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    Rick Santorum on Immigration

    Rick Santorum on Immigration

    Republican Jr Senator (PA)


    http://www.ontheissues.org/Internati...mmigration.htm



    Voted YES on building a fence along the Mexican border.

    Within 18 months, achieves operational control over U.S. land and maritime borders, including:
    1. systematic border surveillance through more effective use of personnel and technology; and
    2. physical infrastructure enhancements to prevent unlawful border entry
    Defines "operational control" as the prevention of all unlawful U.S. entries, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, narcotics, and other contraband.

    Proponents support voting YES because:
    It is obvious there is no more defining issue in our Nation today than stopping illegal immigration. The most basic obligation of any government is to secure the Nation's borders. One issue in which there appears to be a consensus between the Senate and the House is on the issue of building a secure fence. So rather than wait until comprehensive legislation is enacted, we should move forward on targeted legislation which is effective and meaningful. The legislation today provides over 700 miles of Within 18 months, achieves operational control over U.S. land and maritime borders, including:
    1. systematic border surveillance through more effective use of personnel and technology; and
    2. physical infrastructure enhancements to prevent unlawful border entry
    Defines "operational control" as the prevention of all unlawful U.S. entries, including entries by terrorists, other unlawful aliens, narcotics, and other contraband.

    Proponents support voting YES because:
    It is obvious there is no more defining issue in our Nation today than stopping illegal immigration. The most basic obligation of any government is to secure the Nation's borders. One issue in which there appears to be a consensus between the Senate and the House is on the issue of building a secure fence. So rather than wait until comprehensive legislation is enacted, we should move forward on targeted legislation which is effective and meaningful. The legislation today provides over 700 miles of Reference: Secure Fence Act; Bill H R 6061 ; vote number 2006-262 on Sep 29, 2006
    Voted NO on establishing a Guest Worker program.
    • Voting YES establishes a guest worker program with a path to citizenship for illegal aliens who have worked in the US for 5 years. The bill:
    • Increases border security and enforcement
    • Makes it unlawful to knowingly hire, recruit, or refer for a fee an unauthorized alien.
    • Establishes a temporary guest worker program (H-2C visa) with a three-year admission and one additional three-year extension; and issuance of H-4 nonimmigrant visas for accompanying or following spouse and children;
    • Provides permanent resident status adjustment for a qualifying illegal alien, and family, for aliens who have been in the US and employed for five years.

    • Proponents of the bill say:
    • Our immigration system is broken and needs to be repaired. This bill is a strong step in the right direction. We need to protect our borders and look out for American workers, and we also need a responsible way to meet the need for temporary workers, particularly in the agricultural area, where they represent about 70 percent of the U.S. agricultural workforce, with a path to earned citizenship for hard-working, law abiding temporary workers. This bill, the product of bipartisan compromise, takes a commonsense approach to all of these issues.

    • Opponents of the bill say:
    • Our country has been built by immigrants. But the reason we have had quotas for immigration is the world has progressed in different parts of this globe at a very different rate. In some countries, the economies have lagged far behind.
    • There are jobs available in this country with rates of pay that are far in excess of those of Third World countries. We have on our southern border people who aspire to come to this country. In order to protect our way of life and our standard of living and to protect jobs, we have quotas.
    Reference: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act; Bill S. 2611 ; vote number 2006-157 on May 25, 2006
    Voted NO on allowing illegal aliens to participate in Social Security.

    Voting YEA would table (kill) the proposed amendment to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving Social Security benefits. Voting NAY supports that prohibition, while voting YEA supports immigrants participating in Social Security. Text of amendment:
    To reduce document fraud, prevent identity theft, and preserve the integrity of the Social Security system, by ensuring that persons who receive an adjustment of status under this bill are not able to receive Social Security benefits as a result of unlawful activity.
    • Proponents of the amendment say to vote NAY because:
    • The Immigration Reform bill would allow people to qualify for social security based on work they did while they were illegally present in the US and illegally working in the US. People who broke the law to come here and broke the law to work here can benefit from their conduct to collect social security.
    • In some cases, illegal immigrants may have stolen an American citizen's identity. They may have stolen an American's social security number to fraudulently work. This amendment corrects this problem.

