Opinions of Presidential Candidates
Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, December 11, 2015 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler
Presidential candidates have publicized their positions on illegal aliens and refugees. Democrat Hillary Clinton, says her immigration plans would go even farther than proposals by Obama, who considers refugees to be “New Americans,” although their cultures are totally incompatible with United States culture.
Democrat candidate Bernie Sanders has a more sensible approach. He denounced “a completely open border, so that anyone can come into the U.S.” because it would substantially lower wages.
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said illegal aliens are guilty only of “an act of love,” and he would give them permanent “legal status combined with” securing the border.
Senator Marco Rubio and Ohio Governor John Kasich have different ideas. Kasich said the 12 million illegals already here should be “legalized once we find out who they are.” But, Rubio chose to speak Spanish on the Spanish-language network, to say Obama’s executive amnesty “can’t be terminated because there are already people benefiting from it.”
In April, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said immigration should be “based on making our No. 1 priority to protect American workers and their wages.” Donald Trump’s position paper includes a section called “Put American Workers First,” that says the impact of foreign workers “makes it difficult for Americans – including immigrants themselves – to earn a middle class wage.”
A Nevada poll has Trump winning the Hispanic vote among Republicans, despite his statement that the millions who settled here illegally since the last amnesty “have to go. We either have a country, or we don’t have a country. A nation without borders is not a nation. A nation without laws is not a nation. A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.”
Many illegal aliens that should be deported for previous crimes are still in this country. During July, illegal alien Mexicans murdered Kate Steinle in San Francisco; Mexican illegal aliens raped and murdered Marilyn Pharis in her California home; Mexican illegals attempted rape of a 14-year-old girl and murder of Peggy Kostelnik in Ohio; and illegals murdered Jason and Tana Shane of Montana’s Crow Nation. If those illegals had been deported, their crimes would not have happened.
Trump says, “America will only be great as long as America remains a nation of laws and lives according to the Constitution. No one is above the law.” For Georgia Insight I’m Sue Ella Deadwyler, your Capitol correspondent.