Roy Beck's e-mail to Michigan voters
As copied from the Tancredo for President unofficial blog (www.tancredo4prez.blogspot.com), below this paragraph is a copy of an e-mail sent by Roy Beck of NumbersUSA to Michigan voters. On the question of "How Good Are The Promises of GOP Candidates to Prevent Amnesties & Send Current Illegal Aliens Home?", Mr. Beck gives a rating of "EXCELLLENT" to Duncan Hunter, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney. He gives a rating of "GOOD" to Ron Paul. Mr. Beck gives a rating of "FAIR" to Mike Huckabee, a rating of "BAD" to Rudy Giuliani and a rating of "ABYSMAL" to John McCain.
DEAR MICHIGAN VOTERS CONCERNED ABOUT IMMIGRATION,
If stopping illegal immigration and preventing an amnesty are top priorities for you, the latest ratings in the right-hand column make it quite clear two candidates who don't deserve your vote in the Michigan Republican Presidential Primary on Tuesday.
As for who deserves your vote based on immigration ... all the other GOP candidates are much better in the details of their promises to stop any amnesty and to make the 12-20 million illegal aliens already here go back home. Look over their ratings for yourself.
(Since there are questions about whether Michigan's Democratic Primary will have any meaning, you Democrats -- and certainly you Independents -- may want to vote in the Republican contest to ensure that as many anti-amnesty votes are cast for anti-amnesty candidates as possible.)
You can view our ratings in 16 immigration categories for all Democratic and Republican candidates on the same page at:
Presidential Immigration Ratings
Please print out this Alert -- and also the GRID -- and share them with as many voters as possible. Post the copies on bulletin boards and hand out to others.
ROMNEY & THOMPSON HIGHLIGHT
McCAIN'S AMNESTY POSITION
I'm not sure I've seen a more clarifying moment on amnesty in the last year than the back-to-back comments by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) and Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) in Thursday night's debate in South Carolina.
Watch this illuminating exchange on:
Romney & McCain Video
Then watch Thompson's followup on:
Thompson Video
No candidate has done more advertising against amnesty or more raising of the issue in debates than Romney, who has constantly tried to make sure that nobody forgets McCain's role as the architect of two years of giant amnesty bills in Congress.
But in the South Carolina debate, it was the moderator who first put McCain on the spot: "Senator McCain, the president's push for immigration reform failed mainly because of disagreements over your plan for dealing with the 12 million people now here illegally. You say you've learned your lesson, you'd secure the borders first. OK. Then how would you deal with the illegals?"
McCain has avoided answering that question for months, and almost succeeded again Thursday night. But when you closely parse what he said, you can see the McCain Amnesty Position:
1. McCain believes there was nothing wrong with the Comprehensive Amnesty legislation that American citizens defeated in the Senate last spring.
2. McCain suggests that the reason citizens opposed his Comprehensive Amnesty bill was not because they oppose legalizing illegal aliens but because they don't trust the government to secure our borders.
3. McCain promises to secure our borders and to aggressively deport about 2 million illegal aliens who have gotten into additional trouble with the law.
4. McCain will allow all the rest of the 12-20 million illegal aliens to remain permanently in the United States -- at least, he refuses to say that any of them have to go home.
Romney's and Thompson's description of what they would do with the illegal aliens provided a great contrast that surely helped most watchers of the debate see that McCain remains the Amnesty King that he has been for years.
in this email:
AMNESTY RATINGS
How Good Are The Promises of GOP Candidates to Prevent Amnesties & Send Current Illegal Aliens Home?
Abysmal
# John McCain
Bad
# Rudy Giuliani
Fair
# Mike Huckabee
GOOD
# Ron Paul
EXCELLENT
# Mitt Romney
# Fred Thompson
# Duncan Hunter
NOTE: These ratings are explained at this web page. On that page, you can click on the photo of any candidate and see an entire page devoted to that person's immigration promises and past actions. The amnesty rating is based on promises both not to give illegal aliens a path to citizenship and to make them go home.
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actions in brief:
# Michiganders, please vote in your Primary on Tuesday.
# Michigan voters, please be sure that all your colleagues and friends know of John McCain's pro-amnesty record and promises.
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McCAIN RE-DEFINES 'AMNESTY' SO HE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK FOR REWARDS FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS
After his leadership for amnesties knocked him out of his front-runner status last spring, it seems like many Americans forgot about his role. How else to explain that Sen. McCain (R-Ariz.) has suddenly become the front-runner in the national polls for the Republican nomination?
Recent private polling that I've seen suggests that large numbers of voters who strongly want illegal aliens to go home are not aware that Sen. McCain intends to allow most of the illegal aliens to remain permanently in this country.
In part, that may be because McCain in nationally televised debates and in campaign stops has said that he has never -- and will never -- support "amnesty." It is difficult for even the most cynical voters to believe that a candidate would tell a direct lie in such public settings.
But McCain justifies his claims by re-defining what "amnesty" means. According to McCain, it isn't amnesty to allow illegal aliens to live here permanently and keep American jobs, if you make them pay a fine and learn English.
As Romney pointed out on last Sunday's talk shows, that is a mighty big reward for law-breaking, whatever you call it. And as Thompson said Sunday night, rewarding illegal aliens with the right to stay will just entice millions more to come.
We at NumbersUSA have kept track of all of Sen. McCain's efforts to flood American occupations and communities with foreign workers and their dependents.
To read a summary of McCain's immigration actions and links to the details, go here:
McCain's Preference for Illegal Aliens Over American Workers
I hope all the information that our NumbersUSA team has gathered for you on the GRID and Candidates pages will be helpful to you as you decide how to vote.
We will continue to modify the GRID as candidates change.
SINCERELY,
Roy Beck