    • Opponents of the amendment say to vote YEA because:
    • Americans understand that for years there are undocumented workers who have tried to follow our laws and be good neighbors and good citizens, and have paid into the Social Security Trust Fund.
    • Once that person regularizes his or her status, and as they proceed down the path to earned citizenship, they should have the benefit after having followed the law and made those contributions. That is fairness.
    • We should not steal their funds or empty their Social Security accounts. That is not fair. It does not reward their hard work or their financial contributions.
    • The amendment proposes to change existing law to prohibit an individual from gaining the benefit of any contributions made while the individual was in an undocumented status. I oppose this amendment and believe it is wrong.
    Reference: Preclusion of Social Security Credits; Bill S.Amdt.3985 to S.2611 ; vote number 2006-130 on May 18, 2006
    Voted NO on giving Guest Workers a path to citizenship.

    This amendment to the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act would prohibit H-2C nonimmigrants ("Guest Workers") from adjusting to lawful permanent resident status. Voting YEA on the motion to table (which would kill the amendment) indicates supporting a path to citizenship for guest workers. Voting NAY on the motion indicates opposing any path to citizenship. The amendment says:
    Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, an alien having nonimmigrant status is ineligible for and may not apply for adjustment of status.''
    • Proponents of the amendment say to vote NAY because:
    • The Immigration Reform Act purports to create two different paths to citizenship for those, first of all, who are in the country living outside of the law in an undocumented status, and secondly, for those who are not yet present in the country but who want to come here at some future date to work.
    • We have given the somewhat misleading name of ''guest worker'' to the so-called future flow. A guest is not ordinarily defined as someone who moves in with you and never leaves.
    • These so-called guest workers could work here up to 6 years, after which they then apply for a green card. They then get on the path to American citizenship 5 years later.
    • It is important for us to debate this issue honestly. The amendment simply makes the point that a guest worker ought to be temporary.

    • Opponents of the amendment say to vote YEA because:
    • If this amendment should pass, that whole compromise is destroyed because a fundamental part of that compromise was that those who have been here for 2 to 5 years would be eligible for green card status and citizenship. This amendment would destroy that compromise.
    • We have examples today in Europe of having people living in your country with no hope to ever be a part of that society. No hope, no opportunity, no future, but we will let you work.

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    Thanks for posting this airdale.

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    He's improved a bit-I give him credit for taking on the UCCB-but he's still not stellar on this issue.

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    Rick Santorum: Undocumented Immigrants Are All Law-Breakers
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/1...n_1136398.html





    GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, took a hard line on unauthorized immigration during a Wednesday campaign stop in Spencer, Iowa, saying undocumented immigrants are breaking the law with "everything" they do.
    "You can't be here for 20 years and commit only one illegal act ... because everything you're doing while you're here is against the law," Santorum said, according to the Spencer Daily Reporter. "I understand Congressman Gingrich saying, 'Well, you know, people have been here and they've been good citizens and paying taxes.' Yeah, under somebody else's Social Security number because you stole it."
    Santorum's line is based on a common refrain of those who oppose legalization for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States: "Illegal" immigrants have committed a crime simply by being in the country. In fact, even though crossing the border unauthorized is a criminal violation, living in the United States without documents is a civil violation.
    The use of false Social Security numbers by undocumented workers is also more complicated than Santorum implies. Using another person's Social Security Number is likewise not necessarily criminal identity theft, according to a 2009 decision by the Supreme Court. In Flores-Figueroa v. United States, the court ruled that prosecutors must prove that someone knowingly used another person's Social Security number -- not simply that they used it -- in order to prove criminal identity theft.
    In other words, undocumented immigrants may not be guilty of a crime. At the same time, most undocumented workers -- as many as three-quarters, according to the Social Security Administration -- are paying into Social Security through withholding by their employers, even though they will likely never benefit from the system. An estimated $9 billion per year in Social Security taxes are taken from undocumented workers each year, according to an Associated Press report.

