Thread: Richardson: Better ways to deal with immigration

Richardson: Better ways to deal with immigration

By KEN BLACK

July 20, 2007

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday that while he favors strong border control, he is against building a wall along America’s southern line.

“If you built a 10-foot wall you know what you are going to get? A lot of 11-foot ladders,â€

another open boarders fool

This guy is a disaster (but, then again-he's a Democrat) as evidenced by comments like this

Richardson said that the McCain/Kennedy immigration reform bill was the right thing to do.

he isn't just a fool he's an idiot!! just like obama & hillary... & mccain. guiliane(sp) and the list goes on. it is getting very scary in this country.

Why would the good people from NM ever vote for Richardson as governor? He was raised in mexico by a Mexican mother. Of course is pro open borders. His loyalty lies with Mexico not America. Since the Clintons selected him, we all know where Hillary's loyalty lie and it is with the American People. I realize that Americans are mad about the war but they should be more concerned about Bush, the RINOs, and the democrats giving the country away. Democrats were once for the american people but now they are for more a global world than many Republicans.

He lives in LA,LA Land the damn fool!! They must be giving out elected officials a stupid drink up there in DC, Or on the presidential campaign trail.


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Richardson: Increase legal immigration
By JASON CLAYWORTH
REGISTER STAFF WRITER


July 20, 2007

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Thursday that the United States should increase legal immigration, a position that he acknowledges would likely cost him votes as he seeks the Democratic nomination for president.

"I think we also need to raise the legal immigration numbers for those workers that we need," Richardson said in Des Moines while outlining his immigration policy.

Richardson also criticized an idea to build a 10-foot wall along the Mexican border, which he said would be defeated by 11-foot ladders.

He outlined an idea that would allow an estimated 12 million immigrants who are in the country illegally to gain a citizenship after 12 years, requiring them to learn English and uphold good citizenship standards. He also is an advocate of tighter border security and enforcing penalties for businesses that knowingly hire immigrants who are in the country illegally.

About 100 people attended Richardson's event, held at the Ruan Center's Des Moines Embassy Club and sponsored by the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy as well as the Greater Des Moines Committee on Foreign Relations.

Campaign aides said the address was Richardson's most comprehensive to date on foreign policy.

The speech primarily expanded on an idea Richardson has called "new realism."

"This is a path of American leadership, and I believe an axis of reason rather than an axis of evil," he said.

Richardson also hammered on President Bush's handling of the Iraq war, saying he would appoint a "full-time, high-level envoy" that would work to "bridge the divide the Bush administration's failed policies have helped to create."

Richardson's mother is Mexican. Born in California, he grew up in Mexico City before moving to New England, where he attended high school and college. He is a former United Nations ambassador.

Council Bluffs resident Laura Castro de Cortes, who was born in Texas, drove to Des Moines to hear Richardson speak.

"I was very impressed," she said of Richardson. "I read his background and I thought, 'It would be nice to have a president who actually has foreign policy as a background.' "

Richardson also made campaign stops Thursday in Newton, Tama and Marshalltown. He reached out to Newton residents who lost their jobs because of the Maytag plant closure.

As president, Richardson said, he would advocate incentives for businesses to stay in the United States and would work to end tax cuts that companies get by locating overseas.

Newton resident Richard Means, a registered Republican, attended the Newton event and said he is considering voting for Richardson.

"I like the immigration thing," Means said. "He's had experience with it so he knows what he's doing. As far as I can see, there's nobody more qualified than what he is."

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