Mitt Romney actually admits he won’t overturn the order that’s permitting children of immigrants to stay here while applying for citizenship:
It took three-and-a-half months, but Mitt Romney has finally answered a very simple question: If you’re elected president, will you honor the executive order that Barack Obama issued granting legal status to potentially more than a million children of illegal immigrants?
“The people who have received the special visa that the president has put in place, which is a two-year visa, should expect that the visa would continue to be valid,” Romney told the Denver Post in an interview that was published late Monday night. “I’m not going to take something that they’ve purchased.”
This may seem like a rather obvious position to take, especially when you consider that the opposite view would involve revoking the legal status of children and possibly subjecting them to deportation. But Romney has – very awkwardly – tried to sidestep the entire question since mid-June, when Obama surprised the political world with his executive order.
“I’m not going to take away someting that they’ve purchased.” Said like the Capitalist ideologue that he is. Like when he said we (Bain Capital) buy and setup companies so that in six or seven years we can “harvest them” for a substantial profit. For Mr. 1% it’s always all about the buck. It’s never about the human costs involved.