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    Senator Santorum has been a consistent supporter of US immigration laws. He opposes benefits for illegal aliens, comprehensive immigration reform, and supports a border fence and making english the national language. However, he has hinted at providing some method of "dealing with" those already in the US.In a losing 2006 re-election campaign, Senator Santorum promoted his support of border security and touted his opponent's views as amnesty. Senator Santorum opposed the 2006 attempt to achieve comprehensive immigration reform and cited that position often in the election cycle. Senator Santorum also cited his opposition to plans to grant social security and other benefits to illegal aliens who have lived in the US throughout the election.In the 2012 Presidential election, Senator Santorum has expressed support for a border fence, and english as the national language. He was also critical of discussion hinting at granting amnesty to illegal aliens in exchange for border security in the future. However, when directly asked what he would do with the illegal aliens already in the US, Senator Santorum stated that we would have to "deal with" those people seperately.

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    Iowa’s Surprise: Where Rick Santorum Stands on Latino Issues

    Published January 04, 2012
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    Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum surprised many during last night’s Iowa Caucus, garnering 24.5 percent or 30,007 votes and coming in a scant 8 votes behind front-runner Mitt Romney, who took in 24.6 percent or 30,015 votes. A relative outsider only a few days ago, the social conservative politician is now one of the leaders in the GOP presidential race. Santorum is known mainly for his support of family values, his pro-life stance and his opposition to gay marriage, but his record on immigration and other factors of importance to the Latino vote are less well publicized. Fox News Latino has compiled a list of some of issues key to the Hispanic vote and where Santorum stands.
    Immigration
    Santorum’s immigration policy falls in line with the general, hard-line stance held by most of the GOP hopefuls on the issue.
    The son of Italian immigrants, he strongly opposes amnesty for undocumented immigrants, believes building more fencing along the border is an important part of the immigration issue, and also supports making English the official national language.
    Santorum voted against establishing a Guest Worker Program with a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants in 2006, and is also strongly against in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants. He made this clear in the September Fox News – Google Debate in which he attacked Texas Gov. Rick Perry for allowing undocumented immigrants in Texas the right to in-state tuition costs at state schools.
    “What Gov. Perry's done is he provided in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. Maybe that was an attempt to attract the illegal vote--I mean, the Latino voters. But you attract Latino voters by talking about the importance of immigration,” Santorum said.
    Border Security:
    Santorum is a strong supporter of a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border in the hopes that it will stem the tide of undocumented immigrants entering the country. “What I would say is that first, we build the fence. Number two, we enforce the law, and that is that we don't allow people who are in this country to work here illegally,” Santorum said during an interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News Channel’s “On The Record. “And when we do find people here illegally, and we go through the process of deportation.”
    In recent debates Santorum has gone after Texas Gov. Rick Perry for being “soft on immigration” and opposed Perry’s resistance to a border fence. “What we have is a problem of an unsecure border,” Sanotrum said during the TEA Part debate.“Unlike Governor Perry, I believe we need to build more fence…I believe that we need to secure the border using technology and more personnel. And until we build that border, we should neither have storm troopers come in and throw people out of the country nor should we provide amnesty.”
    Family Values
    Rick Santorum is above all else a Social Conservative. Perhaps, there is no better way of describing the appeal and constituency of the 53-year-old politician.
    In a nutshell: “his vision for America is to restore America's greatness through the promotion of faith, family and freedom,” according to his website.
    Santorum, a Catholic, is strongly pro-life, opposes gay marriage, wants to reinstate "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in the military, and believes a two-parent home is the key to a thriving economy. The promotion of these so-called family values is the cornerstone of his campaign, and he has already made it clear it’s a topic he is willing to go toe-to-toe with against President Barack Obama.
    “The Obama administration has a set of values,” Santorum said recently to a crowd of a few hundred students and parents at a conservative Christian school in Iowa. “I love it when the left and when the president say, ‘Don’t try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.’ They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.”
    The father of seven children, Santorum, believes his stance on family values makes him the so called authentic conservative. He spells out his political vision in his book, "It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good."
    Education
    Education has been a touchy issue for Santorum. The former Pennsylvania Senator is best known for introducing in 2001 the so-called “Santorum Ammendment” to the No Child Left Behind Act, which promotes the teaching of intelligent design along alongside scientific theories of evolution in schools.
    Santorum has criticized what he calls government “meddling” in education and home schools his seven children. During a recent Fox News/Google debate, Santorum said that it was the parents responsibility to educate their children. “The government has convinced parents that at some point it's no longer their responsibility. And in fact, they force them, in many respects, to turn their children over to the public education system and wrest control from them and block them out of participation of that,” Santorum said. “That has to change or education will not improve in this country.”
    http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/pol...o-issues/print

