want to offend anyone. he cannot answer any question honestly and expects us to trust his unknown plan. i am sick of his arrogance, his sidestepping of any question, his continual etcha-sketch comments. rummy had no leadership qualities that I have seen--if he cannot stand up to the likes of trump or limbaugh what would he do on the world stage (frightening thought)
Mitts is afraid to tell the truth about his draconian plans to execute his immigration of the latinos which is scary.
eduardo, Yeah, surprisingly, so many Latinos don't want to pack up and leave their homes here in America! What a surprise to the self-deportating Romney policy!
Gee, I wonder why Romney's numbers are so low amongst Latinos???
He is one scary ...it is hard to say....person. He seems so un-personlike! LOL
I hope and pray that the Latino community BURY this guy!
The electron is a zero-dimensional object, and its very zerolike nature ensures that scientists don't even know the electron's mass or charge.
OK.
Someone has been smoking magic underpants.
hmm...wait I see now Romney is like an electron since it has no significant mass or in this case solutions and just like electrons we can't know where or rather what Mitt would really do at any specific moment.....
but no really I'm pretty sure we know the charge of the electron and that it is negative...unless that's been disproven which if that had happened I think we'd know since it would be earth shattering in implication....now we don't know where an electron will be at any exact moment in time because it "is too fast" you might say....
Nerding out aside, I'm not sure how partical physics factors into this electron.....???....
Election...factors into this election....yeah that was what I meant
:)I hope the president uses some of my speech suggestion tomorrow when he addresses the “National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials.”
Suggested Intro:
Greetings…..
I am proud to be here today, addressing people who share my love and passion for America.
I want you to know that my Executive Order a few days ago is just the beginning! (Applause line)
Now, Mr………, I mean Governor Romney would like you to believe that my actions were simply a political move made in the eleventh hour. What he doesn’t want you to know, is that when I tried to get the DREAM ACT passed in 2010 a Republican filibuster said… “uh…Nope!!!” Even though we got passed congress and received 55 Senate Votes the Republicans said, “We will defeat you by any means necessary!!!”
Brandon, # 16 Indeed, I hope so, too! It happens to be a fact. In spite of what the toxic right wing media keep saying. Great post.
Romney the man of all faces is now speaking out of both ends of his mouth to Latinos when before that one end was saying let them self deportation the next time he's saying when you graduate I will put a Classification on your card Just what everyone wants to hear and if he cares about your vote so much then why is his party making it so hard for you to vote in every republicans governor state and why now when he could have gave a @!$%# before when he was trying to act like mister big man did he answer that yet . how low do you think Republicans will go for your vote .
They're doing the limbo for it.
Romney needs to stop playing the 1940 Dewey Republican Presidential Nomination you don't look young so that would'nt help you you are unexperienced and you avoided military and foreign policy and you speak in platudes trying to transcend politics. speech after speech is filled with empty statements of the Obvious , such as the famous quote [ You Know that your future is still ahead of you . ] and in 1944 they had a do-nothing Congress to . Dewey was nominated for President twice and lose both times . so why don't you just be yourself see where that gets you may be someone will feel sorry for you .
Nope.
What Latino in his or her right mind would vote for Willard?? dumb Republicans...
Even when the president missed a step ...made him look GOOD!!!
If Mitt Romney earlier this year faced an uphill battle with Latinos, the nation’s fastest-growing voting bloc, that hill just turned into a huge MOUNTAIN .
It's very apparent to me, that Mr. Romney and many republicans do not believe that they need the Latino vote or he would have publicly announced his plan. Which leaves me wondering...why?
Fast and Furious, huh? That WAS instituted by Bush/Cheney, right? Hey, what happened with all those Mexican Special Drug Agents who were armed and financed by George W. and then started working for the Drug Trafficers?
YES! go MITT!!!!
VOTE NObama 2012!!!!!
Mitt has serious problems with Hispanics and independent women. The GOP has declared war on women pushing for antiabortion bills, anti-birth control and family planning bills, and are generally belligerent to women's groups like Planned Parenthood. Hundreds of bills have been enacted at the state level that seek to reduce or eliminate family planning and birth control funding. Many independent women are furious at the GOP for pushing "personhood" amendments and anti-birth control and family planning agendas. I think that the GOP just does not get how angry these independent women voters are at them. GOP Governors in key states like Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania have made women furious by their snobbish remarks about women and birth control. The GOP will pay an awful price at the polls for their sins.
The Dream Act was filibustered by the Senate by the GOP in 2010 despite receiving majorities in both chambers of Congress. So Mitt has a long way to go because without strong support by independent women and Hispanic voters Mitt will lose the election. There are not enough old angry white people in the Tea Party to seal the deal for the GOP to get to 270 electoral votes. If I were a Republican I would be thinking about 2016 instead because Mitt won't make it. President Obama will also beat Mitt in the debates because Romney is a mediocre debater. Sure unemployment is a problem but the GOP House refused to pass President Obama's American Jobs Act so the GOP needs to look in the mirror when it comes to unemployment in America.