re: #61 ElCapitanAmerica

Sorry, I’m just finished letting Romney get away with lies. Here’s the full statement he made:

KING: — he told me this week here in Mesa — these are his words — “it’s called political garbage, if you will, to not arrest illegals already in this country.”

You’ve talked to the governor about self-deportation, if businesses do their job, asking for the right documents, the people will leave. What about arresting? Should there be aggressive, seek them out, find them and arrest them as the Sheriff Arpaio advocates?

ROMNEY: You know, I think you see a model in Arizona. They passed a law here that says — that says that people who come here and try and find work, that the employer is required to look them up on e- verify. This e-verify system allows employers in Arizona to know who’s here legally and who’s not here legally.

And as a result of e-verify being put in place, the number of people in Arizona that are here illegally has dropped by some 14 percent, where the national average has only gone down 7 percent. So going back to the question that was asked, the right course for America is to drop these lawsuits against Arizona and other states that are trying to do the job Barack Obama isn’t doing.

He’s clearly talking about the WHOLE Arizona immigration model when he says the lawsuits should be dropped. If you want to give him a pass because you can parse the words to make it seem like he wasn’t saying this, that’s your prerogative — but he made it extremely clear that he supports SB1070, and the main author of that bill, Kris Kobach, is an adviser to his campaign.