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    Rick Santorum on Immigration

    Former Pennsylvania senator says undocumented immigrants are criminals

    By Dan Moffett, About.com Guide
    Daily Reporter,
    “because everything you’re doing while you’re here is against the law.”

    Santorum’s comment was an attack on Republican frontrunner Newt Gingrich who has supported some type of legal status for undocumented immigrants who have been in a country for decades and contributed to their communities.
    Santorum believes that all undocumented immigrants are criminals, though U.S. law considers people found in the country without proper documentation to be guilty of civil violations, not criminal felonies. He believes Gingrich’s position amounts to amnesty and that it will encourage more immigrants to come to the United States illegally.
    “The principal thing we need to accomplish is securing the border,” he said repeatedly during campaign stops.
    “I do believe what Newt (Gingrich) is suggesting is amnesty,” Santorum says.
    Just Another 'Romneyism'
    He also has attacked rival Mitt Romney for trying to have it both ways on immigration policy. He called it “classic Romneyism” that the former Massachusetts governor favors a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants but, according to Santorum, defines that as “going to their home country, applying for citizenship or permanent residency just like everybody else, and getting back in line.”
    Santorum says people without documents should not be able to hold jobs, and “if we enforce the law, more people will leave.”
    The former senator said often during the campaign that he won’t answer questions about what the government should do about the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the country until the border is secured.
    “We can have the discussion (afterwards about) how long they’ve been here, whether they had other types of records,” he said during the Republican debate in September at the Reagan Library. “But to have that discussion right now and pull the same trick that was pulled in 1986 (when) we said, well, we’ll promise to do this if you do that — no more. We are going to secure the border first, and that’s the most important, then we’ll have the discussion afterwards.”
    The mention of 1986 refers to when Congress passed a massive immigration reform bill, that President Reagan signed, giving amnesty to millions of immigrants.
    Santorum supports building a fence along the U.S.-Mexico border and enhancing it with high-tech surveillance systems. He opposes comprehensive reform legislation that includes guest worker programs with paths to citizenship or legal status.
    However, Santorum supports increasing the visa allotments for skilled and highly educated immigrants. He believes they would help the U.S. economy.
    Opposes DREAM Act for Students
    He differs with Republican rival Rick Perry, the Texas governor, over the DREAM Act. He would not allow the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state college tuition rates. At the Tea Party debate in Tampa in September, Santorum accused Perry of trying to curry favor with Latino voters by signing a version of the DREAM Act into law. Santorum thinks it’s a misuse of taxpayer dollars to give these tuition breaks.
    “Why are we subsidizing them?” he asked during a debate in Orlando. “Not that they can’t go. They can go. They just have to borrow money, find other sources to be able to go. Why should they be given preferential treatment as an illegal in this country?”
    Santorum said during a New Hampshire debate that he would deny illegal immigrants all government benefits: “We should not be offering to people, particularly those who broke the law to come here or overstayed their visa, we should not be offering government benefits.” Santorum favors legislation that would make English the official language of the United States and make immigrants learn it to come here
    http://immigration.about.com/od/immi...mmigration.htm

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