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Latest Romney ad hones in on immigration
By Glen Johnson, AP Political Writer | July 31, 2007

BOSTON --With a big month in Iowa looming, Republican Mitt Romney is airing a commercial focused on one of the state's hot-button issues: immigration.

Five days before the latest GOP presidential debate, and 11 days before the state's straw poll, Romney trimmed a May television ad into a 30-second spot in which he reiterates his support for legal immigration, but opposition to illegal immigration.

"We should put in place an employment verification system," Romney tells an audience member in a scene from one of his "Ask Mitt Anything" town hall meetings. "And then, when an employer is thinking of hiring someone, the federal database immediately tells them whether they're available to be working or not. If they're not, you can't hire them."

Romney assailed the immigration compromise negotiated between President Bush and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., another presidential candidate. The former Massachusetts governor said the deal would create amnesty for illegals already in the country. Congress subsequently killed the measure.

He also pounded the issue during a mid-July visit to Iowa, criticizing GOP rival and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for making the city "a sanctuary city for illegal aliens" by failing to enforce the immigration laws on the books. Romney noted he that deputized state police to enforce immigration laws and denied driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

The theme plays well in Iowa, where the federal government has raided meat processing plants employing illegals, and where some longtime residents feel their pay is being undercut by cheaper-working immigrants.

All the GOP candidates will be in Des Moines on Aug. 5 for a debate, while Romney is making a bid to win the Aug. 11 straw poll in Ames.

Campaigning in Virginia Tuesday, Romney attributed last fall's Democratic takeover of Congress to anger over the war in Iraq.

"People were upset with the lack of progress in Iraq, and since they couldn't fire the coach they fired the team," the former Massachusetts governor told reporters after a private get-acquainted session with about 200 invited guests at a Richmond hotel.

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"We should put in place an employment verification system," Romney tells an audience member in a scene from one of his "Ask Mitt Anything" town hall meetings. "And then, when an employer is thinking of hiring someone, the federal database immediately tells them whether they're available to be working or not. If they're not, you can't hire them

Well gee, guess what senior flip flop, we already have this in place, the problem is that the law hasn't been enforced.
And senior mitt, you're not fooling anyone. We all know you're pulling your usual flip flop in support of tougher immigration laws because anyone in support of amnesty is going down in flames.
Funny how he supported boosh's proposal in 2005, and now he's against it. Same old flip flop mitt.

Well the bleeding heart politician, is flip floping like a fish just out of water, watch what he says the next time he is in a room full of Christians. These are the people you can not trust to run our country!!!