Issue Position: Immigration

Issue Position

I oppose talk about rounding up 11 million persons now in the United States and deporting them. I encourage people who engage in such talk to consider the cost of such an effort -- in financial, and in human terms - we must conserve these resources and not be wasteful.

I believe that a person lawfully in the United States, except without documents, who has contributed and been lawful here for a reasonable period of time, and who did not flee criminal prosecution in their country of origin, should be given a prompt, reasonable opportunity to achieve citizenship. A sensible roadmap to citizenship must exist.My opponent takes the opposite view.

I also believe a serious crackdown on U.S. employers who use contracts, or other arrangements to try to avoid responsibility and taxes while taking advantage of undocumented persons as their personnel in their businesses, is essential to police, and disincentivize illegal immigration these businesses engage in.

We must secure our boarders -- all boarders of the U.S. -- but we do not need to needlessly tax and spend to build a mega-billion dollar wall around the United States -- we can be smarter than this.

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