Statements about Immigration
Says Newt Gingrich "supports amnesty for illegal immigrants."
Newt Gingrich’s immigration plan offers "a new doorway to amnesty."
Says Apple CEO Steve Jobs told President Obama that the company moved factories to China because it needed 30,000 engineers.
President Obama’s uncle and aunt "are illegal aliens ... who've been allowed to stay in this country."
"Over the last several years, 40 percent (of) the jobs created in Texas were created for illegal aliens."
Between 2000 and 2010, the illegal immigrant population of Texas increased by 60 percent, while California and Florida had "no increase."
"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
Says that when President Obama visited El Paso, he "pronounced that the border with Mexico and the United States was safer than it ever was in history."
"Forty percent of the Fortune 500 were started either by immigrants or children of immigrants."
The Obama administration increased the deportation of illegal immigrants convicted of crimes by 70 percent.
"The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004."
The DREAM Act the "would give amnesty to over two million illegal aliens."
Sen. Harry Reid voted "against declaring English our national language, twice."
Sen. Barbara Boxer "voted against immigration reform to permit (Hispanic immigrants) people to come here legally to work."
Harry Reid has voted "to give special tax breaks to illegal aliens."
Harry Reid has voted "to give illegals Social Security benefits even for the time they were here illegally."
The Richardson-Denish administration "gave" 50,000 driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in New Mexico.
"Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded."
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