Romney backer: Don't expect his mind to be changed on immigration

[itzel 336]

I think this article just confirms what we all know, Romney wont be changing his mind on immigration. He should not receive the votes of our loved ones..

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

From this Andres Oppenheimer column in The Miami Herald yesterday on immigration:

Even top Republicans who disagree with Romney on some issues, such as House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, tell me that Romney is highly unlikely to change course if he gets to the White House.

In an interview last week, I asked Ros-Lehtinen how can she, as a Hispanic, support Romney’s “horrendous” — my word — stands on immigration.

I was referring to Romney’s opposition to the Dream Act that would grant a path to legal residence to up to 1.8 million students who were brought to this country as infants by their parents and were raised as Americans, or his call for seeking the “self-deportation” of 11 million undocumented immigrants, which many of us fear would amount to making life impossible for all Hispanics regardless of their legal status.

To my surprise, Ros-Lehtinen, a conservative Republican who supports Romney, told me: “I agree with you.

I am in a position that is opposite to that of Mitt Romney on immigration, totally. But I think that, in this election, the most important issues will be first the economy, then creating jobs, and third, the economy and creating jobs.”

Asked whether she believes Romney adopted hard-line positions to win over the ultra-conservative wing of his party, and that he will shift to the center if elected president, Ros-Lehtinen said, “Nobody should vote for Mitt Romney thinking that he will change his positions.” She added that nobody should cast a vote for Romney thinking that “he says x, but he will do y.”

“He says he does not support the Dream Act, and I wouldn’t want somebody to vote for Mitt Romney [thinking] that I and Mario Diaz-Balart [R-Miami], and others will make Mitt Romney change his mind. It’s not possible,” she said.

“Mitt Romney says he does not support the Dream Act, and I think he is a person who stands by what he says, and won’t change his mind,” she said.

Romney, who Democrats spent months hitting as a flip-flopper for positions he changed on abortion, has made avoiding new grounds for such a charge a staple of his general election campaign (as I reported a few months ago, he told Rupert Murdoch at a Ken Langone-hosted fundraiser that he wasn't going to be a flip-flopper on immigration). This comment from one of his most prominent Hispanic backers is consistent with that.

But it also is a reminder that the Republican Party, going forward, has a deficit with Hispanic voters that is problematic.

Source:http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/09/romney-backer-dont-expect-his-mind-to-be-changed-on-134189.html

[JoseG 383]

Yup, there's no reason for him to say he supports it. Obama is already going to get the majority of the Hispanic votes since he announced DACA. There is no reason for Romney to say he supports immigration to try to get the Hispanic votes because he will just lose the support of those against immigration and he won't win over the Hispanic voters anyways.