Mitt Romney: You Can’t Tell If Someone With An Accent Is Here Legally Or Not
Speaking at meet and greet in Meredith, NH in December of 2007 on E-Verify.
“The first priority, get the fence built. At the same time, have an employment verification system so that we know who’s here legally and who’s not here legally. I have personal experience with this. You don’t know who’s here illegally. You don’t have a way of telling, if someone comes and they speak with an accent do you say, well, are you here legally or illegally? And they tell you, well, how do you know.And so I want an employment verification system with a card, where it indicates that they’re here illegally, that they’re here legally, what their work status is so that you can hire them. If they’re not here legally you know you don’t hire them. And we need to have that kind of system or we’re not going to know who’s here illegally and not. So those are the first two things. And number three, for those that are here illegally today, tell them to get in line with everybody else who wants to come here. No special pathway, no special deal by virtue of having come here illegally.”
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maxwelldog a year agoboy oh boy…
Is Romney ever saying the wrong stuff.
I expect that he’ll be wanting us to all either go back to school to learn enunciation…
OR…
We all have to go to speech therapists to learn how to speak Michiganese, Utahese, or New England Yankee (Just pawt the dawg carriah on top of the cah, pulease) What kind of moron does it take to call out every potsmoker, everyone that has cancer and would like some marijuana cure, every gay, lesbian, transexual person, and now everyone with any accent at all and dehumanize them? Oh…wait a minute, Is Romney pulling a Palin?
(“pulling a Palin” according to Maxwelldog’s dictionary is: Pretending to run, fill the chest with big bucks, don’t spend it all, and lose on purpose, thus winning whatever money is left over. Herman Cain pulled a Palin, already. -
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roll85 a year agoCan someone tell me what is so wrong with what he said? I think what he’s saying is right on aside from the fence. There are many legal immigrants. Saying you can’t know who is here legally and who is not by their accent is true. And we have legal immigration systems for a reason. If you want people to be in the country so badly, lobby your government to create more or easier pathways for that. And lukeb3, let’s not get into the ‘violent’ illegal immigrant myth, because we all know it’s not true :)
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