Bloomberg
By Sahil Kapur
June 7, 2015
Republican
presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who opposes a path to
legalization for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the
U.S., stopped short Sunday
of calling for their deportation.
In
an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the former Pennsylvania senator
pressed his case for reducing legal and illegal immigration, arguing
that new immigrants harm wages
for recent immigrants and American workers.
"I
approach this as: what is in the best interests of America,
particularly American workers, and particularly those workers who are
not doing well in America?" he said,
adding that "we have more people living in this country who were not
born in this country than anytime in the history of this country."
“You require E-Verify.”
Former Senator Rick Santorum
So what would he do about the estimated 11 million people already in the country illegally?
"You just use E-Verify. You require E-Verify," Santorum said.
No path to legalization?
"No," he said.
E-Verify
is a program run by the Department of Homeland Security that lets
employers check if prospective hires are authorized to work in the
United States. Nearly half
a million employers used it as of 2013, according to DHS.
The
back-and-forth captures the tricky balance for Republicans on the
issue. Many conservative voters oppose giving undocumented immigrants
legal status, but Republican
politicians who agree with that view are loath to call for mass
deportation. American Action Forum, a conservative pro-immigration
group, estimates that it would take two decades and cost between roughly
$400 billion to $600 billion to deport them all.
"I
don't think anyone with a sense of reality thinks we're going to ship
11 million or 12 million people back to where they're from," former
Texas Governor Rick Perry,
now a Republican presidential candidate, said in February.
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