Washington Post
By Sean Sullivan
May 30, 2014
Mitt
Romney said Friday that he hopes an immigration reform measure will be
signed into law before the 2016 presidential election, a striking
posture considering his hard-line
stance in the immigration debate during his 2012 campaign for
president.
"I
do believe it's important for us, before the presidential contest in
2016, to finally have immigration reform in place," Romney said in Iowa,
according to the Des Moines
Register. "I just don't think it's healthy for the country to continue
to have this issue open and unresolved, particularly with so many
families that are waiting for the answers.
Romney
made the comment to reporters after a campaign stop for state Sen. Joni
Ernst (R), a candidate for U.S. Senate. He said that he hopes Congress
can pass a bill before
the fall, but "time is running out for that to happen."
When
he ran for president in 2o12, Romney advocated "self-deportation"
during the GOP primary as his prescription for reducing the number of
undocumented immigrants living
in the U.S. He won just 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in the general
election, faring worse than Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) four years
earlier.
After
the election, Romney told The Washington Post's Dan Balz that he was
surprised by the blowback to his "self deportation" line.
"I
thought of it as being a term that is used in the community of those
discussing immigration," Romney said. "I hadn't seen it as being a
negative term."
Romney
said Friday that undocumented immigrants "should not be given a special
pathway to citizenship or permanent residency," the Register reported.
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