Saturday, September 3, 2011

Mitt Romney highlights his differences with Perry over immigration policy

Mitt Romney never uttered Rick Perry’s name when making his point. He didn’t have to.

Romney used a speech to a Florida gathering of Hispanic Republicans on Friday morning to draw a new contrast with his chief rival for the GOP presidential nomination over the politically toxic issue of immigration.

“Our country must do a better job of securing its borders, and as president, I will,” Romney told the Republican National Hispanic Assembly in Tampa, according to his prepared remarks. “That means completing construction of a high-tech fence, and investing in adequate manpower and resources.”

Romney, a former governor of Massachusetts, added: “We must stop providing the incentives that promote illegal immigration. As governor, I vetoed legislation that would have provided in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants, and I strengthened the authority our state troopers had to enforce existing immigration laws.”

Perry opposes completing the fence between the United States and Mexico — he once called it “idiocy” — and instead supports fencing the border at cities and crossings while using high-tech surveillance elsewhere.

And as governor of Texas, Perry signed into law a bill similar to the one Romney vetoed, providing in-state tuition to students who had lived in Texas for three years and graduated from Texan high schools regardless of their citizenship status.
The full story is HERE.

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